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So I got a little bored and decided it was time to try something new. I have no clue if it’s been done before, but I couldn’t find anything so here we go for information on the first Twitter Tag …or at least that’s what I’m calling it.

The rules are simple:

• Tag one of the people you’re following using @username *TAG* #urit - pass it on...no TAG backs
• You may not tag the person that just tagged you.
• Keep the karma going and just *TAG* a person
• Have fun!

While it may seem pointless, it probably is pointless. The point is to have fun and honestly see how connected and networked you actually are.

So there it is, Twitter Tag with #urit — have fun!

Well in an effort to get a charitable site up and running quickly with minimal work I decided that Word Press was indeed the best application for the job. I sat down tonight at about 8:55 to get started on it with a Dos Equis in hand. Within three hours I came up with what I think isn’t that bad of a theme and it would be good for a poker site too! I’ll make some minor changes to it and perhaps release it as a theme.

I’m running 7 plug-ins right now with an extra one sitting in the inactive bin that will most likely get included too. AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget, Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Bad Behavior, FormBuilder, Google XML Sitemaps & Maintenance Mode. Oh and that one sitting inactive, WP-Print.

It’s getting a little late right now, so I’ll link that plugins tomorrow…or just simply search for them. I just installed all of them (with the exception of Akismet) through the admin panel of Word Press without any issue. Take care, and party hard.

So the quest has begun to find a new calendar/date picker to use on a site with two input fields (a depart & a return). It also needs to be able to restrict dates based on values from other select boxes and ideally display multiple months at a time either horizontally or vertically. And of course there’s a restriction on the begin and end dates in the calendar too. The site already has jQuery running in the background so it just makes sense to go with that library to power the picker.

A quick Google search shows a promising list. I’ve had an in-depth look at three of them:

• Date Picker plugin
• jQuery Datepicker
• jQuery UI – Datepicker

Now each has it’s strong points but it doesn’t seem to offer everything I need. So I pose the question to you, do you have any clue on a great calendar/date picker running on the jQuery library?

Thanks in advance.

Today found me looking around at different themes to use for 360aday.com and I still have yet to find one that I’m sold on. I’ve actually been developing custom themes for a number of different sites that I’ve been working on and am enjoying using WordPress as a CMS. So I figured today that I’ll also begin reviewing different plugins that I use across different sites. I know that it won’t be an amazing review site, however I’m doing this for me. It’s a place to sit with a list of popular WordPress plugins that I use and have tried. That way I’ll know to either keep using them or avoid them and hopefully I won’t need to search as much for various different WordPress plugins as well. I guess the first step to get this done is to actually upgrade this from WordPress 2.6.1 to WordPress 2.7! It should be interesting to see if/what I lose in the migration. I don’t bother to back things up like I should…only for blogs that matter!

Wish me luck!