One Fine Jay

A confession

I don’t do feed readers, for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, if I subscribed to every blog that I read, I would have a ton of unread items. Now, if I have an application that glaringly tells me that I have not read 30 out of the 40 articles in the folder, it… Continue reading this entry

Belated spring cleaning

Got lots to do for beautiful sunday: Burn CD backups of hardware installers in my ISO library. Burn backup CDs of even more stuff. Clear out My Documents folder and sort it. Really folks. I’m anal enough about My Documents that it shouldn’t host user docs. That folder’s root is usually just full of application… Continue reading this entry

Bulletfest

Short and sweet political tidbits: Sharon and the Gaza pullout: a perspective in responsibility, from David Frum. Found from Tinkerty Tonk. I haven’t seen a more Machiavellian point about it, but I think it will drive the point home. On Judge Roberts, from Professor Steven Taylor. You know, he may not have been suave about… Continue reading this entry

Got fish?

One thing that I have observed among my American friends is that few have ever really enjoyed the pleasure of eating a fish in a very “natural” fashion. Much of the fish they have encountered involves fillets of one way or another, devoid of character. You folks are missing so much pleasure in digging into… Continue reading this entry

More SG1 Season 9

Y’know, she may have been annoying and the comic relief was quite excessive, but I’m going to miss Vala. Just for the record. Here’s what I thought of SG1′s season 9 after the first three eps; I will admit that I really like the direction this season’s storyline has taken. UPDATE: Lurking around the Gateworld… Continue reading this entry

Trails

One thing that has taken a lot of my free, online time is just hopping from one site to another, in the spirit of what the web was (and still is) about. Aside from blogs, I’ve taken a liking to some liesurely reading of Wikipedia articles. Though the neutrality and even the factuality of the… Continue reading this entry

Blaming the messenger

I’ve been studying the CSS for the SlatyStain theme; it’s a pretty ingenious use of image backgrounds to layout the boxes and all that. I’m looking into using similar techiniques (like faking rounded corners using a header BG image, but I don’t do rounded corners) to improving Shiva’s CSS, because I am having problems with… Continue reading this entry

WordPress Update

Version 1.5.2 is out. Here’s a changelog skimmed from the trac. Also, the security upgrade this morning from Podz is included.