Boy Meets World Meets Booze Meets Road Meets Cops.

Danielle Fishel was arrested on DUI charges. In other news, Danielle Fishel is still hot.

OK. So, I finally moved the back-end of this site over to Wordpress from the (now slow, bloated, buggy and unusable) Movabletype 4. I also took the opportunity to completely redo the design. It is heavily based on TypoXP Reloaded (linked in the footer).

More customization is coming, obviously, as well as the laborious task of deciding what to retain from 8 years of random clutter on softlord.com.

Anyway. Enjoy!

From TedTalks, the best lecture series on the planet. Why Are We Happy? Or Not? – Daniel Gilbert

Bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert describes some surprising information about your happiness.Sounds like we all need to listen to Sinead after all.

[via LifeHack]

• Enter to win $10,000 from Amazon
• Screenwriter John Rodgers posts on Kung Foo Monkey about peoples favorite bits of prose/screenwriting. Some interesting stuff, if a bit Whedon/Sorkin heavy (not that I’ve ever had a problem with that.
• Within that post is an essay about why Peanuts is awesome
• A bunch of nerds web professionals filmed people reading webpages to track eye movements. Here are a bunch of things you can do to your site to take advantage of their findings.

Starting with a new look and focus to this site. Stay tuned.