Everything Merlin said about related posts plugins and social media icons in this week’s After Dark was totally spot on. If you’ve got a blog and can spare a minute and thirty seconds, you shouldn’t hesitate to give it a listen.
Six Years On…
It’s weird how, if you really think about it, you never really feel like yourself until you meet the person who completes you.
The me that Sarah met, face to face, for the first time six years ago was a broken man. Unhappy about so many things. Feeling lost and listless and just sort of drifting through life as a childish, self-centered, slob.
But she gave me something to be happy about. She cradled and loved this broken fool until I became a better man. It took a good long while, but she held on and never gave up on me.
Now I know that sometimes I’m (still) not the best man that I could be. But I always try to do better. For her. Considering what she’s done for me though, trying doesn’t seem like enough. I owe her so much more than that.
That’s why I’m writing this post. Consider it a public declaration, if you will, of my plan to be not just a better man. For all the love and kindness and patience and heart you’ve shown me over the years, Sarah, I’m going to be the best man.
Not the best man possible. That shit won’t fly. The best man. Period.
It really is the least I can do considering everything you’ve done, and continue to do, for me…
Happy Valentine’s Day, my love. My heart is forever yours.
Out of 2732 user submissions, I just collected and added 35 words & phrases to Hipster Ipsum.
That means that only 1.281% of the stuff that people gave me was actually usable. The rest of it was names of people, inside jokes, repeats of stuff already in the database and a staggering amount of slurs and insults.
So thanks for nothing, crowdsourcing…
Shit People Say in LA
This one’s for the locals. And the people who don’t live here but still like to laugh at the locals. [via]
Go Duck Yourself
Following Ben Brooks’ lead, I’ve decided to replace my site’s search engine with DuckDuckGo. But all of the solutions he’s linked up have been a little fiddly and require editing your theme files. And while I’m okay with doing that, I realize a lot of folks probably aren’t.
So I pulled together this little bit of form code:
All you need to do is change “example.com” to your domain and drop the code in a text widget. Like this:
Easy, right? Now nothing is stopping you from using DuckDuckGo as your WordPress site’s search engine!
Like the new theme? Want to play with it on your site? Well, it’s not in the WordPress theme directory just yet. But it is in Automattic’s SVN repository…
Grab Reddle via SVN and give it a whirl. And if you want to see what it’s capable of (or I’ve managed to change my theme) check out the demo at WordPress.com.
Hello
I’m just going to go ahead and leave this here. You should probably watch it when you have a minute… (Thanks Sarah!)
You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be
I need to remind myself of this sometimes. Especially when life gets complicated and I’m feeling overwhelmed.
Thanks for making that, Morley.
Swissted
Huh. A little Hipster Ipsum made it into Android’s Design Pattern documentation.
