The Life and Times of Sooz

Boston Wireless Advocacy Group has a new look for it's weblog and overall website powered by WordPress. I spent some time digging into WP 2.0 and especially appreciate the new admin interface. Hopefully I'll have more time this weekend to look into the new Structured Blogging plugin.

BostonWAG is ...
an organization of volunteers from ...

I received an email today asking what the font is that I'm using in "The Life & Times of Sooz" logo at the top of sooz.com. It's Omnes by Joshua Darden. (Previously the logo was using Freight Micro, another one of his fonts.)

About Omnes:

Originally conceived as the brand typeface for a national retail chain, Omnes ...

If it were up to me, Neil Finn and Jane Siberry would record a song together.

This week's song of the week is "Last to Know" by Neil Finn from his One All album from 2002. If you don't know his name, you have probably heard of his old band Crowded House. These ...

My landlord while Michael and I lived in Arlington Heights 1998-2003 is looking for a web designer to join his new company. He is a great guy with an impressive background in technology. If you (or someone you know) is looking for a web designer job in Boston, please get in touch with me and ...

For the past few days I've been receiving emails from my web host (DreamHost) alerting me of a problem with the amount of CPU usage on my shared hosting account. I've never had this happen before. The resources report shows that php5.cgi is using up 3548.7700 seconds of CPU time. Dreamhost tech support has advised ...

Michael Oh of Tech Superpowers and fellow co-founder (along with Patrick McCormick and myself) of Boston Wireless Advocacy Group is quoted in today's Boston Globe article about the lack of a city wireless initiative.

''No one's stepping up," said Michael Oh, a local technology executive and cofounder of the Boston Wireless Advocacy Group, a loose crew ...

I recently came across an excellent WordPress plugin called FAlbum that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site. I need to tweak the CSS, but you can see the plugin in action here on the main photos page.

Scott Johnson left Feedster recently and has something new in the works called Ookles. Feedster first came to life almost three years ago. I helped Scott name the company in an IM conversation during the Spring of 2003.

Tamye Riggs (conference organizer for TypeCon) is in town this week. A group of humans are getting together for dinner tomorrow night, Thursday, December 15th. If you'd like to join us, please do! The plan is to meet 7PM at Fajita & Rita's at 25 West Street in downtown Boston. The restaurant is a couple ...

I'm trying to convince TypeCon to use Wordpress for their 2006 conference website. The conference is taking place in Boston next summer (August 9-16, 2006). Their website will possibly have a blog but there is a lot of other content beyond that (of course) for hotel information, speakers/panels, registration, Boston tidbits, etc. I'm looking for ...