Archives for All Posts Tagged with “reviews”

Wordpress 2.5

WordPress 2.5 was released Saturday and I upgraded this evening. I was able to play around with the new admin interface before upgrading thanks to Chris Johnston’s WP Demo Site. The interface is much more streamlined and quite slick with plenty of whitespace and a light blue color scheme:

So far I can only [...]

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Which one of you didn’t like the in-line post preview in WordPress?

I’m always a little late to update things, so I only recently (as in, last week) updated to WordPress 2.2 and, as I haven’t really been posting much, I haven’t noticed all the changes in this version yet. I did, however, notice while attempting to post the other day* the in-line post preview was [...]

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Always Read the Book First

I sat down to do a bit of homework and started reading Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives, thinking I’d get some reading done now and have less to do later next week or worse, over Spring Break. An hour and a half later I’ve finished the book and all I can think is, Fuck [...]

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Onward Christian Toy Soldiers

The Canadian® got hold of a copy of Jesus Camp. From the film’s website:
A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement. Jesus Camp follows a group of young children to Pastor [...]

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Helping Women

I picked up a copy of the movie Vera Drake (2004) from the county library the other day and this afternoon I sat down and watched it. The tagline reads: “Wife. Mother. Criminal.” It isn’t so flippant or sinister as the box may lead you to believe. Set in 1950’s [...]

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