Over at the Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood has mentioned exactly what he thinks of URL shorteners.  Oddly enough, even though I’m writing a plugin that requires the use of a shortener, I agree with him. Shorteners, although convenient and necessary for microblogging, have a tendency to obscure the linking structure that makes the web usable.  [...]

I’ve decided to try my hand at WordPress plugin writing.  Although not yet publicly released, I’m currently running WPMicro on my blog.  Currently, it only announces my posts on Twitter, but I’m planning to add support for Identi.ca and other microblogging sites.

Yup, that’s me.  Inconsistent. I’m not a full-time blogger.  I am a full-time parent.  In my copious free time, I’m trying to improve myself as a computer programmer. In just over two months, I’m going to be going back to work.  At that point, I will have less free time, but ironically I will probably [...]