Month: August 2004

Grrr, yesterday I twisted/pulled/crunched/whatever something in my back. It was annoying me all day yesterday and for extra fun it made sleeping last night a waste of time. I didn’t wake up rested even though I went to bed early1. I woke up with my back still feeling cranky and without feeling the joy of having a full night’s sleep. *grump*

I’m feeling cranky today. You have been warned.

1 Ok, it wasn’t early by many people’s standards but any night I make it to bed before 11 is an early night for me.

If you’re not a regular WP user, then you might not have noticed there’s a large amount of anger and frustration happening in their support forums lately. Basically, some people in the community have spent a great deal of time and effort helping out WP users with layout problems that others ended up with due to quirks in the default layout and in some1 of the designs that were posted over at Alex King’s WordPress Style Competition. But that wasn’t the direct cause of the current mess in the forums; no the blame for that seems to rest with Michael’s announcement that a variation of his Kubrick style would be included with the next release of WordPress. This was the spark to an apparent holy war between WP’s community support leaders2 and WP’s developers, with a bunch of fanboys on the sidelines escalating things.

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