Archive for December, 2004

Raindrops on Roses and Comments on Photos

I’m a few days late with this, but what the heck – I took the weekend off. Anyhow, the online photo gallery allows anyone to comment on any photo, which is neat. The only trouble is that there’s no (built-in) provision for viewing the most recent comments. Out of the box, you’d need to go [...]

We've Got Stats! (again)

I used to use AWStats to analyze my web server logs. Since migrating to this new server, I hadn’t gotten around to installing a log analyzer. I was going to finally re-install AWStats the other night, but figured that while I was starting over I’d make the switch to Analog (supplemented by Report Magic) instead. [...]

And the winner is… BLOG

Via BoingBoing, I just found out that Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was “Blog”. Personally, “defenestration” (which came it at number 10) has been one of my favorite words for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was honestly thrilled to find out that words like that actually existed. [...]

New Style

I finally got fed up with the out-of-the-box WordPress style. Aesthetics aside, it was just too hard the read – the font choice sucked, and there was a lot of light-grey text over a white background. There’s supposed to be support for themes in the next version of WordPress, but the interim solution I opted [...]