kawehdashti.com

I have experimented with Intense Debate for a while now, as their commenting system looks tremendously promising. They have just been acquired by Automattic, the wordpress people.

It comes as a plug-in that syncs the comments on any given blog with their servers. Some sort of automated comment back-up, I guess. The plug-in features comment threading (comments appear as conversations, like in Gmail, not as chronological lists), replying to comments by email and importing and exporting comments to other commenting systems. So far so good. I really like it.

However, there does not appear to be a CSS file and it actually says on their website that they don’t recommend messing around with the CSS as the plug-in is in active development.

As Hugh has already pointed out, the design looked a little messed up. Thanks to Enzo, who suggested a small addition to our own little stylesheet, this issues has now been resolved and the comments no longer break the layout of the website.

So, no excuses, knock yourself out comment away.

Technorati Tags: automattic, comments, css, design, enzo, friends, hugh, intense debate, kawehdashti.com, wordpress

At 4am CNN officially projected Barack Obama the 44th US President, defeating John McCain.

Technorati Tags: barack obama, election, john mccain, president, us, vote, win

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts

I downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 a couple of days ago and today finally found the time to burn it to CD to try out the Live CD.

Hugh suggested that Broadcom Wifi might now work in Ubuntu without requiring all the fiddling stuff that has so far kept me from using Linux.

Everything worked fine until, somewhat expectantly, I tried to access the Internet. When I tried to add my wifi network (because it was not detected automatically) the network settings window crashed and needed to be force quit. The second time round it worked alright and allowed me to add the details of a wifi network. However, it did nothing.

I am willing to concede that this may simply be because Ubuntu was not installed, but only running from live CD.

However, I am not going to install Ubuntu unless I can be 100% sure that I can use the Internet without requiring a degree in fiddling.

Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Technorati Tags: broadcom, fiddle, friends, hugh, linux, os, ubuntu, wifi

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts

I have begun to write my first own WordPress Theme. It is based on the Starkers Blank Development Theme by Elliot Jay Stocks.

The beginnings are there. The header is as good as finished. You can sneak a peak at my other site.

Let me know what you think.

Addendum: We are running on Wordpress 2.7 Beta 1 now by the way!

Technorati Tags: 2.7 Beta 1, development, internet, kaweh.co.uk, php, themes, wordpress

I have upgraded my WordPress to version 2.6.3 and I expect that the results will be completely unnoticeable. Yes I know, it has been available for some time and I should have upgraded earlier. I was simply too emotionally attached to the previous version.

Meanwhile I am looking forward to version 2.7, which promises many great enhancements as well as a new Admin Interface.

Oh well, I get excited easily these days. Whoohooo!

Can I have a cookie now, please?

Talking about excitement, as there are now so many wonderful JADE People in London we should have some sort of massive get-together. You know, the kind where everybody drinks lots of adult beverages.

Technorati Tags: friends, infrastructure, internet, jade, kawehdashti.com, london, web, wordpress