Monthly Archives: May 2010

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WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features

WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features

The two items that sound most interesting are:

Custom post types

You might even want to turn your WordPress site into something more like Tumblr.  This will be easy to do in WordPress 3.0 simply by creating custom post types for Text, Photo, Quote, Link, Chat, Audio, and Video.

Menu Management

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What happens after the newspaper closes

High Country News: Former Rockey Mountain News reporter reflects on his time since the paper closed.

Some mornings I still wake full of resentment about the newspaper’s closing. I’m still feeling divorce aftershock. Three months ago, I stopped paying the mortgage. Last winter, to survive, I sold off some of my camera equipment. I’m still not sure how I will make ends meet.

But on most mornings I feel like the luckiest man alive. If I was still employed at the Rocky, I would have never written a novel or traveled to Africa; I wouldn’t have floated the San Juan and Salmon rivers with my sons, worked for Mrs. Li, hammered nails, fired up a chainsaw, or looked at a hundred happy dancing brides.

by eubie

Wondering as I walk

From talking a walk in the spring.
  • what caused Thursday stock spike
  • bees and how we depend on them
  • bikes and mass transit for commuting
  • hiking
  • archery
  • Ubuntu and other ways for low-cost, accessible computing
  • woodworking
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Percent of births to unmarried women

Suggested from WSJ article: Our Big Problem

For much of the population, family meals are a ritual of the past: Thirty-six percent of British children never eat a meal at a table with another member of their family or household (we have now passed the milestone long desired by radical social reformers, more children being born illegitimate than legitimate).

Percent of births to unmarried women in the United States

Chart source is National Vital Statistics Report: Births: Final Data for 2006. PDF