Update of the sp theme for Habari versions ≥ svn revision 2907 (aka 0.6-alpha) is available over at the testing server. Version 0.6.2 of sp updates from $user to $loggedin to fix the login box, synchronizes some CSS class names with Simplish (for my convenience), shrinks the header background image down by 5 more bytes, and removes unnecessary conditionals in the sidebar code (thanks miklb for the advice).

I relented and added support for threaded comments to Simplish for the upcoming WordPress 2.7. I have some initial code and a demo up at labs.utopian.net. So now we load a JavaScript — but only when the threaded comments setting is true, and even then only on single post views.

I’m not sure about supporting in Simplish the eventual threaded comments in WordPress ≥ 2.7. The threads feature is fine enough, but so is a simple theme that doesn’t load any JavaScript.

After a week of political, um, let’s call it tone poetry, back to more pleasant business with:

A revision of the sp theme for Habari versions ≥ svn revision 2808 (aka 0.6-alpha) is available over at the testing server. This updates for newer Habari methods in date/time and has some css cleanups/organization changes.

UPDATED: An important change in 0.6.1 that I forgot to mention was the patch from Anonymous that shaved the header background image down to 1/10th its original size, leaving it just a slender 261 bytes.

“A rich enemy excites their cupidity; a poor one, their lust for power. East and West alike have failed to satisfy them…. To robbery, butchery, and rapine, they give the lying name of “government”; they create a desolation and call it peace.” — Calgacus, in speech to the assembled Britons, from Tacitus, The Agricola

Some words from John Prine:

“I wish you love, and happiness
I guess I wish you all the best
…
If you felt just the way I did
You’d probably walk around the block like a little kid
But kids don’t know - they can only guess
How hard it is to wish you happiness
…
Say you drive a Chevy
Say you drive a Ford
Say you drive around the town until you just get bored
Then you change your mind for something else to do
And your heart gets bored with your mind and it changes you
It’s a doggone shame
It’s an awful mess
I wish you love, I wish you happiness
I guess I wish you all the best.”