Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis – Really funny book about New York private detective Michael McGill’s hunt for the secret Constitution of the United States (a book bound in alien skin) through America’s perverted underbelly.
Here is a selection of ten podcasts that I like to listen to or watch during the week. I do not personally use Apple’s iTunes for downloading podcasts since it is such a hassle to use; instead I opt for subscribing to the podcasts’ RSS feeds. I have found the two best producers of podcasts to be Revision3 (video podcasts) and Leo Laporte’s TWiT (audio podcasts).
I had been waiting for a while for WordPress 2.5 to be released so that I could finally start blogging. I figured that I might as well wait for the long-awaited new version of the content management system before I started coding, in case it was a major upgrade so that I would not have to rewrite any code. WordPress 2.5 was released on March 29th, and ever since I have been (slowly) working on my blog. My previous website was all hand-coded and did not use any content management system which made it hard to update. The advantages of using a blogging system like WordPress is that it makes it really easy to add new posts, change the design with templates, add tagging, search posts, and let readers post comments.
The blog is still pretty basic. I will refine the design and add extra functions the following weeks. What I will be looking into is sIFR for the headlines, something like Lightbox for bigger images, cleaning up the forms, and adding some content to the sidebar. I am also interested in learning jQuery for all my JavaScript needs. So please stick with me, and I will try to find interesting topics to write about.
