In light of the continued decline in performance of my previous hosting provider, I’ve decided to switch to Dreamhost several months before my hosting contract runs out. [Also, I got a great deal.] Now, when I use the WordPress dashboard, I don’t have to wait five minutes every time I click a link. This may [...]
I’m experimenting with the new Google font api. The font I’m using for the blog title is Vollkorn and the rest of the text is formatted using Crimson Text. The two fonts appear quite similar to my untrained eye, so I may eventually migrate to using just one.
This website has been slowing down for awhile now. I’m fairly certain that the root cause of the slowdown is the overcrowding of economy servers at GoDaddy. I know, I know. GoDaddy is not what the cool kids are using. Using ssh to login to the server hosting this page, I was able to run [...]
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been doing much more than micro-blogging. Two weeks in Thailand followed by all the catchup here at school has stood between me and putting together new posts. Besides some Google-China conspiracy theories, I don’t really have much lined up in the future. I’m hoping to continue to blog [...]
Oh boy. After a couple of wasted hours of futzing I was finally able to fix the column width issue. All was not lost, as a basic understanding of CSS/HTML is a good thing to have in the toolkit these days. A few debugging tips: Use the Firebug Firefox extension. Look for the largest containing [...]
I should probably figure out why WP-Syntax boxes force the left column of this theme to the left. I’m hoping to crowd source this problem to the spam bots. Any Akismet captured commenter that knows how to fix my CSS will get unblocked for life. Free link dumps! Sigh.
I’ve been playing around with a new theme by Onehertz. Since I was accumulating all kinds of side-matter, I felt the need to move to a three column format. This particular choice seemed the most customizable and has numerous options under the hood (so many that the theme has its own wiki). The best part, [...]
When I was growing up my parents went through some lengths to make sure that I was well-rounded. The term well-rounded seemed to signify a kind of suburban trivium of sports, music, and various other school activities, though upon repetition, lost any kind of original meaning and because something more like an abstract concept — [...]
For some reason, having daily Twitter digest updates really annoys me. Who wants to read a blog that consists of digests of low content Twitter messages? I’d turn off the feature permanently, but my OCD demands that I archive all my online prognostication in one place. So I’ve switched to weekly digests. But you don’t [...]
I recently redesigned the header for this blog, using this neat header creation tool on a photo I found while surfing Wikimedia Commons. In previous iterations of the header, I tried to “design” my own based somewhat on the abstract notion of depth-first search. My first effort was marginal at best: During a lull one [...]