You might notice a slightly different look to the blog today, compared to yesterday (or the last time you visited). I switched from Srini G’s Fluid Blue theme (which I’ve been using ever since I moved to WordPress) to his updated F2 theme (which is basically Fluid Blue optimized for WordPress 3.x). Other than moving [...]
Archive of posts filed under the blogging category.
The “nonline” blog
Inspired by shows like iCarly, my daughter has turned the whiteboard in her room into what she calls her “nonline blog.”
“More” means less
I just discovered the “More” tag in WordPress. Since some of my posts tend to be long and contain a lot of images, using the “More” tag will a) make me focus on writing better and more interesting introductory paragraphs to my posts and b) provide a cleaner, shorter home page that loads faster with [...]
Sent from my iPhone
I’m writing this post on my iPhone using the WordPress app. It doesn’t have the kitchen sink features of the browser-based interface (for example, you can’t insert hyperlinks — I added that from the web after the post was published), but it seems good for writing basic posts or editing existing ones.
The Great Firewall of China
If you follow any tech news or podcasts you’ve most likely read or heard about China’s national firewall that the government uses to block its citizens from accessing “objectionable” material on the internet. My wife and sister are experiencing the effects first-hand during their stay in China this week. My sister first discovered that she [...]
Old tech, good times
I’ve imported all of the posts (about 50) from my old TechToys blog into this one, so any post older than my first one (on March 25, 2008) is from there, dating back to 1999! It’s fun to look back and see some of the old tech I’ve gone through over the past 10 years.
One year anniversary
I started chmod 644 one year ago today! Since then I’ve posted over 170 “articles” and readership has jumped to about 5 people! Thanks for sticking around … here’s to another year of random thoughts and rants.
I’ve Switched to WordPress
I’d been using Blogger intermittently since 2002 but didn’t start using it for “real” blogging until about a year ago. The latest Blogger problem finally gave me the incentive I needed to look into other blogging solutions. Based on a recommendation from a co-worker, I’ve switched to WordPress (so that’s why the site looks different [...]
Blogger’s site feeds are not working
A few days ago someone pointed out to me that the RSS feed of my blog was empty, throwing an error: XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: http://www.windracer.net/blog/atom.xml Line Number 1, Column 1: I checked the atom.xml file on my server (I host this blog myself, not on Google’s servers) and found that it [...]
The age of the personal “home” page …
… has long passed, I know. These days a person’s presence on the ‘net is usually defined by a social networking profile (like Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn), maybe a personal blog (like this one), or a Twitter feed. Gone are the days when people crafted their own home pages, hosted by their ISPs (or places [...]
