Thought bucket

Apparently due to my failure to read directions, comments have been broken on this site for a looooooooooooooooong time.  So now they are fixed, I expect everyone to bless me with their profound wisdom.  

So, the blogging has slowed a bit, but that’s a good thing. Yes, Episode IV of my “Reviving your old PC” series is in progress and on its way. You gotta wait for quality, folks. But last night I started and interesting new project that took over my brain and had me up most of [...]

WordPress powers 14.7 per cent of the top million web sites – The H Open Source: News and Features. I knew WordPress was popular, but jeepers!

In my spare time, when my brain simply demands that I stop writing PHP and Javascript and start writing English for a little, I’ve been working up a miniseries of articles on reviving an old computer with help from Linux. I know the topic’s probably been done to death, but since tinkering with old and [...]

Well, as long as I’m doing stuff to the site, that main page needed an overhaul BAD!!!! So I rearranged the menu, created a new stylesheet, and removed all the fanboyish anti-IE nonsense. The site looks pretty consistent in IE9, and if you’re using older versions of IE you’re probably going to have to get [...]

Just testing my ability to post from Emacs. Test test test. I’m posting via weblogger.el, but there are some bugs involving timezone offsets that mess with the publishing time.  I’ll see if I can sort those out somehow….

After years of not blogging much to my geekblog, I’ve decided it’s time to join the herd and get a real blog engine behind my writing.  True, I may still not find much time to blog, but at least I can get some experience playing with WordPress  – a worthwhile bit of knowledge for a [...]