When Brains Fly

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 [...]

Finally, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4 and installed Akismet seemingly successfully. Spam be gone! I also set up svn upgrading of WordPress so that I don’t have to do so many steps next time around.
For reference, I used:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups to backup my stuff first
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress to do the upgrade
And then realizing that I could upgrade by [...]

I think this blog has paid off! I’ve used what I wrote in this post on remote desktop many times already because I just can’t remember how to do it right whenever working with a new mac. Plus, it is now the first result when you google “remote desktop into mac os x”, even without [...]

OMG Why do I get so much spam and no real comments?! Ugh.
Anyway.
TODO list for this site:

update blogroll
maybe change the images
make link to comments more visible from front page (e.g. at end of post)
update biographical info
add $$ to web hosting account
make text less wide looking
add adsense?
Make top links more distinctive or move [...]

After using Movable Type for an hour or so and trying to customize it, I found it to be irritatingly slow. I tried installing the Open Source version, but it was not much faster. It would take around 30 seconds to publish and 20 seconds to go to a different admin page, which got really [...]

Installing Movable Type is pretty simple. Unfortunately, I still messed it up, multiple times. So, for my reference and for yours, here are the steps to installing Movable Type on my web server.
This site is hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN), which is an awesome, pay-for-what-you-use hoster. It already has the right PHP and Perl things installed [...]

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