Sometimes you have to take some time away from the work computer and move over to the work-play computer. This rainy afternoon I am testing WordPress plug-ins that presumably will allow me to post in WordPress while simultaneously Tweeting some portion of the post. There is something inherently playful in the work I do and testing plug-ins is as playful as I might hope for on a Thursday afternoon. Of course, you might know that Twitter is sporting its fail whale this afternoon, so the plug-ins will need to wait.

Plug-ins under consideration:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
http://twitterupdater.com/
with a nod to http://blog.victoriac.net, the owner of which wrote round one of Twitter Updater (it seems) and whose blog briefly put me in mind of Lisbeth Salander.

Yes it’s lovely in Illustrator, but how will it look on your iPhone? Or for that matter, how will that new, cute little favicon look? Get a clue and stroll over to http://www.flavorstudios.com/iphone-icon-generator.

Recently, a client found himself flummoxed by the fact that his rectangular iPad icon, featuring a narrow border around its edges (this is soon to be used for a new iPad app) was outputting with the corner edges of the icon — and therefore the border edges — lopped off. But doesn’t Apple recommend uploading rectangular icons (not ones with rounded edges) icons, with the understanding that any rounded edges will be added on the server side? It looked that way from all my reading.

Determined nevertheless to solve the mystery of the lopped off border edges, I experimented with a few different approaches but continued to produce icons with rounded edges and lopped off borders. The solution, I finally realized, was to upload icons with the rounded corners in place. Who knew? And who knew that I would have help in the form of flavor studio’s iphone icon generator, which allows me to upload png icons and view them in various degrees of glossiness etc.

A minor triumph yes, but still a relief. Problem solved.

When Drupal dev goes smoothly & pieces fall into place as if by magic, few project types are more satisfying = the strange allure of Drupal.

Theming nice menus in Drupal = wrestling with a:hover. Hmm. So I read the css comments installed w the module. Significant leap forward.

P3 Amplifiers web site launches. Beautiful, hand made tube guitar amps by Price Harrison and Kye Kennedy. http://www.p3amplifiers.com.

Installing my first WordPress 3 blog today for http://www.theestuary.org and learning more re new features. WP such a brilliant app.

Apparently homeless black dog in east Nashville 10th & Shelby gas station. No collar. Can anyone rescue?

The NY Times offers a focus measurement test for technos: http://nyti.ms/c4yaVM – how skillful are you these days at focusing?

Too much Internet and too much multi-tasking = rewiring the brain. Excellent article: http://nyti.ms/c7itV1