As I am sure many of you know, today marks the effort of Earth Hour, a day when people all across the world will turn out their lights for one hour, from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. I modified the theme a little bit to show my support for the effort (although [...]

I have been working on modifying the Minimalia theme by Dale Mugford and Matthew Good, tweaking it here and there to suit my needs. I was planning to wait at least another week before updating the site, but decided its close enough to just work for now. I will continue making changes to it over the [...]

For many years I have scoffed at the idea of backing up my hard drives. Why should I need to do that? Hard drives don’t lose data anymore, they are fine-tuned machines! While this is true, there are a lot of reasons to implement a good backup policy. The most obvious of course is hard-drive failure; [...]

This post is a blank post to test out some new feed options with Feedburner.

Well my Drupal installation failed miserably, so lets give WordPress a shot and see if it goes any better. I’ve been working on a simple web-app for myself to catalog all the (many) files I have stored on DVD-Rs and I used WP’s database connection scheme as a basis for my own. While perusing the WP [...]