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Just so you know…

Even though my site now looks an awful lot like 4 corners dark from a distance, it’s unintentional! Really, it is! I like the look of soma fm, my favorite streaming radio station, liked their fonts and “borrowed” some of their CSS. The darker background, while not quite 18% gray, does show off images better [...]


Pulling data back

People have data sitting on multiple social networks, search engines indexing their mail and serving up ads based on private content, and photos shared around the world on hosting sites. Each one of them has their own privacy policy, and each one requires you to have some level of trust that they’re going to protect [...]


New layouts

If you’re reading this, I’m sure you’ve noticed that things have moved around. The texty, networking, journaly blog is now at http://www.kataan.org/blog, and the main page is dedicated to my photo works. I may end up getting a new domain for one of them, but for the time being I’m sharing.
The only problem is that [...]


Still can’t find a template!

There are literally hundreds of Wordpress templates out there. I’ve got close to a hundred installed into my site already.
Widgets are great - they’re pre-made sidebar items that save me from having to hand-hack sidebar table entries. Most of my hesitation to switch templates was because I’d customized a template so much that it would [...]


Upgraded to Wordpress 2.1

I just upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.1. If you notice anything odd, please let me know by commenting on this entry.
I’m considering keeping this blog as a technical blog and splitting out my photos into a separate blog. Thoughts? I’d like to build an audience, and a personal / photo / work / technical [...]


Wordpress 2.0 — up and running!

(self-indulgent gloating follows…)
I’ve got WordPress 2.0 up and running. I’ve got the new subscribe feature working. (Click on the “subscribe” button above to be notified by email when I update the ‘blog…). The new Akismet SPAM filter is catching 100% of my comment spam. The new backup/restore feature saves a copy of my MySQL database [...]