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Month: August 2004
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WordPress Stuff
A collection of assorted WordPress stuff, for reference when the time comes to customize it for some projects:
- Thumbnail HTML addition for upload.php fixes a minor annoyance with image upload.
- Hebrew localization of the WordPress interface by Tomer Cohen.
- Faking it: WordPress as CMS explains a hack that can be used to filter the posts shown in a page, according to categories. There’s a more ambitious(?) solution to the same need, The Show Categories plugin.
- tutorial on writing plugins, and the Plugin API reference.
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Maddoc of Merimna
Time to break-up the monotony of this blog with a picture. Here’s a Trump that Amir Arad has done for my character in the new Amber campaign we both just started playing in, run by Joy Bartov. He (the character) is called Maddoc, and so far the highlight of his career was managing to insult Benedict on their first meeting.
Jeez. All I did was demand that he "Explain!". My players do that all the time to my NPCs…
Last Saturday I had lunch at my parents with my brother, my sister and their family. My brother’s friend, Gillian, a photographer from New York was there. She was in Israel to photograph Sharon for the New York Times (this was the second time she’d come over for that assignment: the last time, after a big hassle with the security checks, she was barred from meeting Sharon because her usual mini-skirt was deemed "inappropriate").
Anyway, as I sat down my mother said that Gillian had just been telling them about going to Boston (where I’m going for a Science Fiction convention), where she had been to take pictures for an article in Newsweek about transgendered people. My mother asked if I’d heard of the word "Hir".
Sure, I said, that’s a gender-neutral pronoun.
Gillian looked at me wide-eyed and asked how on earth I knew that.
Well, I replied glibbly, several science ficition stories have tried to have a protagonist of neutral gender…
Sometimes I love being the geek.
If I’m mentioning Gillian in the blog, and since the New York Times photo will vanish in a week, and isn’t that interesting anyway, I’ll link to her Photo essay on the victims of terrorism (the pictures were also featured in a New York Times article titled The Maimed, which I found copied around the Internet). Everyday portraits touched by abnormal violence.