Lee Kelleher’s Weblog

In between my many projects (paid and personal) and entering fatherhood… I seem to have found some time to start up an open-source project with Ben Taylor, (my old comrade from the Scream days).

I’ve mentioned it a couple of times on my blog recently, but hadn’t yet got around to introducing it… then Ben beat me to it!

So without further ado, here is Ben’s introduction to Pez!

I’ve survived the first week of fatherhood! Even after all the advice from friends and family, books you’ve read, etc… Nothing prepares you for it! Completely in at the deep-end on the first sleepless night - no idea what was going on; what time it was; night-turns-into-day-into-night; a total blur! Strangely though, I am loving being a father - and absolutely smitten with Katelyn!

In other news, there’s another baby (a project) that Ben and I are getting the ball rolling with… Pez!
We’ll tell you all about it soon!

The past weekend has been an amazing experience for me (and Lucy). After being 12-days overdue, and a 12-hour labour, Lucy gave birth to our beautiful daughter, Katelyn Mary Kelleher!

I’m still trying to recover from the lack of sleep… but I can’t complain too much - as I wasn’t the one giving birth!!! (Lucy did fantastic!)

Hopefully they’ll be coming home from the hospital tomorrow… I can’t wait! (apart from doing the house-cleaning! )

I’ve finally started work on my zeitgeist page. My personal projects have been on the back-burner, as I’ve (obviously) had other things to think about!

Personal Zeitgeist is very easy to get up and running, although I have been making a lot of tweaks - mostly to satisfy my own coding preferences; for example: renaming the *.inc files to *.inc.php - so that nobody else can view the source-code. (That’s been one of my long-term gripes with, the otherwise brilliant, SimplePie).

I’ll most likely do a lot more customisation to the zeitgeist template/theme before I set it as my default web-page.

Here are a few of the things I want it to do:

• Act as my OpenID delegate (I haven’t yet decided who to use as my default OpenID provider - most likely be WordPress.com)
• Display a set of links to all my external web-profiles (i.e. flickr, last.fm, etc.) - along with corresponding favicons, XFN and OPML. (Actually it’s probably easier to store them as OPML in the first place.)
• I’m also considering adding some tag cloud functionality - just to quench my thirst for tagging.
• Develop a few functions; specifically an email obfuscator (most likely lift the code from wp-includes)

Who knows when I’ll be able to do all this… especially when my other commitments are quite demanding!

Hello and welcome to my new weblog (generously hosted here on WordPress.com).

I’ve spent the last year (or so) trying to figure out how to best present myself online. My last attempt was over on at leekelleher.com. I had some information about myself, a linklog and details of a WordPress plugin that I developed.

I found that the linklog became redundant, as it’s easier for me to use del.icio.us for my links/bookmarks.

The Category Cloud widget page is pretty much a mirror of the content hosted over at WordPress.org’s Plugins Directory.

Apart from the tidbits of information, my personal site is somewhat lacking… and definitely overkill to maintain a WordPress installation (with regular updates, patches and security releases - it was becoming too much of a chore!)

So my latest “plan” is to have all my “user-generated content” off-site; del.icio.us (combined with digg & Google Reader) for links, Flickr for photos, last.fm for music-profiling and (of course) WordPress for the content (blog posts/journals/articles).

I started to look at a PHP script called Personal Zeitgeist to pull everything together. It looks decent enough, so I’ll see how I get on with it.