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New brooms…belated New Year’s resolution?

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Ahh…it’s always nice to clean house every once in a while, I upgraded the server a bit, upgraded my Wordpress, changed the theme…and also to sit down to do some write-ups on the ol’ blog after just not finding the time for such a long time. Here’s what I’ve been up to since the start of 2009:

- Working a lot (quite some stress, but we’re getting there)
- Teaching (great fun)
- Following The Big Bang Theory, Fringe and Chuck (very funny, intriguing and quite funny respectively)
- Playing a lot of Rock Band 2 with my good friends Robert and Liesbeth (first 100% for a bass line on Expert!)
- Playing way too much Rome Total War…thanks for getting me hooked, Rob! ;-)

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Small theme update

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I did just a small visual update to my theme (which I still quite like) today, mainly introducing a background slightly darker at the top to more emphasise the start of the page, changing the logo at the top and changing the font for headings and the tabs to the left to Georgia, a nice serif typeface to introduce a bit more variety to the blog, and changed the text color scheme to a more classical feel. I also added a small ‘about‘ page.

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I quite like this theme

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Yes I do.
My old theme, however cool-looking, depended very heavily on A) a huge wide banner image at the top and B) dynamic image replacement for the post titles. Result: long loading times. And of course I sometimes have the attention span of a stressed hamster on meth,thus I got bored with the look.

This theme, by the way, is called GenkiTheme 1.0, and is available right here. Of course I’ve edited it here and there, but I kind of dig the cleanliness while still looking colorful and…well…cheery.

Hope you dig it too.

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Getting my brain detailed

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

The blog is low on updates now, I’m getting my brain detailed on a VMware training this week.

In case you’re wondering: it’s pretty good. Good teacher, and I’m actually learning some new facts and features here and there. Plus the lunches are good ;-)

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WordPress 2.5.1 is out.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The first update for WordPress 2.5 is out, aptly numbered 2.5.1. Get it and upgrade, it’s quite painless ;-)

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.5

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The long-awaited WordPress 2.5 was released this weekend, and of course I just had to try it.

The upgrade process is as easy as always:

  • Make a backup,
  • Deactivate your plugins,
  • Overwrite your current WordPress directory from the downloaded TARball,
  • Login and run the automatic upgrade scipt,
  • Activate your plugins,
  • Done!

The admin interface is quite different when you log in, but the new dashboard is easy to get used to and use, so no major learning curve ahead. I found all the features I used before very quickly, and everything works fine as expected. For my blog the upgrade broke nothing in my customisation, so the upgrade was extremely painless.

Get the upgrade.

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Another blog bites the dust

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Yes…well…ahem…erm…I guess I’ll give my blog another chance. The previous incarnations died because I either wanted to post too much which took up way too much time, or I restricted myself too much which meant I just didn’t have the content to put up.

I’ve also got rid of my previous default name ‘mark01′, mainly because people (i.e.: non-geeks) didn’t get it and thought my name was Marko (which it isn’t).

So, without further ado, here it is: Marked. All me, with loads of artificial additives.

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