Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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Widgets on Pleasure and Pain

June 26th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging

A few weeks ago my lovely friend Livia Labate asked me what widgets I use in the sidebar of this blog. Since I thought it might be interesting information for everyone, I’m posting it here.
Twitter Widget

Google Calendar embed

Dopplr blog badge

Disqus recent comments widget

Amazon Carousel Widget

MyBlogLog Recent Readers Widget

Enjoy!
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WordPress 2.8 is released

June 11th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging, User Experience

I use WordPress to power this blog so I always like to take a close look at new versions to see if they will help or hurt my workflow. Over a year ago I wrote extensively about WordPress 2.5, which was a drastic overhaul of all aspects of the admin tool. I failed to write [...]

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Anonymous Commenters

May 15th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging

Ever pick up Maxim magazine? It’s topical for men’s issues. Same concept. Not a limitation. Just topical relevance.

Originally posted as a comment by openminded.
Dear “openminded” (and other anonymous commenters):
You’re allowed to have an opposing viewpoint. In fact, I welcome it! But when you don’t use your real name, your comments hold [...]

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This email is bloggable

May 12th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging, Pleasure

Last month I got an email from Jonathan Berger, whom I had met briefly at NY Tech Meetup several months back. He just launched an online vintage marketplace called Market Publique and wanted to spread the news (I’ve already bought two items from it and it’s actually pretty rad).
I get a lot of emails from [...]

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A blogger’s worst nightmare

May 11th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging, Branding, Pain

When you hit Save Draft and you get this message:

WordPress Failure Notice: Your attempt to edit this post has failed. Please try again.
Luckily for me, when I hit the Back button I discovered that WordPress had auto-saved the draft and none of my edits were lost.
Still, perhaps they should consider using a slightly less severe [...]

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