We recently mailed friends and family a birth announcement announcing Marshall‘s arrival.
Here are the adjusted photos we used in the announcement, which was printed by Shutterfly and designed by Kim and I. I adjusted the photos using Adobe Photoshop. I’m really pleased with how they came out.
Facebook has announced the launch of a new WordPress plugin that it has developed to integrate its most-popular social network with the most-used, self-hosted publishing platform.
This sounds really cool. For years, we’ve relied on workarounds coded by the community.
It’s good to hear that the Facebook developers have finally stepped up and done it themselves. More stability, I hope! And with luck, this plugin will progress as Facebook does.
This solution will likely replace a few others that I currently use, including some of the functionality of Otto42’s Simple Facebook Connect plugin. However, Otto’s work is still vital to this website – as I likely will keep the integration of his Connect to Facebook feature to allow visitors to comment here using their Facebook profile.
One annoyance observed right-off-the-bat: When you save a draft; your “Facebook status on your timeline” and “Mention Facebook friends” data is lost. Luckily, Firefox remembers my form data.
UPDATE: 3:45 p.m. – The Simple Facebook Connect plugin conflicts with the new Facebook plugin. Duh. Deactivating it ended a three-hour-long headache of trying to get the new plugin’s “Facebook Social Publisher” and “Facebook Author Message” function to work. Which is very cool, by the way.
UPDATE: 11:37 p.m. – I found this post where Simple Facebook Connect plugin author Otto42 reports that he’ll likely eventually drop support for his awesome and years-ahead-of-its-time plugin, in favor of supporting the official Facebook plugin. Otto42 is a frequent contributor to WordPress and I’m interested to see what this new plugin will do in terms of freeing up his time to focus on other matters.
Having a garden is hard work. So is caring for a newborn. These days I barely have time to pick the harvest, but it’s even harder finding the time to prepare it and eat it.
Still, what’s the point of growing it if you can’t flaunt it on the Internets?
On June 7, I started picking melons which I planted in February and that germinated on March 1. The Rich Sweetness 132 melon, purchased as seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, is — well — interesting.
Its taste is best described by Max E, who wrote a review at the page linked to above:
Flavor is still mild, somewhere in between a musky cucumber and a honeydew. My mom said to her they tasted a bit like conventional (as in commercial) honeydew. The jelly part with the seeds in the middle ARE sort of sour and astringent, so scoop, save seed (one melon will provide enough seeds to last forever) and enjoy.
I think next Spring I’ll be trying my hand at cantaloupe, hoping for a sweeter fruit, now that I have proven I can grow melons. A previous attempt in 2009 to grow watermelons yielded only one specimen on Oct. 3, 2009.
This color palette comes courtesy of Luna Rosa on Coulour Lovers, who created the palette, “Midsummer Dream.”
Luna Rosa’s palette is used in the derivative work thanks to a Creative Commons license.
I caught up, pretty much, with the photos. See more photos of Marshall’s first two weeks here:
https://brandonmoeller.com/photo/?album=MeetMarshall
… and order prints or download your favorites on Picasa Web albums here.
OK, now everyone stop taking photos so I can stay caught up!
