It’s time for a change. I’ve been using my old K2 style for who-knows-how-long, so when I saw Steve Lam’s “True Blue” style, I knew I had to try it out. After a little tweaking, it’s not perfect, but looks good enough for the moment. Do you see any problems with it? Here’s what the…Continue Reading…
My comments on an article from a few years back called What the Bubble Got Right. I found myself talking recently to someone from Hollywood who was planning a show about nerds. I thought it would be useful if I explained what a nerd was. What I came up with was: someone who doesn’t expend…Continue Reading…
I’d been running 2.0.1 since it was released, and I skipped over all the intermediate releases until today’s release: WordPress 2.1. This seems to be quite a major upgrade. It seemed to go smoothly, but it’s hard to tell with these things. If you notice any hiccups, let me know. One problem I have noticed:…Continue Reading…
I was about to write something really awesome in my blog, but my roommate asked to check out the fingerprint reader in my new laptop (which I was happy to show him), and then I forgot what I was going to write. It’s regrettable, but I truly have a terrible memory. If I were to…Continue Reading…
I just upgraded Google Community vBulletin. I thought they had better ways to fight spam, but not so: they use image verification, no matter how complex it is. The more weird-looking the images get, the harder it is for real humans to read them. Sometimes, computers can even read images (using OCR) better than humans…Continue Reading…
I have a scribble space over on BlogSpot. It’s partly a test ground for the Blogger beta, which I’m very impressed with, and partly a place for me to jot down ideas which aren’t good enough to be full-fledged posts. I’ve dubbed it Written Rough Drafts, and this is my first time revealing it to…Continue Reading…