Archive

Listed are the posts for October 2007.

Good behavior in Bad Behavior

As of this very minute of writing:

Bad Behavior has blocked 1011 access attempts in the last 7 days.

In the last couple days, BB was blocking only three to four hundred a week. And now it has more than doubled. It probably hit a thousand while I was either asleep or having my E-Math Paper 2. [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Dual blogging… again?

The prime reason why I started BoltChronicles was because I was blogging about such a big mix of the Internet and my real life. I know most tech bloggers throw in life journal entries once in a while, and I would but right now many of my life posts don’t look like they belong here. [...] One comment. Read the complete article »


Earthtones WordPress plugin

I’ve just installed what I could call my favorite WordPress Admin Panel plugin, Earthtones by John of Holstein Grove. The Earthtones plugin gives your Admin Panel a new paint job, replacing the traditional blue hue with faded, soft shades of green and brown: a real foresty feeling. I’ve always loved nature, and I’m glad my [...] 3 comments. Read the complete article »


Internet Explorer 7 on my PC

Huzzah, Internet Explorer 7 has finally made it to my PC. In fact, I’m writing this post right from IE7.
I once said I wouldn’t ever install IE7 until I got a new PC, but the fact that IE7 no longer needs Windows Genuine Advantage validation tempted me, since whenever I needed help testing my web [...] 4 comments. Read the complete article »


BoltPress goes Pink for October!

Remember in my recent Newgrounds aside I said that BoltPress wouldn’t be going pink this year?
I wasn’t kidding about not having time to design a theme this year, but upon saying that I figured I should just pick a ready-made P4O theme and use it. So here I am.
If you haven’t figured out yet, I’m [...] One comment. Read the complete article »


Newgrounds goes Pink for October!

Even the lovely Newgrounds wants to raise public awareness of breast cancer, by going Pink for October. BoltPress won’t be going Pink for October this year as I didn’t have time to make a WordPress theme, but I’ll be, uh, aware Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Simple Tags & Click Tags plugins

I’ve just installed the (new) Simple Tags plugin, and in the first minute of trying it out I’m already impressed! You ought to get this plugin, it’s one of the best supplements to the already robust WordPress 2.3 core tagging system, with features like:

Ajax tag suggestion
Ajax tag autocomplete
Easy tag management (before this I was living [...] 3 comments. Read the complete article »


Drupal and WordPress integration

Weblog Tools Collection has reported on a new Drupal module that integrates Drupal with WordPress.
Yes, WordPress is by itself a great CMS, but since it wasn’t designed to be one, but instead a blog, Drupal is in many aspects more versatile, and with the ability to integrate both together, I can imagine lots of [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


50 years of Sputnik

Sputnik 1, the first satellite of the historic Russian Sputnik program, was launched exactly fifty years ago today. Google celebrates by adorning their logo with a Sputnik orbit theme.
In Soviet Russia, the Earth orbits Sputnik 1! OWAIT Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Learned Python… with no basic knowledge

If you’re not a programmer, you won’t be able to understand half of this post. You could try though, but I’m not forcing anyone.
The gist of this whole post was that all I did was write a few painfully simple lines of Python, have an idea to run it through the parser, do so, and [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »