Archive for February 7th, 2008

Sunny side up

While the rest of the world wails in despair about all their respective boo-boos, things are better in Me-ville(population: 1). Things are actually going quite well, owing to the fact that I’m waking up on time and I can do whatever I want. Sure my room smells strongly of bleach, and is a mess, and the exams approach, but I’m oddly satisfied.

Maybe it’s the subwoofer playing pounding bass drums from Children of Bodom’s “Are you dead yet” blowing air below my table, and gently tickling my legs, or maybe it’s the cup of watery, but warm coffee in my hand, or maybe it’s because I don’t remember anything else important left to do(thought it doesen’t mean there isn’t any).

I’m not able to think of anything interesting enough to write about, but here are a couple of interesting things I’ve been reading:

Number Spirals:

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This is an interesting mathematical experiment, where they take a number line, roll it into a spiral and some almost pseudo random properties like prime numbers start having patterns in them. A very interesting read. [Link]

The new firebug:

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Firebug is my favorite firefox extension which is infinitely powerful if you need to debug anything web oriented, and a new version is out with FF3b support. It’s a bit of a memory hog, but it’s insanely flexible and has an amazing amount of features. [Link]

Also, my quote for today, said in front of Biloos:

“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, because they might have bird flu.”

Housekeeping

There have been lots of changes around here, mainly I fixed the faulty wordpress install and things seem to be back to normal.

Changelog:

  • Deleted old wordpress install, and reinstalled latest version via fantastico.
  • Imported old posts and comments, though categories are lost
  • Changed my desktop blog client to Post2Blog, which is out of development and is good enough for regular use.
  • Almost all plugins are disabled, and good riddance, which has bought the speed up tremondously.
  • Updated the blogroll
  • Fixed commenting and have used two antispam plugins, which makes life so much easier to moderate.
  • I’ve gone back to good ol’ k2, and this is the SVN build, that means it’s the latest, greatest and most bleeding edge version of the theme. There are tons of awesome cool features, and I won’t be going back to my old theme anytime soon.
  • Cut down most of the content from the "about me" page, made it less stuck-up-my-own-assy.

Basically, a lot of housekeeping is finished up, and things look fine and bug free now. I’ll try to customize the theme sometime.

Also, the site looks absolutely gorgeous in safari, and everything seems to hold together on internet explorer which I am very thankful for. Yes, things look like rat turd on IE6. Also, the paracetamol hasn’t kicked in yet :(

Current music: Radiohead, "Paranoid Android"

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