Monthly Archives: May 2011
Early Birthday Gift from StumbleUpon
Happy 8th anniversary to @wordpress & @wordpressdotcom! Did u know you can stumble through the best of WordPress blogs: http://su.pr/1K5LSA—
(@StumbleUpon) May 28, 2011
Even though WordPress.com has a couple of months to go before its 6th birthday, forgive StumbleUpon the small faux pas just for the cool present of the WordPress.com Stumble browser bar.
Go discover something new and Stumble your favorites.
Oh! And a Happy (belated) 8th Birthday to WordPress.org. Thank you Mike and Matt. Without you, we wouldn’t be here. 
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So Long & Thanks for All the Fish
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow around you
So long, so long and thanks for all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and thanks for all the fish
If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasty fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all have learned to sing
Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side
In life’s great gene pool
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and thanks for all the fish
via Lyrics, So Long & Thanks for All the Fish Lyrics >>
Other Towel Day posts you may also enjoy:
Happy Towel Day! (from Yarnaholic Confessions)
Towel Day 2008 (from this blog)
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (a flickr set)
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WordPress.com says “Goodbye IE6″
This past week WordPress.com rolled out a spiffy Dashboard interface update to its users and with it officially dropped support for IE6*. Don’t get me wrong. If you’ve read my earlier post on IE6, you know this makes me happy, although it seems not everyone is.(What is it they say about behind every joke lies a kernel of truth?)
I love the new Dashboard, a lot. It’s cleaner, clearer and much easier to navigate. The only real caveat I have is when using it on my netbook. Before the redesign there were two points along the left menu sidebar where one could collapse the menus to icons to reclaim some screen real estate (very important when using a netbook). Now there’s only one and it’s at the very bottom of the menu list. If there are menus open on my netbook, even using Chrome, which has more screen real estate above the fold to begin with, this can involve a serious bit of scrolling to get to. Reintroducing that second collapse point above the fold would make a great redesign perfect.
The Admin bar also has gain a new feature when you are in your Dashboard. The button that was located at the top of the screen where you could click to straight away write a new post or page has been replaced by a new button in the Admin bar instead. A very simple, but elegant, functional change.
But the real excitement in the Dashboard redesign announcement was saved for the new “Distraction-free” writing mode when in the Visual or HTML Editor. Distraction free it is. Nothing but you, your keyboard and, except for your words, a near-empty screen. Being someone who is more visual than literal this is going to take me some time to get used to!
(Also hidden in that new Support doc was an Easter Egg in the shape of “SimplyNoise“. The “brown noise” with low oscillation is close enough to the sound of ocean surf at the beach, a sound I sorely missed when we were living abroad and landlocked, and am completely addicted to.)
*Updated: If you are one of those few people still using IE6, check out “Browse Happy” to review different browser choices and upgrade your Internet experience.
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And in Today’s Weather…
May 14th and we’ve had rain all morning after a thunderstorm last night . If you’re local, you know just how unusual this is.
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- Not wet paint, but wet!
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- Happy as a …
Regardless:
- Flipflops were out in full force
- The Tropical Garden at Ganei Yehoshua was oddly closed due to the rain. What’s the point of that? Rain is what tropical gardens do best!
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Galei Tzahal- Soon We’ll Become A Song
Every year in Israel we experience the manic switch from the depths of sorrow remembering and honoring those who fell in terrorist action and our armed forces who died while serving their country so that we could rejoice in Independence Day, which falls on the day following Remembrance Day.
Army Radio is again this year repeating its project, “Soon We’ll Become a Song“, which pairs poetry written by some of these young fallen soldiers with Israeli composers and musicians. The entire project will be broadcast (in Hebrew) on Army Radio, Monday afternoon (Israel time), the time we start to transition from sorrow to joy.
