Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov … mammoth cave …

Here we go, some more modifications on this blog:

1.  It seems that I have finally found a nice theme: Lorem Ipsum v1.2.7 by Brajeshwar which I have modified here and there to match me (including the addition of the top widget where I have placed a flickr badge, adjusting the CSS and some more).
2. I have started writting an About Me page which I hope will become somehow more consistent and full in a time. I am also planning for some additional pages later on (hopefully).
3. As I have mentioned in point 1, I have created a widget for displaying the badge from my flickr page.
4. The links (including blogroll and others) were recategorized. I have also added/removed some and I am planning to create a full blogroll page later on where I will place the whole bunch of links I am reading and watching on a daily basis.

I think that more changes will be comming from time to time. Meanwhile, if you see any bugs/mistypes/misbihaviours, please fill free to let me know so I can review and correct em all.

It is few days now I am using new WP 2.2 and I feel like I like it :) Though I didn\’t yet managed to find a solution to my SpamKarma 2 problem, it still like it. For fighting spam bots, I have installed Bad Behavior plugin to cut off some crap, but I still have to go through the comments moderation process on a daily basis.

On the other hand, I start using widgets now and I like them a lot. I think in some time there will be a lot of widgets available from WP related sites (as currently there are a log of plugins).

I have also changed the theme since I am not in the mood of adjusting my old one, nor I am going to design something new. If anyone wants to try and make me a theme (with widget support) – I will be more than happy.

It\’s been long time since I had a 15 hours sleep. After a short sailing (photos here), a nice portion of meat with beer and some movie, I went to sleep at 6 pm and woke up only at 9 am today. I should do it more often.

I have upgrade WP to 2.2. Looks nice. Widgets are all cool as well. There is only one problem for me now – SpamKarma 2. When I am trying to activate it, something is going wrong with the headers and I get offered to download plugins.php file instead of the plugin to start working. Due to this problem, I had to put manual comments moderation until I find a solution, so if you can not see your comment after you posted, then it is in a moderation Q.

Downloaded Fedora 7 (full DVD and Live CD KDE-based images) and installed the full one. Looks great, works fast. From what I have noticed immidiately – my WiFi seems to work out of the box, yum works much faster. The rest is pretty much the same, apart of new art-work everywhere and less stuff to update (fresh software everywhere).