I’ve been having a close look at WordPress lately. I’ve grown pretty tired of all the constant rebuilding every time you change a slight detail in MovableType — WordPress, on the other hand, is fetched from the database on demand and displayed dynamically.

I’ve set up a test installation of WordPress and I’m satisfied with it. [...]

Now this has to be the most amusing spam I’ve ever recieved. Everything in it sounded so familiar, until I realized that it’s all random lines from Fight Club!

So this guy made a bet: he would eat nothing but baked beans for a month if Ashton Kutcher’s recent movie The Butterfly Effect made more than $40 million in its first 4 weeks.

I hope he enjoys his beans.

My female friends are disgusted, my male friends think it’s awesome and are rooting for me to [...]

I had a look at my Apache access logs and found a whole bunch of lines like these:

216.133.xxx.xxx - - [06/Mar/2004:18:36:02 +0100] “\x870″ 501 -
220.130.xxx.xxx - - [06/Mar/2004:20:58:33 +0100] “Y\x14\xdc\xa4N\x90T\xe22rRY5Q” 501 -
67.68.xxx.xxx - - [07/Mar/2004:01:04:54 0100] “e\xc6\xed.\xfeE\xa8\xcc\x0f\xe3\xbeu\xe3″ 501 -

Tons and tons of them. They clearly have a common pattern — groups of three letters/numbers separated [...]

So it’s that time of year again — the annual book sale at the end of February, when everybody and their grandmother and their grandmother’s dog and their dog’s grandmother stampede through all the bookstores hunting for cheap books.

Here’s my catch:

XML Programming
XML, DTDs and XSL Transformations
Linus Torvalds, Just For Fun
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
Per Nilsson, A Style [...]

Due to the lack of actual tail in the picture, I feel obliged to note that the post title is actually a song by Accessory.

This entry is mostly a test of Clagnut’s very nice CSS drop shadow.

Can’t quite get it to work. I’m guessing something else in my style sheet is colliding with the drop [...]

I finally did what I’ve been thinking about doing for a long long time: start with a martial art. So tonight I tagged along with Breki and started training wing chun.

It’s quite fun, and I got into it faster than I expected — the bong sao was easy to learn (though getting good at using [...]