I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress 3.0 The black theme looks too black for summer, must find something better. Hopefully some PIKANTO-building posts as well as new features and ideas for opencamlib (which nobody reads?) in store for July. Stay tuned.
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This screenshot from google analytics shows visitor statistics from about the two past years. The youtube video I made with Ilkka about his board in July 2008 somehow got posted on some popular surfing or kite-boarding site and suddenly got 2-3000 views. The solar eclipse from August 1st 2008 also seems popular. Anyway, I seem [...]
With the latest wordpress upgrade I decided to switch themes. This one is blacker and wider than the previous one, to make more room for wide pictures and videos.
I’m trying to keep up with the ever increasing volume of scientific publications in my own and related fields. I’ve been using the Biophysical Journal’s email based service for some time, but lately it has been very unreliable – often alerting me about supposedly ‘new’ papers that have been published in 1994 or so. Another [...]
To make the site a bit faster I’ve downloaded and installed wp-cache. It’s supposed to cache frequently accessed pages (like the front page) and potentially speed up the site a lot. Hope it works, you can comment below if you think the site is slower or faster than before. This seems like something so central [...]
There’s a new version of WordPress available, so I’ve upgraded. Unlike brand new buggy closed-source commercial software, I’ve found no problems with 2.3 “Dexter”. I’ve been browsing through a lot of scientific papers lately, and was struck by just how bad Nature’s doi resolving sometime is. Try this for example: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature04268 You get to a [...]
I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress, which now includes drag and drop customization of the sidebar using widgets. A nice new addition to the default install is the ‘Recent Comments’ widget. I had to switch to the new default theme that comes with 2.2, but after the usual mods the look of the site is [...]
I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress, release 2.1 Hopefully everything works as before. Funnily, the biggest new thing (besides ‘boring’ security fixes) advertized with 2.1 is a new visual editor for posts. But to my surprise I found it was not enabled by default! In the admin panel you need to go Users/Your Profile and [...]
Some notes, mostly for myself, about how I chaged the header image and the way the title is displayed. I bet this will be usefull after the next WordPress update when the theme most likely gets reset back to default. To get a header image that ‘rotates’ i.e. is updated with a new random picture [...]