My blog has spawned
A guy I met in the ##astronomy channel on FreeNode was so impressed with the layout of this blog that he wanted to use it on his own newly-started blog. So I packaged up the theme and sent it off to him. His blog is called Kenspire (and you can tell at a glance that it shares the theme in common with Cyde Weys Musings). I guess I’m flattered that someone liked this layout enough to want to use it for their own blog.
Of course, I cannot take most of the credit. I in turn got this WordPress theme from Andrew Arensburger of Ooblick (with modifications since), so he now has a blog grandchild. The lineage gets even more complicated, as Andrew in turn got the theme from someone else, tracing back through a line of succession eventually leading back to one of the original WordPress themes.
It’s quite interesting how these kinds of things spread across the Internet, slowly changing over time. You can see all sorts of vestigial code in this theme, too (just look at the stylesheet). I never bothered to clean it up, so it has all sorts of stuff that are no longer in use. And Ken isn’t using some of the plugins I adapted the theme to use, so his version has even more vestigial code in it. This is exactly like biological evolution. I wonder when our themes will speciate?
December 4th, 2007 at 03:34
Oh look, spam! Are those what you have been going through and deleting?
December 4th, 2007 at 10:21
Sigh, yup, that’d be the spam. I need to find a WordPress plugin that auto-moderates all trackbacks. Those seem to be the only consistent ones getting through.
December 4th, 2007 at 16:11
Cool! I suppose I should package up my skin and put it where people can get at it (especially since I had to hack it up to make it work with sidebar widgets).