When Brains Fly

All right, I folded. I inverted every color on this site and tweaked them a bit. Much more readable, although slightly less “cool.”
Here is the old site look, for posterity:

Since I myself was having trouble reading through the paragraphs of the last post, I decided to look on the internet for why that might be and solutions for that. This was a useful post. I guess my eyes are just not well suited for light text on dark backgrounds, which stinks because I really [...]

Yesterday, I spent much of the day playing around with Javascript and PHP. I had the idea to create a simple web front-end to access the Weewar API and control bots, an alternative to the current main method of controlling bots, which is to use existing non-web-based Java programs to call the API or use [...]

I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to figure out why my HTTP GET request was hanging on input. I had had this problem a few days ago and solved it somehow, but I completely forgot how. It turns out, I just forgot to put a blank line at the end of my GET [...]

Is this color scheme readable? White text on black / dark blue background? Let me know if it’s not. I think it’s mostly fine, although there are times when it feels harder to read paragraphs in my blog than it does elsewhere with black text on white.
Also, let me know what you think of [...]

As part of a new hobby/freelance project, I’ve been trying out the Citrus Framework, an integration test framework written in Java for SOA application. It’s quite neat and interesting. Right now, I’m using it mostly for testing sequences of HTTP GET and POST requests, and it works pretty nicely so far, although I did have [...]

I have to look this up so many times that I figured I should just blog about it and have it in one easy-to-find place. =)
Text/cursor control:

Alt-B / Alt-F
Move the cursor backward/forward one word

Ctrl-W / Alt-D
Delete one word to the left/right

Ctrl-A / Ctrl-E
Move the cursor to the beginning/end of the line

Ctrl-U / Ctrl-K
Erase line [...]

It’s kinda funny that I have only been updating lately when something goes wrong with my computer. Oh well, until I have more time, that’s how it will be.
Lately, my hard drive has been having major startup problems. It would whir and clackle when trying to start after a night or a few hours off [...]

Through my university’s membership in the MSDNAA program, I acquired Windows 7 Professional for free! Whoo! I backed up my laptop yesterday onto my external hard drive (took up 16gb) and am installing Windows 7 now (which takes about 16gb!), wiping out everything. Hopefully it goes well.
Started around 5:45 or so.
Update 5:50pm – I [...]

I wasn’t really liking the Brain Power theme anymore, so I decided to make my own using the handy-dandy WordPress Theme Generator and then tweaked the details to my liking. It looks better now, in my opinion.
Hopefully these changes plus the smackdown on spam will encourage me to blog some more. (Comments will still be [...]