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I’ve been following the Tesla Motors story for about a year and a half now. When my wife had some points to burn on her credit card rewards program, she asked me if I wanted a DVD of Who Killed the Electric Car?. I said yes. We watched it tonight. It made me sad, frustrated, angry - but I’m still glad I watched it. Has anyone had a successful electrical conversion of their hybrid car?

Since my feeds are now customized as part of my theme, I thought I’d take a look at some of the interesting things you can do. I knew that WordPress supports a variety of feeds at different levels (main feed, main comments feed, per-entry feed, per-category feed, etc).

What I was wondering was if there was a way to link each post in the feed to the comments feed of that story. This would allow a good feed reader to let people easily subscribe from the main feed to the conversation feed of a particular story where they have left a comment. Turns out it was fairly straightforward. Click To Read More...

Sam had a good thought over at Erik’s blog. In the past, I’ve mostly been on the side of referenced SVG for clip art - but he raises a good point. Click To Read More...

I think XHTMLate should be pronounced “stimulate”. Anyway, here’s a list of WordPress bugs that I think are important for XHTML: Click To Read More...

I think Inkscape needs to change its versioning scheme. Knowing nothing else, what would you think of a product that went from version 0.45 to version 0.46? Only minor changes? About half-done? One percent improvement? Not very polished? All of these are far from the truth with the latest preview of Inkscape 0.46. Click To Read More...

I’ve corrected some bugs, tweaked the theme in a few places to improve it - but I haven’t done anything major yet with the blog user interface, leaving it as a simple “stream of entries”. I’m trying to decide the things I should show and then I’ll work on how to present them. What are all the different ways people use blogs? Click To Read More...

Sander asked me to post a list of bugs that I found as a result of working on my new theme. Here they are. Click To Read More...