Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• January 3rd, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor: A WordPress Plugin

  I’ve just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first WordPress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to [...]

• January 2nd, 2007

  Greencode WordPress Theme

  I’ve finished putting together my first WordPress theme, which I’ve named Greencode. It’s the same one I use on this site, so this is your chance to be a little more like me; go ahead and download it here.

• December 28th, 2006

  America’s Next Top Remodel

  My wife and I recently remodeled our back entryway, partly because it needed it and partly as preparation for remodeling our kitchen. We replaced 25 year-old linoleum with laminate flooring, stripped off the textured wallpaper, painted the walls and doors (after repairing some pretty big holes and cracks hidden by the wallpaper), and put up [...]

• December 12th, 2006

  Self Defense

  Derrick Comedy does some hilarious stuff. This one is worth watching for the scene transitions alone:

• December 5th, 2006

  TV Squad Daily: The Smart Choice

  If you’re like me and don’t have time to watch a lot of TV, but you still want to be able to speak eruditely on such topics as K-Fed’s latest faux pas or Conan’s latest bon mot, check out the TV Squad Daily Vodcast. Two minutes of TV Squad Daily will leave you refreshed, informed, [...]

• November 20th, 2006

  Mosaic? More like No-way-ic. My review of the Mosaic Hotel in Beverly Hills.

  I stayed at the Mosaic Hotel in Beverly Hills last week I was in southern California for a quasi-quarterly Netscape codejam. It is a boutique hotel, meaning that it supposedly offers a higher, more personal level of service than a big chain like Mariott or the Four Seasons. By my so subtly-placed “supposedly,” you can [...]

• October 22nd, 2006

  Why I love Bittorrent

  Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via the University of Minnesota’s fat pipes: 4 hours Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via 37 different users using uTorrent: 21 minutes

• October 1st, 2006

  Validation

  Just noticed from my referrer logs that Google is linking to my OPML Support for Firefox extension from its Google Reader FAQ. Neat.