MenZa’s Weblog

I was just browsing through a few blogs today, when I read about Zooomr offering free Pro accounts–if you have a blog, with at least one Zooomr photo on it.
Thus, I’m posting one:

Here we go–my latest desktop.
If you want to grab this offer and use it, here’s the link.
Now I’m gonna go and claim my free pro account, though I think I’ll stick to flickr most of the time ;)

I’ve decided to take part in the 2006 Blogathon event.
This means I’ll be blogging for a charity, I chose Association for International Cancer Research, mainly because a friend passed away from cancer, not long ago. He was 17 (I believe).

I’ll be writing one post every thirty minutes for twenty four hours, totalling a massive 48 blog posts in 24 hours.

I’m sure my blog’ll be the most boring, and there’s a good chance I’ll fall asleep. I’m just gonna do the whole thing standing, so if I fall asleep I’m gonna wake up when I hit the ground ;).

Right, July 29 at 9:00am, EST time (can anyone tell me what that is in UTC?). Be there–and watch me.

And please, please:

Consider making a contribution!

Stay tuned for more info ;)

Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress, has announced WordCamp; and event where WordPressers meet and gather experiences, eat and discuss WordPress.

Damn I’d like to go, but it’s almost $1000 for a return flight.

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Really fresh–nice and limey.

I’ve long been a sucker for green–and I’ve long wanted to have a green WP theme–so here is a template, heavily customised from another customised template, of “Blue Kino” (I’m too lazy to sport a link).
Anyway, the site is very buggy for the time (a lot of things really annoyed me, like the Gravatars, which still don’t align properly.

You’ll have to excuse these flaws for a couple of weeks, because I’ll be on holiday from tomorrow and two weeks ahead (returning next Friday).

Thanks to Nick Dienstbier for sending the initial template and the logo and Indranil Dasgupta & Geoffrey Sneddon for helping me with various XHTML/CSS problems.

Still, various parts of the site are completely outdated (e.g. About, Colophon), and need tweaking. You’ll most likely experience a few bugs while on the site.

I don’t care; it still looks kickass.

Well, top-of-the-list, to be infact. After being online on the WP Theme Viewer for a few days, my theme has had an overwhelming number of downloads–around 500.

In other news, I just received a 10 in Maths–10 being something like A/B+ in American marks.

Oh yeah, and I’m working on a new theme I hope I can have WordPress’ified, as I’m starting to get bored with this look.

The WordPress community has had to endure sad third-party theme viewers for a long time.

This is no longer the case. Thomas Silkjær, creator of webdesignbook.net and a number of WordPress themes has been at it, coding the new theme viewer.

A small team, including me, has worked hard for the past few days to tag the astounding 472 themes.

If you’re looking for a new theme for your WordPress install, the theme viewer can be found on themes.wordpress.net.

…is the name of a Firefox-based browser, which has just been released in its first beta–and what a beta it is.

Featuring blogging tools for WordPress, Movable Type and many more, flickr support for images and del.icio.us bookmarking.
The first beta has been released for Windows, Linux and Mac alike, so there’s no excuse for not getting it and trying it out yourself!

It’s good looking, and it works like a treat. Check it out.

I’ve decided to finally release the theme I used to have on my blog, now dubbed “Mesozoic”.
I’ve poured tonnes of work and manhours into this theme, and I’m quite excited with the outcome.

I won’t be providing any lengthy description now, but you’ll need a bit of practical information :)

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Gilles Marlet is currently working on a port to the Dotclear CMS, which I’ll add to my website once it’s done.
The download can be found here.

If you like it, please consider donating to cover hosting and caffeine expenses, or buy me something from my Amazon wishlist.

Thanks :)

After an extensive period with comments disabled, they are hereby reopened.
The reason they were closed before, was becase that part of the template wasn’t finished.

Being the mate he is, Indranil stepped in and did the necessary code, taking hard criticism from me (if you haven’t noticed, I’m a perfectionist), but finishing it at last.
He’s also responsible for WordPress’ing the rest of the site, by working from a single XHTML template I created.
I couldn’t be more grateful–now, comment away.