blake johnson

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 this evening. I am not really sure why I went to the trouble of doing this, since I am now a contributor to the Habari project, and would like to get my blog on that new platform soon. However, I wanted to see what all the fuss was with the new admin interface for Wordpress. I guess I am not as offended by the blue tones of the admin as other designers seem to be. In fact, I find it quite soothing. Still, I don’t like that category selection is now “below the fold”. And the tagging interface seems to be begging for tag clutter, since it doesn’t list any previously used tags.

The reason I did not immediately jump to Habari is that I am still rather fond of K2’s advanced search and navigation features, and these have not made their way to Habari yet. Ironically, these features now seem to be broken after upgrading to WP 2.5. This may mean that I am going to change over to Habari sooner rather than later.

UPDATE: I got the search and nav features to work again by following the suggestion in this thread.

An article in Physics Today led me to a neat page on NASA’s website about various theories of lift. It shows how many of the explanations common to popular literature are incorrect through a serious of java applets that let you see what is actually going on. Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool.

I don’t really know how it happened (perhaps because we have a bag of cracked wiffle balls lying around the lab?), but I have started juggling again. I am working on 4 balls: I am up to 17 catches and hoping for quick progress.