Monthly Archives: March 2009

No more MTA

Written by skoch. Posted on March 30, 2009. Filed under motorcycle, ping pong. Tagged , , . No comments.
What a joy it’s been riding to work. Even though it’s still slightly chilly in the AM I’m happy to get out there and ride. Today I even took a long route (happy mistake) and rode down Stuyvesant a while and then turned around and came back up Bedford to Myrtle and then to work. [...]

Zen and the art of …

Written by skoch. Posted on March 25, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
One advantage to the upgrade to WordPress is that I can write while on the train or in this case when I have insomnia. Will this prove to be useful? Doubtful. But right now it appears to be a good way to waste time until I have to get up. Watchmen: I was impressed. Quite [...]

Hemingway Stile

Written by skoch. Posted on March 20, 2009. Filed under celebrity, wordpress. Tagged , . No comments.
After the migration the next step was to decide on a suitable theme. Since I am not a designer and although I am a coder, I despise working with CSS. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s amazing. I’m just no good at it. I leave that to the professionals. And here we are with a [...]

Hello (again) WordPress

Written by skoch. Posted on March 19, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged . No comments.
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Goodbye Chyrp. Chyrp was really pissing me off what with the steps needed to upgrade to the latest version (of which I was not notified) and the themes not behaving I figured it isn’t worth it anymore. Too much of a hastle. Chyrp, you were a good friend for a brief time however I have to [...]

CSS still sucks

Written by skoch. Posted on March 19, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
It does and you know it. After attempting a debug of all the Twig errors I said fuck it. Just grab the CSS sheet from the theme that was throwing the errors and replace it in a working theme. A few tweaks et voila. But CSS still sucks. I’ve settled on this Brockmann-esque theme … for [...]

WTF

Written by skoch. Posted on March 17, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
I’ve tried the chyrp thing, I really have but for chrissake, there seems to be no support what-so-ever. I love the idea. I love the simplicity. But for fuckssake can we please get a few themes that actually work? I’ve found a couple that I do like however when I implement them I get a shit-ton [...]