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He has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish
where He will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry
for ever and ever ’till the end of time… but He loves you!

George Carlin — You Are All Diseased

Welcome to the home page of Colin Helvensteijn, aka raptor.

So what can you find here on this web site? Well, the menu above points you to most of it. There’s some stuff I want to have online for some reason. And then there’s also a few WordPress plugins that I wrote, but no longer support. They are still available for download though. Use at own risk!

Recent blog posts

These are the three most recent posts from my blog.

Redesign

Yes, it’s finally finished (I think), so a few minutes ago, I took my new theme online, the third one in about 16 months. I call it TWAIN, or Theme Without An Interesting Name in full. If you own a scanner, you’ll probably know where I got my inspiration for that.
So, besides the [...]

Clean WordPress installation

Last Monday, WordPress 2.6 was released. Because I grew more and more unhappy with my WordPress installation hanging together by plugins and hacks, I saw this release as a good moment to do a completely clean install.
I made a database dump and a WordPress export, dropped all tables in the database and removed all files [...]

A little rant on anti-smoke fanatics

Alright, as of today, The Netherlands is the next country where it is no longer allowed to smoke in hotels, bars, restaurants and other places like that. Fine, so we won’t smoke there anymore.
But leave it to these anti-smoke dickheads to find their next thing to wage war on. Now, they want us smokers to [...]