brainwagon

Okay, today is February 6, which means that my revolvermap that you can see over in the left margin has been up one entire year. Right now, it’s showing 148,950 visits since it’s inception. I suspect a couple of thousand of those are actually me, but I’m pretty happy that so many people stumble their [...]

I’ve been making some minor tweeks to the excellent 1024 px WordPress theme that I started using a few weeks ago. I found a small issue with the CSS for images that are supposed to be center (a priority mistake meant it didn’t work) and I’ve made a few other minor tweaks. I finally got [...]

I am a long time reader of Hack A Day. It’s a great website, and often details projects that I find interesting well before they are picked up on other sites. It also tends to drive significant amounts of traffic to sites mentioned, so it’s good publicity for many interesting objects. But lately, their comment [...]

Glancing to the side bar, it appears that today in 2002 was the first post on my blog. This should be post number 3,690. I’ve had 2,286 comments. I’ve used 110 category tags. Over the 12 months, Akismet has removed 193,915 spam comments, and there have been 798 pieces of “ham”. The peak month for [...]

My blog may be unavailable for a short time today as I perform some needed upgrades. If all goes well, any down time should last only a few minutes. Don’t despair! I’ll be back shortly. Addendum: Upgrade seemed to go smoothly and without any problems. If you are experiencing any strangeness, try refreshing this page. [...]

It was a convenient time to renew my blog’s hosting plan over the weekend, so I made my payment and you can be assured that the brainwagon blog (which as many as a dozen of you inexplicably read) will be available for another 12 months. It got me thinking about the many bloggers I know [...]

I was listening to Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast as I was commuting this morning, and found that Steve Gibson said something which clarified how I feel about Facebook and Twitter. Lots of people are upset about Facebook privacy concerns. I’m not really among them. If I post something on Facebook, I [...]

Over the last couple of days, weeks, and even months, I’ve been pondering my participation in various social media: mostly my efforts at blogging and podcasting, but also my participation in things like Facebook and Twitter, as well as the possibility of using things like YouTube. I thought I’d toss out some ideas and ask [...]

Just testing the wordpress application for the iPhone.

There is a new security update for WordPress, which I’ve already installed without any serious mishap/problems. If you run WordPress, you might think about giving it an upgrade. Technorati Tags: WordPress, Blogging, Security Addendum: I’ve been having minor problems with the Dashboard in this release not displaying correctly.  I’m still trying to figure it out.

Yep, it’s another release of WordPress, mostly fixing some open bugs/problems from the 2.0 release.  I’ll be upgrading to this in the next couple of days, so expect a minor amount of downtime in the next day or two. WordPress Development Blog › 2.0.1 Release Technorati Tags: WordPress, Blogging

Here’s a useful little chunk of Javascript which can probably be put to good use on your website: Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. It works quite well, and is also somewhat instructive. I [...]

Well, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Like all previous upgrades that I’ve performed, this one seems to have gone without a hitch, and all things that I expected to work seems to work just fine. The biggest change that is immediately visible is the new posting interface, which uses a WYSIWG type interface. It seems [...]

I think I’m gonna try to upgrade to WordPress 2 on the 2nd. If you can’t reach this site, you’ll know what’s up. See you when I’m back alive!

It appears that version 2.0 of WordPress is available for download. I’ll try to give a head’s up when I’ll upgrade.