blog theme change…

it’s about that time again…

i decided to change my theme. no good reason. i just got bored of my old one.

i took the “sweet blossoms” theme, and did some graphics/colour/theme work to it to get it just right. added a tag cloud, my photo roll, and that’s about it. i like the clean geometric look.

(the photo is here, and is a photo i took while waiting at Hong Kong airport)

3 comments August 15th, 2007

worth every penny…

i’m such a sucker for these things….. and i always get them from geoff or jesse

too bad i can’t cash in. i need to remodel our kitchen.

Add comment March 13th, 2007

My 5 Things.

I was wondering when it would be my turn… looks like I’ve been tagged by Forrest. For those unable to see the connection, Forrest is one of the engineers in the Solaris Kernel test group in Beijing whom I worked with (on Hierarchical Locality Groups test support) when I did my six week rotation in Beijing.

So… 5 things you may not know about me: (I say may, because I’ve certainly done my fair share of exposing embarrassing secrets about myself when drunk - so who knows if you know or don’t know this already).

1. I don’t play video games. Seriously. People generally know me as a computer geek (true), and believe I spend most of my day on the computer (true, on weekdays) - and make the assumption that (like a lot of geeks), I must play video games. I can’t think how many conversations have been abruptly pre-empted by me interrupting with “actually I’ve never played World of Warcraft.” My self-imposed computer game ban dates back to sophomore year of college, when a huge addiction to Rainbow Six caused many a missed class, and a caused me to lose a lot of focus at school. That was the catalyst for finally wiping the last vestiges of Windows off my computer and declaring myself free of computer games. We kept a Dreamcast around for short non-continuous (read: no storyline) games for a while, but… well… every good thing comes to an end. Though I do have to admit, I do indulge in cell phone solitaire.

2. I dislocate my toe about once a week. Weird, I know. I’ve had this problem for as long as I can remember. I don’t know why… it just happens. And yes, it hurts like a mofo every time.

3. I was expelled from my first high school… and that was probably one of the best things that could have happened to me, seriously.

4. I sometimes wish I were Canadian. I don’t know why. I’m fiercely proud to be English… but yet I’m culturally very much American. Canada just seems to be a logical midpoint between the two. I go to Canada at least once a year to see family, and I love it there. I always have a great time. I think I could be a really good patriotic Canadian. Except for the football team… seriously, you Canucks need someone other than DeRosario to carry you. You lost out with Hargreaves (coincidentally, just named best English player of 2006!)

5. I’m allergic to alcohol. Tragic I know… Especially given how much I’m fond of the stuff. It’s not just the usual Asian blush either… my asthma kicks in and I get very short of breath. Does it stop me from drinking? Not really. But along with my lactose intolerance, it makes wine and cheese hour (and those of you who know me know I LOVE & CRAVE cheese) both thoroughly enjoyable and miserable.

2 comments February 1st, 2007

out yourself!

snagged from geoff’s blog, apparently this is National Delurking Week

don’t be a terrorist. leave a comment and say “hello”, “hallo”, “hullo”, or even a “ni hao”.

6 comments January 10th, 2007

lesbians

this is only tangentially related to lesbians. i just thought it was funny that the first (most recent) link to my blog that technorati returns is “Lesbian group sex”:

Technorati Search for: whacked.net

(i made enhancements to a WordPress theme and contributed them back to the original author who linked me to give me credit, so now anyone using that theme will have a link back to my site)

2 comments February 13th, 2006

another blog upgrade

just upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.01 this morning. can i just say i love the wordpress upgrade process? it consists of untarring the tarball, and then clicking one upgrade link in the blog admin pages. i wish all software upgrades were this easy.

Add comment February 1st, 2006

neat photo zoom effect

i added a kind of neat photo zoom effect for the recent photos block in my sidebar. okay, i think i’m done mucking around with my blog for the weekend now…. and now back to your regularly scheduled OpenSolaris (aka: real) work.

Add comment January 23rd, 2006

new blog look/theme

i installed a new theme (WPAndreas07), and heavily modified it. i wasn’t happy with how cluttered my previous sidebar was getting, and i like the minimal/clean feel of WPAndreas07. however, it didn’t have the blogroll/categories/archives/etc. that i liked, so i hacked it up to have “foldable” (maybe collapsible is the better term) menus for those. i also wrote a quick “recent photos” bit of php that gives a compact view of my recent additions in my photo gallery which i quite like.

one thing i still need to do is make my own header graphic as the default (that pink flower) doesn’t really fit in with the colour scheme i decided upon.

okay, i made my new graphic. i’m still not sure about it… let me know what you think.

5 comments January 22nd, 2006

blog upgrade

i upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.0

so far so good. that was a very painless upgrade.

2 comments January 18th, 2006

comment subscription

i’ve found the comment subscription on b.s.c to be a nice feature and just added a wordpress plugin to do the same.

let me know if it works or doesn’t work for you so i have some idea.

Add comment January 17th, 2006