Eengstro on October 13th, 2008

Okay, I’ve become annoyed enough that it’s time to simplify this blog.
The first to go: WPG2. I hardly knew you, but while I did, you were nothing but a pain in the ass. Good bye.
I haven’t decided about the K2 theme yet. There’s potential here — if it’s ever finished. Moreover, changing something as simple [...]

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Eengstro on June 11th, 2008

My TF2 glitches, now available as a gallery!

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Eengstro on June 9th, 2008

I’m giving the K2 theme a whirl to see if I like it. So, expect some breakage over the next couple of days.
I’ve already found a couple of issues. The “Advanced Navigation” is broken, so I’ve disabled it — easy to do in K2’s control page. Images wider than the main column aren’t being shrunk [...]

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Eengstro on April 25th, 2008

A test of Wordpress 2.5’s new Gallery functionality, using my favorite subject as of late: Team Fortress 2 rendering glitches!
Sigh.

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Eengstro on April 25th, 2008

Stuff gets broken.
Trying to upload my latest and greatest TF2 glitch pics results in an “HTTP error”:

OK so far…

Bummer, denied! Thank you so much, asshole.
By the way, I had to upload these screenshots by hand with an FTP client.
Update: It looks like the problem was with the Bad Behavior plugin. Upgrading it to the latest [...]

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Eengstro on October 2nd, 2007

More than 90% of the traffic to this blog is merely spambots trying to post spam as comments and trackbacks. Akismet catches almost all of it, so I can mostly ignore it. However, that traffic places an undue burden on the server and clogs my access logs. Since there’s very little real commenting on this [...]

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Eengstro on July 7th, 2007

I was logged into my blog with IE (I usually use Firefox) when I noticed the following button at the bottom of every admin page:

This takes you to a page that declares, “Internet Explorer can make your computer unsafe. Why not switch to a browser that’s more secure?”. This button only appears when using WordPress [...]

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Eengstro on June 12th, 2007

When I recently re-enabled comments, I enabled the Akismet plugin for Wordpress. I was starting to wonder where all the comment spam was…

As the screenshot shows, in the few days that Akismet has been running on this blog, it caught 146 spam comments. There were no false positives, and no spam escaped. Sweet!
TAKE THAT, [...]

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Eengstro on June 6th, 2007

I’ve been looking for a new theme for my blog recently. I want something simple, with few distracting graphics or bright colors. I also want a theme that adjusts itself to the width of the browser window. After playing around with several themes, I finally settled on the blog.txt theme. It bills itself as a [...]

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Eengstro on June 4th, 2007

OK, I’ll try allowing comments again. I’m entering commentland this time with the attitude that “yes, I’ll have to do some moderation”. That’s OK, as long as the spam doesn’t get out of hand.

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