| marked | » blog http://www.kathmann.com geek stuff, real life and some fun Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:58:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New brooms…belated New Year’s resolution? http://www.kathmann.com/2009/02/17/new-broomsbelated-new-years-resolution/ http://www.kathmann.com/2009/02/17/new-broomsbelated-new-years-resolution/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:36:40 +0000 mark http://www.kathmann.com/?p=179 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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]]> http://www.kathmann.com/2008/07/21/small-theme-update/feed/ 0 I quite like this theme http://www.kathmann.com/2008/07/02/i-quite-like-this-theme/ http://www.kathmann.com/2008/07/02/i-quite-like-this-theme/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:18:38 +0000 mark http://www.kathmann.com/?p=63 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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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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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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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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