New WordPress Plugin: Footnotes

This beast has been upgraded for WordPress 2.0.x. Yesterday while working on a draft of a future post I decided footnotes would be useful. After recently setting up a wiki1 I very much like how DokuWiki handles footnotes2. So I figured I'd knock together a quick plugin for WordPress to handle footnotes in a similar way. One drawback I found to the DokuWiki method is that you can't refer to the same footnote in more than one place, so I made it so you could.3 After finishing the coding late last night, I decided that given how simple it turned... more

Small Penis Syndrome really does exist

I had a person announce to me today some time ago: "I'm worth about 10 Million". Pffftt....what ever!

God damn right it's a beautiful day!

I think I have said this on here before (and I've certainly said it off here) but I must say it again. The Eels are a great band. I recently bought their 2000 release Dasies of the Galaxy (pictured) to add to my collection of other Eels albums, including Electroshock Blues, Souljacker and Shootenanny. I'm about to go and buy their most recent full album, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations which E describes as "a love letter to life itself, in all its beautiful, horrible glory." If I'm feeling particularly wealthy when I get there I might even buy a ... more

Aidan: Model

A short while ago, Aidan and I were having coffee or going to the gym, as we regularly do, when he casually mentions that "yesterday I spent my lunch hour at a photo shoot." Having never previously known Aidan to have a photo shoot, I figured he meant he went out to a site somewhere and took some photos of a building (as young architects do on a fairly regular basis). As the conversation progressed it became apparent that, in fact, he had been called up by a photographer who asked him if he would like to be a model ... more

Ego

I did an ego Google this morning and was pleasantly surprised. The results of searching for my first and last name without quotes showed only one (the third last) result that wasn't about me on the first page. A Google for my full name with quotes was even more impressive: