In a mirror, dimly

I am famous for starting projects and not finishing them. Its a male thing I suppose. In my case the remains of these 1/2 finished projects litter the hard-drive of my computer in the form of Wordpress themes, PhpBB themes, Wordpress plugins, Java projects and the like. Well, no more. I finished something! I released it and at the time of this post, there have been over 80 downloads so far.

The Wordpress theme “Henge” was released at the weekend. It was a statement on what I feel about the phenomenon of “sponsored links”, monetized blogs, search engine optimization and all of the rest of the “commercialized blogging” world. Specifically, it’s released under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported” license that allows non-commercial use only, with the provision of freely sharing and hacking the theme to your heart’s content.

This is only the first such theme. I have others in the pipeline. Also coming are a couple of plugins (actually, sidebar widgets) that will be similarly for non-commerical use only.

This just puts me in mind of a scene from “The Mummy” where Evelyn translates a section of hieroglyphs and exclaims “take that Benbridge Scholars!” - releasing the software was my own “take that, sponsored link spammers!”

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