I am shocked at how short 45 minutes is! I felt like I babbled at break-neck speed and got nowhere.

However I did cover about a third of my agenda, touched on a few other bits, and got some good feedback from people.

I have another session this afternoon. I will have to trim it, and do more of the hands-on myself.

Last year’s WordCampUK was the first and went really, really well. I got to speak at the event, I met some great people, and for me, it was a life changing event — literally! Having listened to and spoken to a number of people who earn all or part of their living with WordPress, I decided to give up my job and work for myself.

I can’t promise it will be quite so significant for you, but I do promise you will hear some great speakers, and meet some really nice people. Some who are experts, some who are beginners, plenty in between, all of whom are fans of WordPress.

We all work together to make it a great couple of days from which everyone can learn something, be inspired, and maybe, just maybe, it can change your life too.

I have volunteered to speak again, but don’t let that put you off.

This time I am bringing the family along a day early and I’m looking forward to seeing some of what Cardiff has to offer. I’m especially looking forward to the Dr Who and Torchwood exhibitions

Tickets are now on sale, with a discount before May 31st. We are looking for Sponsors too.

Come along, all are welcome. Please book early, as places are limited.

They wanted a commentable summary version of their current consultation paper and a general discussion forum. The original consultation paper, “The Admissibility of Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings in England and Wales”, runs to 98 pages, so the 15 page summary (plus end notes) works much better online.

It’s built on WordPress, of course, and the forum is BBPress

Check it out and, of course, it is a public consultation, so feel free contribute (registration required).

Will you be doing your bit for comic relief? Gordon Brown and the British government pledged £2 Million.

Hope you had a good day

Lots of love,
Gramps, Nan, and Jamie.

xoxoxox

PS: Better late than never!

This is not a general purpose tool. It is particularly specialized and only useful for people using the DITA Open Toolkit to generate web content.

Other developers might be interested because it does import static XHTML files and pick apart the content, extracting info, removing unwanted parts, and change others, as well as importing the body of the page into WordPress.

Take a look if you are interested on the plugin page (yes, I know an importer is not a plugin). Please leave feedback in the comments on that page.

However last year, Matt held a birthday party for WordPress’ 5th in May. May 27th to be precise, which is the anniversary of the first WordPress release.

If the birth of WordPress was the first release, then I guess I’ve been celebrating the conception. 

Regardless, WordPress has come a long way. The baby  has grown into a world beating piece of software. It’s so good I’ve bet the house on it (more of that soon).

Anyway “Happy Conception” to WordPress and I hope there are many more to come.

Go check it out. If you have any questions or comments, please ask them or leave them on the theme page.

• A couple of 2.7 only dependencies have now been fixed.
• A problem with versions of PHP less than 5 was fixed.
• The theme is now translatable and comes with Russian built in (Thanks to Dmitriy Donchenko)

Go to the theme page to download it.

As usual, please add your comments, questions, or bug reports to the theme page.

I am particularly interested in feedback on the internationalisation of the theme. This is the first time I have translated a theme, so I may have done some things wrong! I have included the POT, PO, and MO files. If anyone wishes to translate the theme to other languages, please do, I am more than happy to distribute other language files with the theme.

This year I hope we can top that and make it bigger and better. The details can be found over at Tony Scott’s site.

Note, there is a deadline for submissions of midnight GMT on Sunday 25 January 2009 so that’s less than two weeks!