Writ of Mainprize

I’ve rewritten the original Gallery Link plugin to be compatible with Movable Type 4 and with Gallery 2 (Sorry, Gallery 1 users, my plugin is not compatible. The old one should still work for you.)
I’m still working out the bugs. Watch this space, I will release the plugin shortly. After switching to Wordpress, my enthusiasm for Movable Type has wained. Sorry. Send me a line if you are interested in the code set.

The template module system is much more refined in MT4 compared to MT3.x, but the navigation in the Dashboard is a little bit cumbersome. The navigation in MT4.2 is much better, (phew!). There is also a dashboard plugin called Template Shelf that might be useful. I tried it in MT4.1 and it made it much easier to jump between various modules and templates. I’m not sure it is compatible with MT4.2, and its benefit may only be incremental over the new navigation layout.

It all began a few weeks ago. I had decided that I wanted to make my website more uniform in its look-and-feel. I was pleased with how my Mainprize Gallery looked. It is powered by Gallery 2 and uses a Carbon theme which has a very clean layout and a dark background that is very good for viewing photos. Even though a dark background isn’t generally ideal for a weblog, I thought that it would be neat to see if I could make a Movable Type blog look like my …

This is pretty neat, if you’ve got the time you can build your own “Hobbit House” just like this family did! Not only that, but it’s an eco-friendly house too! Although Simon Dale may have been motivated a little by Frodo and Samwise, the project was really motivated by the idea of reducing the ecological footprint and living in as self sufficient and self reliable way as possible. The house was also very low cost (roughly $6000 CAN) which might be motivation enough for some people. I wonder if such …

We just finished Season 1 of Heroes about a week ago and we just loved it! I think this is in part, because it is a fresh take on the superhero genre and it creates (mostly) realistic people trying to deal with extraordinary things. The show keeps you guessing, trying to figure out who is “good” or “bad”, and generally gives you the impression that everyone falls into some shade of grey. The show pulls no punches and merrily kills off what appear to be main characters, possibly even the …