The One With Aldacron

The first post on this blog is dated January 15, 2006. At the end of the first year, I posted a retrospective, fully intending to make it an annual event. But the second and third anniversaries passed by without any comment. I had so much going on on both occasions that it completely slipped my [...]

I’m having fun playing around with the new theme. It’s got a plethora of settings to toy with, plus options for updating PHP/HTML/CSS without modifying the source files directly. This makes it possible to retain settings after updating to a newer version of the theme. It also comes with several custom widgets. I’ve had a [...]

I’ve been insulted and called a lot of different names in comments on a few posts here, mostly those involving piracy. The post titled Regcure Key, which attracts hordes of software pirates looking to steal a copy of RegCure, is the most commented post on the blog (unfortunately, I lost several entertaining comments from that [...]

I’ve finally managed to get a successful upgrade to a very recent version of WordPress. After the last failed attempt, I decided to go about it differently. I’ll tell you what I did in case you run into trouble in the future. First, I went into the admin panel to the manage menu and exported [...]

It’s been two months since I attempted, and failed, to successfully upgrade the blog. That attempt was, IIRC, with WordPress 2.5. Last night I gave it a go with the latest in the 2.6 series. I wound up with the same error I ran into last time. There was no problem viewing the blog, but [...]

For well over two months, I’ve been using Google Chrome in place of Firefox as my primary browser. I was quite impressed with it from the beginning. Two months on, the euphoria has faded. I still have a lot of good things to say about it. But some of the quibbles got on my nerves [...]

The Decider has a moral compass that is pointing in the wrong direction. He can’t sign a bill to spend $35 billion over five years to provide health insurance for children who need it, potentially saving a number of lives, but has no problem spending four times that in one year on sending our soldiers [...]

When I first started this blog, I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into. I had toyed around with blogging before, but never went anywhere with it. And those blogs were related to a topic I really love — game development. I had no idea what I would post on a personal blog. But [...]

Thanks to a post over at Problogger, I learned about the 2007 Bloggies. The site is taking nominations now for the best blogs in several categories. Voting takes place on Jan 22. Both nominations and voting are open to the public, so why not head over there and nominate some of your favorite blogs? I [...]

The upgrade went off without a hitch. Regular programming will resume shortly.