Archive for March, 2009

Introducing Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral)

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I’ve been a heavy user of GrandCentral‘s phone/voicemail service since some time before they were acquired by Google. I found it especially handy for allowing me to have a San Francisco area code (415) phone number that forwards calls right to my original Hawaii cell phone number, which is pretty much the only phone I [...]

Tachikoma are awesome

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I’m slowly working my way through rewatching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (series 1) and I just had to say, the Tachikoma are probably the best non-human/oid characters in anime, ever! They are kind of shaped like toilets, but that’s okay… I still want one. Other favorites: – Totoro – Domo-kun – Afroken [...]

WordPress Automatic Links plugin

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Here’s a super simple WordPress plugin that automatically adds HTML anchor tags to plain text links and email addresses embedded in the content of posts and pages (WordPress already does this by default for comments). It also gives you the option to set the nofollow attribute value on all automatically generated hyperlinks. Download this plugin [...]