Switched to Hybrid WordPress theme
I had been using my woodgrain-styled custom WordPress theme for a while, but recently I got a little tired of it. It hid too much of the navigation in a clever little sliding javascript panel that no one seemed to find to click on. In the meantime, I’m starting to get a better idea of [...]
My 2010 Blogging in Review
This is a graphic summary of the most commonly used words in my blog posts in 2010.
WP Greet Box is Great
I just installed a new WordPress plugin called WP Greet Box. It’s responsible for the nifty little “Welcome, X user!” (for values of X that include Google, Bing, Facebook, etc.) that you see when you visit my website. I had been wanting something like this for a while, and long-time readers might remember that I [...]
200+ posts
Wow – my blog finally reached 200 posts after several years of writing. I guess it has taken me this long because I try to keep this site the place where I put substantive content, not the pithy, sarcastic stuff I’m more likely to throw on Facebook. Altogether, it’s a pretty big milestone for me. [...]
Liturgical WordPress, part deux
Speaking of changing the color of your website based on the liturgical calendar, Scott Lenger has up on his site a WordPress plugin to do exactly that. I can’t decide if that’s good or bad. I’ve been thinking of a site re-design for a while, and I blame Dean for getting me started on it [...]
Why bother blogging?
Sometimes I really wonder why I bother. I’m not getting all depressive and “woe is me” about it, but I find that I often hang too many hopes on how successful my website is. I have a few dozen regular readers, about a thousand visitors a month (who are mostly interested in technical information I [...]
Blogfodder
I suppose some people just blog everything they see, but I like to let things ruminate for a while. I keep a “Blogfodder” file in Tomboy where I paste URLs (with a little note about what they are) and then go back a few days later and look at them again. The things that stand [...]