Earlier this year I discovered a handy site called TagCrowd which can turn any text into tag clouds.

With the election campaigns formally underway here in New Zealand, here’s what the two main leaders have been talking about:

Helen Clark’s Opening Speech

John Key’s Opening Speech

With Wordpress now having built-in tag support, I’ve updated the plugin to show a list of your tags in columns that I originally created to work with Ultimate Tag Warrior.

The plugin will list Wordpress tags in columns and in vertical groups.

Installation

1. Download the plugin and rename from cre8d_tags_in_columns.txt to cre8d_tags_in_columns.php
2. Upload the plugin to your plugins directory and activate the plugin
3. Access the listing by including echo cre8d_tag_columns(); somewhere in your template. This will give, by default, 3 columns and tags grouped vertically in 5s. If you wanted 2 columns and groups of ten, use: echo cre8d_tag_columns(2,10); and so forth.
4. Add to your stylesheet the following:
   
   .list-column { float: left; width: 160px; margin: 0 5px; }
   .list-column ul { margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; }
   .list-column ul li { list-style-type: none; }
   .spacer { margin-bottom: 20px; }

5. Optionally tweak the width of .list-column to suit your blog’s layout. You may like to change the vertical spacing (.spacer) between groups too.
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Congratulations to Stephen, who codes for us here at cre8d design, for advancing to the final round of Google’s Code Jam programming competition! He came 8th in the Asia/Pacific round and will next compete in California in November.

Update: Our ISP Slingshot is caching private Gmail, Trademe, Facebook and Digg pages!!! I - and others on Slingshot - can see other people’s account info! We have had caching issues with them before, but never on private pages and this is RIDICULOUS! We rang Slingshot this afternoon and they admitted the problem!!!

Click to enlarge screenshots (blurred partially to protect privacy of other people’s accounts):

Three different Gmail accounts:

Three different Facebook accounts:

Trademe account:

Posted earlier:

This afternoon I tried logging into Gmail as I usually do to check my email and discovered that I was logged into someone else’s account! I got a real shock and tried a few more times, the same thing happened again.

I then tried using a different browser (IE7 instead of Firefox 2) and this time when I logged in I saw a different person’s Gmail account! In both cases I get a pop-up window appearing saying the following:

You have been signed out of this account.

This may have happened automatically because another user signed in from the same browser. To continue using this account, you will need to sign in again. This is done to protect your account and to ensure the privacy of your information.

What was interesting is that the email accounts all look to be those of other New Zealanders as there are TradeMe emails in both (New Zealand’s version of Ebay).

As of now I still can’t access my Gmail account and am seriously concerned about what is going on.

The year is flying by and I keep thinking I must blog about a few of the recent sites that we’ve been working on which have now launched, so without further ado:

• Channel Flip - we worked with the team behind this site who are based in the UK and making some fantastic online videos so completely redesign their site (logo excluded) and implement it in Wordpress with lots of handy little features such as a forum view of the site.
• Lost at E Minor - we worked with the guys behind this site who are based in Australia and implemented Andrew Whitehead’s design in Wordpress. It’s a great example of an intricate magazine site still being powered by Wordpress and has tonnes of fascinating content as well.
• Cheap Stingy Bargains - we’ve been tweaking their site adding new features and custom plugins for them - again this massive site runs on Wordpress!
• Street Speculator - design and implementation and support for a much simpler blog in Wordpress.
• Digital Soapbox - a simple Drupal site where bloggers’ posts can be voted on.