MostlyGeek

I just updated the blog again, changing the theme to FreshPress. While the old theme was cool, XHTML compliant and really easy to tweak because of it’s BlueprintCSS based layout, it was kind of ugly. The trade off of using FreshPress is not having Blueprint. 

I didn’t realize how nice it is to work with BlueprintCSS [...]

Ever since I got my Macbook Pro I’ve experienced the slow wake up issue. It is by far the most annoying persistent problem with the MBP. Here’s the solution: 

Install SmartSleep. This adds a new pane to your System preferences that allows you to tweak the underlying system settings. 
Set the current sleep state to “smart sleep”, [...]

reCAPTCHA is one of those amazing ideas that makes you say, “gee, why didn’t somebody think of that sooner?”. It accomplishes two objectives in one very clever way. 

Provides a captcha to verify a real person is posting content
Digitizes books one word at a time by leveraging people power

Adding reCAPTCHA to Wordpress is very easy:

Sign up [...]

I updated MostlyGeek with the Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King. Previously the site used Twitter’s JavaScript badge to display my latest tweets. There are a number of advantages to using Twitter Tools over the simple badge: 

Automatically tweet a new blog entry
Automatic downloading of my latest tweets
Automatically blog tweets

Also while adding the plug in I noticed [...]

Following quickly from Revision 1 of the new MostlyGeek I started personalizing the free theme I found on the net. Today I: 

Added Twitter to the front page
Created a custom sidebar for the front page
Reorganized the Pages a bit. 

In the footer.php file add Twitter’s javascript. After the page is finished loading the Twitter updates will be [...]