I have never really considered myself as a programmer, more of a shift and make the code work person. Having done a fair bit VB (gasp a mac user using windows) I am finding that I am picking up coding a lot quicker and also finding it easier to modify things mainly this website.
Whilst the theme itself is great there are things I want my way as such the theme your are looking at is a rapid departure from the original code in places and equally the same in others. I am about a quarter of the way through a book on AJAX and a third of the way through reading the Ruby on Rails books I bought a while back and will probably re-read them because I wasn't too sure about programming the first time around (and also because I tried to jump in the deep end)
I took me awhile to get the Portfolio image rotator to work properly on my server from the download, but something happened that never has happened before, I understood what the code was doing without reading into how it works in the first place I could see that it called a style-sheet that I didn't work so I modified it and it worked, it took all of 20 minutes, something that would usually take me a weekend to get my head around.
I have just completed the update to the theme on jacktams.co.uk, I am now running the latest version of K2 and Unsleepable with my mods on top.
And as you will probably see as you browse around there is some nice AJAX improvements that K2 brings to WordPress. I am still working on some finishing touches but I am very pleased with the new theme since I now have got it to work by deleting all the K2 records from the options database.
Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog: Mac Aficionados In Flames About Critical Article
I draw you attention to Mr Larry Bodine, who's supposed to be 'intelligent' his wonderful articles are floating around the internets right now.
I can honestly say without getting too mac fanboy like, he doesn't have a clue about anything with a microchip in it PowerPC, Intel, or otherwise. I aren't going go into specifics but the comments made and the justification that mac is the 'betamax' of the 21st century are unwarranted, unjustified and aren't backed up with an eloquent article in short, Larry You should be ashamed and also there are better ways to boost site traffic than flaming the mac folk around the world.
It amazes me that these people can actually make money.
I shall leave you with one last comment:
Regarding the inability to read Flash, I even telephoned Apple and asked about a plug-in for it. As I stated in the article, the Apple help desk said no improvements in Safari were planned
Hmm, need I say more. Flash not in safari, thats strange I was playing that game on miniclip with yes thats right Flash Player right in Safari (goody I have a special version of Safari)
I hope to update the sites theme with the new version of K2 as soon as a couple of bugs are squashed specifically the modules being un-editable and my archives not working. I have got the theme ready to go and will update when its fixed.
I decided since theres nothing majorly wrong with the site as it is, I will continue the current theme running the mods I have on it, but the newer version available from openswitch.org, admittedly I had already hacked some of the stuff into this version. It will be nice not having to do it again 
I'll keep working on it and it will be just a case of dropping it in when its ready.
So Apple have a new (Product) Red Nano, and there has been an uproar against the miniscule $10 apple is giving per iPod, without me getting ranting and annoying.
Where would the campaign be without Apple, fair enough it is a small amount but Apple is Cool and also everywhere, if you haven't got an ipod your nobody, so the upshot of that being free advertising. Its like FCUK putting slogans on the front of t-shirts that you need to read twice to make sure what they actual say. Red iPod, does good and also gives the publicity it needs to get more companies on board, in short never think one sided about these things.
