The Kyoto Protocol officially starts today: February 16, 2005. But what is Canada’s plan to meet our targets? Sure, we have the One-Tonne Challenge to help ordinary Canadians do their share, but this is only one part of the puzzle. CBC’s web site has some good introductory material about Kyoto and the plan drafted by the government in 2002. Unfortunately, this plan has remained at the “draft” stage and has yet to be implemented in any way.
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Just uploaded my first WordPress Fast Frontend plugin to the WPFF test site. It was a good learning experience and pretty simple to write. The plugin reproduces the category-based styles I have set up on my normal WP site which is a quick hack rather than a plugin. Once I port over my keywords/tags plugin then my WPFF site will be fully functional.
The new plugin architecture was somewhat tricky to figure out sans documentation, but very simple to write for once I grasped the basic structures. The default plugins are great to learn from and you only need to know a few hooks to get one to work. My stock WP plugin experience is limited to the backend, so I won’t comment on which is better (probably an “apples to oranges” comparison anyhow).
I still owe Ludo a response regarding the template system, but that will have to wait for another day…
Ludo released the refactored version of his WordPress Fast Frontend yesterday - you can download it here. I’ve been looking forward to this release since my review of the last version. I tried earlier versions on my test server, but never attempted the conversion of my actual site - until now.
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Cold and crisp in Vancouver today, but flooded in sunshine. It’s amazing how much more energized I am after running rather than swimming. I guess that’s why there’s no such thing as “swimmer’s high”.
The fact that I haven’t been running much recently didn’t stop me from having a great run. Beat my previous best with a time of 29:25. Maybe one of these days I’ll resemble the running form of my teens? Probably not, but a 4min/km pace sure would be nice…
Photo taken by Morgan Petroski 
, posted on Flickr.
Great triathlon shot I spotted on Technorati’s triathlon tag page. The photographer did an excellent job with this one.
