Neothoughts

WP SUP for FriendFeed is now available in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Those of you with WordPress 2.7 can now install it from within the admin tool.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you published a post to your blog and within seconds it showed up on FriendFeed?

After reading about FriendFeed’s proposed Simple Update Protocol (SUP) earlier today, the idea of all of the WordPress blogs around the world publishing near-instantaneous updates to FriendFeed grew too delicious to pass up. So I have created a plugin for WordPress that will assist with that.

WP SUP is a plugin that adds the SUP-ID HTTP header to your blog’s feeds and pings FriendFeed’s public SUP feed when you publish a post.

During testing posts were showing up on FriendFeed within about 10 seconds of being published.

This is my first WordPress plugin, so brutally honest feedback is definitely appreciated.

Download it here: (zip)

Installation instructions and other info are here.

We visited Webster’s Falls and Spencer Gorge this weekend. More photos here.

We visited Dyment’s Farm last weekend. More pictures here.

Republican Trickery,
originally uploaded by Aidenag.

Mark Johnson posted this picture of his ballot. It illustrates the lengths that Washington State Republicans are going to avoid being called what they are… Republicans.

When local Democrats got wind that Republican candidates were going to do this back in September, they filed a lawsuit to try to force gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi to list himself as “Republican” on the ballot. Unfortunately for the Democrats, that move was shot down in court.

As a result, there are 3 different brands of Republicans on Mark’s ballot. Dino Rossi has listed himself as “Prefers G.O.P. Party”. John Sweeney, candidate for state legislature, lists himself as “Prefers Grand Old Party”. And others such as Steve Beren, candidate for the U.S. house of representatives, are brave enough to actually list themselves as “Prefers Republican Party”.

Clearly, they know as well as everyone else that the Republican brand has been sullied over the last 8 years.

After reading this review for my newest lens, Canon’s EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, I was intrigued. The author mentioned that Canon’s RAW processing software, Digital Photo Professional (DPP), had the ability to correct lens distortion and chromatic aberration… two features I have been dying for, but are not in any version of DPP that I knew of.

It turns out that that is because a new version of DPP (version 3.5) has shipped but is only available with Canon’s new EOS 50D DSLRs. They haven’t put it on their website for download yet.

Lucky for us, it appears some generous person in Taiwan has posted the installer for DPP 3.5 on Rapidshare. I downloaded it, installed it and it works great. No more lens distortion or chromatic aberration for me!

Download it here (63 Mb). Sorry Mac fans, it’s Windows-only.