Hi, I’m Joey. I’m a 40-something software engineer (read: big nerd) in Salt Lake City. When I grow up I’d like to be a seminary professor (read: even bigger nerd).
I must say, the dashboard in WordPress 1.5 is a welcome addition. I’m not sure what all the hype is about, though, since Movable Type has had the same thing for as long as I can remember.
I had a few quibbles with how it was originally configured, so I’ve made a few modifications to mine.
I’m upgrading the site to WordPress 1.5. I’ve hit some snags getting comments to work with the hacks I introduced in version 1.2. I’m trying to iron them all out, but in the mean time, please bear with me.
I may keep it set on the Kubrick theme (except when I’m testing things, of course) until I get my usual theme working correctly.
An LDS young woman visited my Sunday School class yesterday. She has submitted her mission papers in anticipation of serving a mission, but hasn’t yet received her call1. She was invited to church by a co-worker, who is a member of our class.
The class is currently studying couples from the Old Testament, and yesterday we discussed the relationship of Hosea and Gomer as told in Hosea 1-3. This chapter draws numerous parallels to God’s relationship with man and centers around the concept of unconditional forgiveness.
Notice: A newer version of LDS Linker has been released.
LDS Linker is a WordPress plugin that changes any LDS scripture reference into a hyperlink pointing to the Internet Edition of the LDS Scriptures.
Winslow over at Winslow’s Lair is trying to “test his trackback feature”:http://winslowslair.mind-intentions.info/blog/archives/2005/02/10/testing-pingbacks/. In the interest of science, I’m sending one your way, my friend. Godspeed, little ping.
Notice: A newer version of LDS Linker has been released.
Software is bound to have bugs, and my code is no exception (in fact, it’s probably buggier than most). After seeing my plugin in action on a few blogs, I noticed some D&C references weren’t getting linked.
It seems that, by default, WordPress encodes ampersands with the & entity rather than the & entity I was expecting. My Textile 2 plugin uses &, so the problem never came up in my testing.
Without further ado, here’s the new version:
Again, don’t hesitate to submit your feedback. 
I got an interesting announcement from the “Salt Lake City Weblogger Meetup”:http://blog.meetup.com/144/ in my email yesterday. Apparently, Utah is one of only three states using RSS to circulate official state domuments. The email says it better than I could:
When I was in high school I thought it was really cool to collect email addresses. It started with “net@ddress”:http://www.netaddress.com, which, to my knowledge, was one of the first to offer free email. My dad discovered it and quickly signed my whole family up with free accounts.
I’m playing with my color scheme today. If you think it looks like puke, wait a few minutes and refresh the page. I should be done sometime this afternoon. Thanks for your patience.
Edit @ 3:06 pm: Done. I was going for a crisp, clean, bright look. What do you think?
Edit @ 10:32 pm: Depending on which computer I load it at, I’m still seeing the old beige colored sidebar. You may need to clear your cache or do a Ctrl + F5 to see the new colors. If the sidebar is white, you’ve got it.
One of my favorite bloggers has “noticed the Homestar Runner Wiki”:http://blogs4god.com/linker/article.php?a=001881. MeanDean (Dean Peters) of “blogs4God.com”:http://www.blogs4god.com and “Heal Your Church Web Site”:http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com comments:
bq. Ain’t technology grand?! Lookie what I found … the Homestar Runner Wiki, a collaborative knowledge-base dedicated to the Homestar Runner Flash cartoons created by The Brothers Chaps. We are currently working on 900 articles. COooool!