I have no stickr’s! Scoble makes me feel like I am nothing.

I remember however when my grandmother had an old trunk that she had been around the world with. It had a sticker from every location visited, but I think there was an actual purpose because many of them were routing stickers I think. That progressed into the motorhome with state stickers on the back I think. I’ll just have to work on it.

I am not much of a word smith myself. There are however some great sites available to help the slower aword like myself:

• WordSmyth: will allow you to look at words that surround your word alphabetically
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary: give it your concept and it will suggest words … amazing for when you are stuck
• Wordspy: from the guy who got me started on the net, you can look up words by categories and he has current definitions, for example look at blog under computers
• Thesauras.com: find the synonym for the word you have

If you are not supposed to really use tables to control layout, then you should be able to use css to control layout. However, to get a table like alignment, nothing beats a table … until now perhaps. Here is a solution that allows you to get alignment of items using div’s with css. Table free design again becomes a reality.

WordPress 2.0.1 was just released, but has a bug in the RSS coding the will prevent the proper handling of the post rss. Comment rss feeds are working. It is easy to fix, although having things like this broken are very frustrating especially for people like me that maintain perhaps 20 or so WordPress installs. I now need to go back to each of them and make the correction.

The official RSS bug track is here. I find that the lack of notices from WordPress leaves me struggling sometimes. A bug of this magnitude should be sent do all people who request notices from WordPress. Also, give the security lapses in the 1.5 release (that allowed someone to actually upload content to your server), not updating to a current version while waiting for bugs to be worked out was not a good option. I hope they do better in the future.

The fix for those who find the bug track hard to follow is just the replacement of one line of code. They show the current line with a minus in front of it and the next line with a plus (minus the plus … no pun intended) is inserted. It is line 1324 in the code of wp-includes/classes.php.

Simple fix, but in my humble opinion significant enough to warrant a release of 4.0.2.

Is there a list somewhere I am missing where people notify you of such significant breaks in the program so you can fix them? If so please tell me about it.

I am looking forward to the opportunity to have a look at Windows Vista soon. I have been contracted to tech-edit a Vista How To Book for a publisher I am fortunate to work for from time to time, with one of my favorite authors. So I am tuning my ear to the ground regarding the Vista roadmap.

Much has been said about Vista, including that you will want it for security of for no other reason. Some, like this article on Slashdot are rumoring that it will not run on many computers because of its aero glass graphics. That is apparently myth accourding to Mr. Microsoft Jr., the Scobelizer who reports that Vista runs fine on his machine that lacks the aero glass rendering ability. In fact just a day or two ago he was glowing about how well it runs on his platform.

I cannot wait to get a copy of the beta in my hands and kick it around a bit.

So I sit here watching the tele and it suggests that I go to joinbode.com. I figure sure, why not, so I visit. It is an odd site. What is the point of it? I find something I can click on (a chairlift) and it tells me I get a star. Woopie, back to piano lessons? I get a star. What is the point of this site? I have no idea. I try his myspace.com site. Server too busy. On to something worthwhile. Bye Bode. I guess I’ll never know what it is about … and I am pretty sure I don’t care. When I get to a site where the purpose is not clear, I clear out.

I was cruising around the net today and come to the page of RussellBeattie. The guy is a nerd — sorry Rudoublesedoublel. He has pictures to prove it. He decides one day to dump comments from his blog to simplify life. We did the same thing here, only it was accidental (we broke our captcha by accident — I’ll fix it one day soon). The sad part however is that …. nobody even told us. There is no love, so Russ, be happy anyone cared.