I took a screenshot of my blog and went into Gimp and did Colors => Invert and thus a new blog layout was born. I also brought back the purple/green one. You can change it via the little skin-selector drop-down thing that’s hopefully showing up and working properly for everyone. Skin […]

“OK, what’s up with the cows?”, you might ask. Actually no one ever has asked. So I’m not saying.
I’m experimenting a bit with a new blog layout. It’s black text on white rather than my customary white text on black/grey. I drew the cow in the top right using Inkscape. […]

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.

I decided once again that I need a new blog layout. It’ll be coming in a day or two. This current one is too big and clunky. I was looking over my previous layouts from over the years, just now. So much time I’ve spent making those things, and then I […]

I updated my layout to be even more cow-like. My girlfriend made me a cow-themed top banner which I think looks good enough to eat. I often wish I had any kind of graphic design skill, but I don’t. Not nearly as good as her, anyways.
It’s always so hard to find a […]

I use Wordpress for my blog. A database is used to store the posts themselves. Wordpress uses PHP to move data into and out of the database. Obviously the blog itself is displayed as HTML.
This means there are potentially three levels of escaping and un-escaping done to my text after I type […]

I decided to add a “Gentoo” tag to each post in my WordPress blog that has a “Linux” tag on it now. Reason being that Gentoo is the only Linux flavor I use, and Gentoo deserves some lovin’.
However I didn’t want to just change the name of the “Linux” category to “Gentoo”. I […]