because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in life, nerdliness on Apr 21st, 2008
Zanshin.net is just a speck of lint under a finger nail on the long arm of the Internet. As a weblog it gets few visitors, and even fewer comments. While the domain has existed for over 11 years now, the site has been formatted as a blog only since December 1999. I have no accurate, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 31st, 2008
Ever since switching my site’s back end over to Wordpress in late December I’ve had to use Camino or Firefox to edit or produce new postings to my site, as there was a bug in the TinyMCE implementation that Wordpress was using. Any entry edited via Safari had all of its <p> tags stripped out [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 1st, 2008
I’ve made some updates to my resume, it now looks like the paper one (more or less). Go have a look, and feel free to pass on any comments or suggestions.
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 15th, 2008
Until I generated a graph of my site, I never knew it contained a sunflower.
(Click on the image to generate one of your own.)
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 5th, 2008
There seem to be two schools of thought regarding comments on personal blogs. Prominent sites like Daring Fireball don’t allow comments, and moreover, explain why. Other equally prominent sites have huge comment threads on nearly every post published.
Zanshin.net is by no means prominent. After nearly eight years of having a blog I [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 30th, 2008
It turns out it is possible to configure Wordpress to make leaving comments almost impossible. Without realizing it, I had done just that here at zanshin.net. The configuration has been updated, so any one should now be able to leave a comment or three, if they so choose.
General Options: Membership
On the Options page, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 28th, 2008
In the seven or so years that I used Moveable Type as my content management system I managed to create 42 categories. Some were catch-all groupings that ended up holding dozens or even hundreds of postings. Others held just a handful or entries, or, in some cases, only one entry.
Switching to Wordpress allowed [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 25th, 2008
The visual editor provided with Wordpress is actually an implementation of TinyMCE. Contained in the Wordpress implementation is coding that checks the browser type. The coding following at least one of the Safari checks strips out all paragraph tags (<p>). This means that any entry you either edit or create using Safari turns in to [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 15th, 2008
I’ve fiddled around with the header image, finally getting the original image in its entirety once again. The cropped image was nice enough, but I prefer the one I’ve had for most of the past decade. The image is a slice of an old Corel wallpaper called Autumn Coast, which I’ve misplaced. [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 5th, 2008
One of the potential drawbacks to switching content management systems for my website was losing the permanent link to specific postings. I receive a fair amount of traffic due to some Google searches, and I have posted comments on a couple of sites that generate a few links per week. I didn’t want [...]
