I bought two more domains today in preparation for a new site I’m making. I realized today that I own six domain names, and none of them really serve any purpose. How many domains do you need to own before they take away your nerd card and give you the platinum nerd card […]

To add yet another language to the ever-expanding list of languages I know well enough to get by but have far from mastered, in the past week or two at work I’ve needed to play with Javascript a lot. I’ve long thought of Javascript as the bane of my existence, if only for the […]

Someone recently mentioned that author comment links in my blog were all given a nofollow attribute. So I wrote a plugin that removes nofollow from comment author links. If you search around it’s not hard to find a million other plugins that do the same thing. Putting something like this into /wp-content/plugins […]

I put my old Wordpress theme up for download as requested. Enjoy. I think.

I’ve read that good website layouts evolve slowly over time, and it’s better to change and improve the layout you’ve already got rather than redo the whole thing from scratch. Probably sage advice. I tweaked my layout a bit to take more advantage of a bunch of empty space where nothing much was […]

I added the option to subscribe to the comments for any post in my blog (to receive an email when new comments are posted). You don’t have to post a comment yourself to subscribe. This was accomplished via this Wordpress plugin.

Recently I switched one of my websites to a VPS server.  It’s so much better than shared hosting.  Even if I do still share a physical machine with N other people, as a VPS I have full root access which makes things much better.
I made the mistake of trying “managed” hosting first, which means the […]

If anyone reading this can suggest a hosting service that offers SSH access and the ability for me to install any software I want, at a reasonable price ($40 a month or less), please do.  I am becoming more and more dissatisfied with my current host (Lunarpages).  Their server becomes unresponsive at the drop of […]

Note to self: login_generator is a good thing to use when you want dirt-simple authentication for Rails. It was also thankfully very easy to transfer to my server, where I don’t have root access or the ability to install gems. I only required me to upload a couple files to the lib and […]

Maybe it’s sleep depravation from being up since before 5AM today. But I decided to go crazy with colors on my blog. We’ll see what I think of this come morning.
Also I updated my .vimrc and removed some of the old crusty crappy Perl scripts I had uploaded a year ago. They […]