Custom post types is definitely the most sought after feature as a lot of the blogs that I build rely heavily on custom posts and custom post handling, depending on what category the post has been assigned to.

The new features will enable me to quickly and painlessly build simpler, more enjoyable user interfaces for custom data channels and I really can’t wait what my clients will think of the new wordpress experience.

P.S. I am making a small promise to myself to “eventually” add at least a tiny showcase of my favourite creations.

…you have outdone yourself once again. Very impressed with that new layout…

It’s remarkable, how much the few words from a client really mean to me as a designer and how much these few words encourage me to triple fold the amount of effort I want to put in this project.

I’m trying to set up a clean url structure like:
site.com/category/sub-category/
Which is effortless in wordpress, however just doesn’t want to work in ee off the bat. I have to resort to mysql queries and logical bits of code like the one below just don’t work.

category="{if "{segment_2}"}{segment_2}{if:else}{segment_1}{/if}"

I miss wordpress.

1. The front washer blades were squeaking.
2. The lights were too low.

Solution? Dropped by to the local halfords, got the brightest road legal headlights and a fresh set of bosch window wipers.

Both issues solved, much happier now. Next on my to-do list: fit an armrest.

That being said, I always had a passion for cars, always secretly dreamed of being a car mechanic. I (not so) recently bought myself a Skoda Fabia 1.4 Classic. I figured this is my chance at fulfilling my secret dream.

It’s a bit run down, completely stock and really needs some love and care.

Here are a few (low quality) pictures of the current condition.

My MacBook is a 3rd-gen, non-uni body model, it has the common fault of strips of plastic breaking off from the keyboard panel. I have no big issue with this, as long as it works, however after finding out that the parts are being replaced by Apple at no cost, I rushed down to my closest Apple store (the one in Oxford circus).

I definitely had the wow factor, after walking into it, my first impression was: a store done right. What one would expect from Apple. I saw lots of people all around and two queues at the end of the store, so I assumed that someone would be able to help.

After around 15 minutes of waiting, the genius sent me upstairs to the genius bar. The queues were to the sales/returns desks. My first thought was: why is this not clearly indicated? I disregarded this as my stupidity and went upstairs to witness a few more queues. I got into one and wasted another 15 minutes waiting for the genius to tell me that I need to book an appointment and should queue in a different line to do so.

This is where I started to feel a bit let down, however the free repair definitely sounded attractive and I was happy to wait a bit more to do so. Besides, I got into a very pleasant discussion with a middle aged lady while waiting for another 15 minutes, so I did not feel the time fly past.

The woman in-front of me came up to the shiny iMac to make a booking. She was first impressed by the big screen, only to be frustrated, after finding out that it has just broken down and the lack of network connection did not let her make an appointment, this fault was only explained to her after about 20 minutes of her smashing the Magic Mouse against the table and shouting insults at the “useless machine” in-front of her.

The genius that came to her rescue promised to resolve her problem and advised everyone in the queue to follow him to a different Mac. Which also had no network. The third one did, however the mouse was either broken or the batteries had died, so we were unable to use it as well.

During this tour of broken down networks and absolute lack of care on the behalf of the geniuses, the lady was trying to explain to one of them that she just wants some help with her new iPod.

None of the geniuses seemed eager to help her with the issue, their job is only to assist us with making reservations to the genius bar. Fair enough, I see how lack of training and low wages could influence them to act the way they did.

So after about 40 minutes of queuing and learning about the unreliable networks provided by AirPort Express, the booking window finally came up and the lady was able to see the available slots. The nearest one was 4 days away. That finally blew her fuse, she smashed the iPod against the floor and stomped on it a few times with her heels, shouting various insults at the store staff and then stormed out of the store.

It is highly disappointing, how a company as profitable as Apple seems to show so little care and regards for their customers, who only want a bit of help trying to figure out a new device that they had just purchased. Furthermore, it is infuriating to see such complete lack of effort in maintaining essential store equipment.

I on the other hand did not have the guts to smash my MacBook, made an appointment and will be coming back to the store in several days.

After witnessing the quality of the hardware, after not having a single major issue with the Mac Os software and using the Apple site as the idol in a lot of my projects I finally felt let down by Apple. I hope this little incident is a one-off and nothing like this will ever happen to any Apple customer.

I look forward to returning to the store in a hope that next time will be different.

I was one of the few on the station, that were actually enjoying the bit of snow that we were blessed with today. However even in this happy state I could not resist to share some of the fury that everybody at the station were experiencing against the train service providers.

The train that I got on was only delayed by about half an hour, so I can be considered lucky and please don’t think that I’m complaining. Most of the people on the station though, were ranting about their services being canceled, or about having to wait for over an hour to get a train home. The delays were between 60 and 120 minutes (at least according to the loudspeaker).

How can a service that has been running for so many years, that employs “high level professionals” and that prides itself on the level of comfort which they provide to their customers fail so badly at being prepared for the centimetres of snow? It’s hilarious.

Armed with my little Nokia E71, I took the liberty of taking a few pictures of the view that I had while on the platform.

So, having seen the “Severe weather conditions”, what do you have to say about the failure?

It would FLY as a hackintosh, there’s just one problem, the built in network adapter and the sound card simply won’t work. FUCK.

There are simply no mac-ready drivers (kexts or efi strings, dsdt doesn’t help here).

This ruined my day today. I miss my mac(hackintosh) every day at work and now, knowing that it’s not going to work, simply makes me really sad.

Will have to survive with Windows 7 ;(

I love the people in this god forsaken place (I’m not religious at all) and I love the attitude that each and every Londoner brings.

The thing that made me smile today: asda and the B&J ice cream special offer, they are always awesome, this one was “extra special”.

• Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
• Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser
• Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
• Addresses an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
• Resolves an issue in which the Command-Option-T keyboard shortcut would sometimes bring up the special characters menu in applications such as Mail and TextEdit
• Addresses instances in which auto account setup in Mail might not work
• Resolves issues when sending mail with certain SMTP servers
• Addresses an issue in which Motion 4 could become unresponsive
• Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18

One thing got me puzzled though: why did apple release iTunes 9 separately from the 10.6.1 update?

When 10.6 came out, the new Quicktime was included, why not follow the same path and add iTunes to the 10.6.1 package.

Still a worthy update, safe for hackintosh users, here’s my about this mac screen with 10.6.1.