Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Quarkonium, The Blog

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Good friend Matt has started a blog for his poetry, called Quarkonium, and it is an instant hit. WordPress.com has it listed as the featured blog tagged with "poetry." Congrats to Matt for getting this off the ground finally! There was a time when I would enthusiastically write poetry, but that ...

Updated and Upgraded

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Migrated to WordPress 2.5 this evening, which was a nice and painless upgrade. In the process I discovered an old and useless plugin that had been left turned on, and disabling that pig made my whole site so much faster - it was killing me to find the reason why ...

Hosting nightmares

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I had to change web hosts. The old one was down way too often. Unfortunately, this one seems to be not without their own set of issues. Still trying to find out why Unicode characters didn't import right into the database and why .htaccess configurations continue to fail. Hmmm... Oh and ...

Clobber and rewrite

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

It's time to redesign. I'll use my traditional method of blowing everything away and starting from scratch. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today. Noticed some of my categories are missing. This is a first for me - usually the upgrades go pretty well. I wonder what design I'll come up with... I also ...

Pimp my Reader

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I am a fan of the Google Reader application for managing my RSS subscriptions. The advantage of having all my feeds organized in one convenient web repository is proving to be quite handy (much as del.icio.us has been for bookmarks) and I like Readers' own ability to produce new RSS ...