Welcome to my shiny new photoblog! There’s still a lot of work to do, but I’m already in love with the potential. I’ve ditched the annoying old Gallery software for the much simpler and cleaner Zenphoto, integrated with WordPress. I still have several things on my todo list, but the site is quite usable and [...]
Oct 252008
I’ve been going through a website midlife crisis lately. What started as a small site to store my photos to share with friends and family (because back then, Webshots was the only online option and it…well…it really, really sucked…) has grown, and I’ve done my best to keep up with it. I’ve tried different solutions [...]
I’m upgrading my Movable Type 4.0 installation to today’s 4.2 RC1 release, so if things get a bit borked for a while, please forgive me while I work out the kinks. See you on the other side!
Apr 242008
As part of my day job as a computer geek, I’ve been spending this week in San Francisco at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo. The Web 2.0 Expo has a lot of people talking about cool technology while not necessarily knowing what to do with it, where it is going, or more importantly, how to [...]
Apr 092008
When I upgraded to Movable Type 4 several months ago, I wasn’t able to find the time to tweak the style to my liking. I just went with one of the default styles and let it go. I’ve noticed a lot of other Movable Type blogs out there with the same style lately and decided [...]
Oct 222007
You may have noticed some changes around here. Mostly good changes, I hope. The first big change is the upgrade to Movable Type 4. Unfortunately my highly customized MT3 theme would not play nice with the new MT4 templates, so I am using one of the new stylesheets. The hills and trees are nice. Next, [...]
Comments actually work
File under General Geekery: It came to my attention a while back that the comment submission procedure on Movable Type 4 (and specifically this blog) was less than elegant. So I turned off the default registration-required settings and set it to allow for anonymous Captcha-filtered comments. But it turns out that this was even a [...]