I have been avoiding Facebook like the plague. I’ve been receiving invites from friends since 2005 but I had real concerns over privacy. Due to recent press over Facebook’s privacy woes it turns out I was justified.

The feature set of Facebook is hugely impressive and I do admit I’ve long wanted to sign up and share my pictures, status updates and more with family and friends – but only family and friends.

While reading about alternatives to Facebook I came across Diaspora. This is the first piece of software I’ve been genuinely excited about in years. The idea is that you host the open-source server running your social profile. That means you have complete comtrol over what you share. I even have a computer waiting for the task.

I’ve pledged $10.00 to support Diaspora and I can’t wait to see the final product.

You can make your own contribution to Diaspora using the Kickstarter widget in my sidebar.

New Golden Gray is now hosted at WordPress! Download NGG from WordPress.

New Golden Gray is based on William Pramana’s Golden Grey theme. Golden Gray was originally written for Alex King’s 2005 WordPress theme competition. In the last few years WordPress has undergone many changes and the coding requirements for themes has also changed. New Golden Gray is a rewrite of Golden Grey to meet those requirements and to exploit the new functionality of today’s WordPress, version 2.6, while preserving the aesthetic quality of the original theme.

Features
New Golden Gray has been written to include:

• Support for widgets!
• Accessibility features: access keys and friendly text browser support.
• A 404 page.
• An archive page.
• Support for GaMerZ’ WP-Print plugin.
• Gravatars.

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Download
Download New Golden Gray 1.8 (81K).
Download William Pramana’s original Golden Grey (29K).

Support
Use the comments section for all requests for support or to recommend improvements to NGG.

What’s Next

• Improved navigation bar.
• Improved support for mobile devices.

Known Issues

• If your blog contains more than about eight page links, they will not all fit in the navigation bar and they page layout will distort.
• Some CSS3 code is used in the style sheet which won’t validate against W3C’s current CSS validation.

Trassare.com is now using the Winksite plugin to support the Wii and the DS Lite.  I do not have either of these neat toys so if someone out there does, please visit this site with your device and upload a screenshot for me.

I’ve been on an accessibility kick with my websites lately.  I’ve long supported the PSP with the Winksite plugin but today I decided to add activate the plugins for the other two game systems as well.  In the coming days, months I’ll be updating this site with accessibility controls to improve navigation and appearance on multiple browsers.

I created a site at SourceForge for the Jac calculator. Unfortunately I don’t have the time due to my business work to set up the CVS and other goodies at SourceForge. If anyone out there would like to help me with this I’d really appreciate it. Either drop me a line here on this site or e-mail me and we can work to setup the CVS at SourceForge!

Many thanks!

Jac Calc at SourceForge.

Several people suggested some changes to the calculator. I also found a better way to execute the grammar. This version does not represent the grammar as I ultimately want it to be but it is much more intuitive than the last version. I’m hoping that in one or two more test releases I should have version 2.0 finalized.

I’m not going to put up anymore documentation such as the JavaNCSS, ckjm, and whatnot until I’m done. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line. That being said, I will post the grammar this time around to give you an idea of the final operation.
I appreciate everyone’s input. I’m nearly there!

Download Jac v.2.0.291 [TEST]

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