#Blog

As you noticed… Or perhaps didn’t notice, I’ve started using a new, simplistic theme a couple of days ago.

Kinda thought it might be too simplistic (I’ve hidden the sidebar, there’s no search or archive, etc), but I started to, you know, get attached to it.

So it’s here to stay, for a year or something. I guess.

I’ve also noticed that the long load times on my blog were WP_Buzz’s fault. Nice plugin, but 15 to 45 seconds of load time per uncached page wasn’t really worth it. Hope it can be fixed.

Right, playing around with my blog again. Wasn’t really that happy anymore with my nginx rproxy caching. Especially that for some reason, lately, every (php) request got at least one hit to the backend Apache server, while it used to cache the generated html for 30 mins.

And well, performance just wasn’t good enough. So I said bye to one.rootspirit.com, and hi to vm1.rootspirit.com a couple of days ago. Vm1 is no longer the nginx proxy, but is hosting my whole blog now. No more Apache for me.

… Now has its own host/blog. Riiiiiiiiight here !

Happy 2nd anniversary, blog (yes, I’m a couple of days late ;)).

Just updated the old, somewhat boring theme, to this new white, clear and simple theme.

Let’s see how long it takes me this time before I grow tired of it. ;)

Also Yourls is now fully functional (see page sources for the short URL) on this blog. It’s now also using the yeri.be domain instead of tuinslak.be… Made more sense (length-wise). ;)

The joy of the internet.

Just ‘cause .org is cooler than .be or .eu. I think.

Old links remain operational.

1,000 spams caught, 60 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.528%.

Well, seems like Firefox is the most popular browser visiting this site. And on 2nd place.. Safari?! Who on earth uses Safari? Oh, but I guess mobile device, such as the iPhone & Symbian use webkit/Safari-like browser.

Well, let’s see if Google Chrome gets in that list. If only they’d release it for other OS’es too… :( Seems like good ol’ Windows isn’t that popular anymore.

As you might have noticed, I added some new features.

I’ve been playing around with some plugins.

There’s now a Twitter widget, a simple calendar widget (with links on dates where I posted something), and ‘recent comments’ (not that there are any comments, but I’ve added it).

I had to do some small modifications in my theme, as it wasn’t supporting dynamic widgets, but here it is. Seems to be working fine!

So, after years of ‘why should I have a blog? No one is going to read it anyway…’ I finally made one. Don’t ask me why.

It’s probably going to turn out into a rather tech-blog, as I’m not the kind of person to write down my emotions on the net, or to keep some kind of diary, but nevertheless, hope you’ll enjoy it, or even better, hope someone might read it. ;)