Anthology of Ideas

INAP has waited over a month to have a few bugs fixed and today it finally gets its wish. There are no major features added, but a few very annoying bugs were fixed, a couple minor features were added and all support for WordPress 2.0 has been removed. I’m going to get at least a couple people wondering why I removed WP 2.0 support and quite simply it was holding me back.

Here is another small modified plugin that auto-escapes your code, nicely displays line numbers and uses valid XHTML. This plugin is based off of SemCodeFix, and adds many of the features I wanted in my code plugin. Download: Wordpress Code Escape Directions: Download the file and save it as a .php file. Upload to your plugins directory. Activate it. You may optionally choose to add the following style information to your theme’s style.css.

The Future Posts Calendar plugin has been updated to version 0.5. It is now completely XHTML valid, can be used on the post page, as a widget or added to the dashboard.

Chopin’s story expertly takes the average book and succinctly boils it down to two pages of rapid emotions and events. While the average writer would have felt a need to develop events prior to the story to allow the reader a full and developed sense of the personalities of the characters, Chopin instead says this is what you need to know, and you know what to do with it. The reader is given a short snapshot of a person: (wife, weak heart, young, pretty, unhappy, in most likely a semi-arranged marriage) and a range of emotions: (shock, surprise, grief, realization, elation, and triumph).

“Cold Mountain” is the story of a confederate soldier named Inman and his journey back to his homeland after years of fighting in the civil war, along the way he meets many interesting personalities some benign some malevolent. The second focus of the story is on Inman’s lover Ada and her struggle to learn how to live without her father, Inman and servants. “The Odyssey” is the story of an Ithacan king named Odysseus and his journey back to his homeland after years of fighting in the Trojan War, along the way he meets many interesting personalities some benign and some malevolent.

To tell the truth this was one of the few books that I entirely disliked the style they were written in. It was not the magical qualities of the story that made it bad, the story was nice, but the style was distracting and scatter-brained. It felt like I was reading a normal book and every other paragraph I looked at a line from a cookbook. In most areas the recipes were not even seamlessly brought into the story, instead they were just stuck in a few sentences here and there.