Not sure if anyone will read this. But… a new site is coming. It’s time to dust off this blog and get back into the game.

• Hyphenation
• Spacing control, including: gluing values to units, widow protection, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses.
• Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks, dashes, ellipses, trademarks, multiplication symbols, fractions, and ordinal suffixes (i.e. 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd)
• CSS hooks for styling: ampersands (class “amp”), acronyms (class “caps”), numbers (class “numbers”), initial single quotes (class “quo”), and initial double quotes & guillemets (class “dquo”).

Please update your bookmarks.

If you’ve used my plugin wp-typogrify before. You’ll be happy to hear I’m currently in progress of updating and merging it with the fantastic wp-hyphenate by Jeff King — he’ll also take over management of the plugin.

No exact estimate on completion, but I don’t see it taking too long. Stay tuned!

I’ll be back soon.

So far I think it’s great. Thanks for your hard work, Damien.

Figure 1: Envy Code R in action

For some time now, Montreal’s Hockey team, Les Canadiens have been playing hard in the NHL Playoffs. Unfortunately as of this post they’re one round away from a possible elimination. But that’s all the more reason for us to give them our support!

So last week I put together this wallpaper to show my dedication to our team. Taking the classic Canadiens’ logo, adding a 3D spin, and a bit of Trajan Pro. I think I came up with a simple, attractive wallpaper. I hope you like it. (I imagine it helps if you’re a Habs fan.)

Download: 1440x900 | 1680x1050 | 1920x1200

Share and enjoy.

I purchased the hami.sh domain a few months ago (.sh stands for Saint Helena, if you’re curious). And for the longest time it simply redirected to my blog.

Now, I’ve always envisioned a sort of central point for my web presence, somewhere I can send people instead of naming off a bunch of web sites I use — my newly acquired domain was the perfect candidate.

The whole web site came together quite well. In the past I would start toying with some designs in Photoshop, but eventually become discouraged, and toss everything. A designer is always his/her own worst critic.

But in the end, I knew I wanted something simple. So I focused more on the layout and type; I put together the header you see now, and from there slowly produced the rest of the site.

I’ll likely be touching it up as time goes by. Tweaking some of the colors, and layout. But overall, I’m very happy with how it turned out. I hope you like it too.

If you recall, I mentioned that I bought an iPod Touch on my trip to New York City. So now thus equipped, I thought I’d make use of the Photos application, and put together some train schedules that I can refer to on the go.

After a bit of time in Photoshop, and a hefty dose of Helvetica, I finally had what I needed.

So far it’s working out great. The darkened region highlights the trains that I usually catch on a normal work day.

Here are some shots of the schedule in action:

Now the question is, what else should I do?

Okay. So I just finished upgrading to the new Wordpress 2.5. And so far, nothing has broken. Yay.

As for wp-typogrify; there’s a bug that I’ve noticed (and been told about before) that I haven’t quite fixed yet. Basically, it’s when you use the option to wrap capitals (acronyms, abbreviations, etc.) in <span class='caps'> tags for special styling. What this can result in is HTML in your post titles. Which is fine for actual HTML output, but when your title appears in the <a> tag’s title attribute, your HTML ends up being displayed in the tooltip. Not good.

So how do I fix this? Well I thought I had, using the method I described here.

Unfortunately, it seems that Wordpress no longer acts as it once did. Though I don’t think this is new in 2.5 — I just never noticed it myself since I was using a fairly old version of Wordpress for some time.

Anyway, right now the easiest fix I can think of is to use PHP’s strip_tags() function on the titles. I’ll update the plugin and info pages with this information ASAP. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments, or by email.

Thanks. And have a great Sunday.