Helvensteijn.com

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 … Read more

So, what have I been up to lately? Well, there’s a thing called real life that’s been keeping me busy. Obligations here, weekend trip there, you know how it goes… Then there’s the MetaD IRC network that I’ve set up with some other people. And I’ve been busy (well, sort of) with a new sort … Read more

I’ve added a feature to this site for those with reduced visual acuity. One can now make the text on this site larger if so desired. In the upper right corner, there are two A‘s in a small box. Clicking on the larger one makes the text on this site larger. Clicking on the smaller … Read more

Since the launch of this web site, I used a theme based on WP-Andreas01. Back then, I said that I probably wouldn’t be designing anymore themes myself, mostly because of MSIE. But you know how these things go, it started tinkling again. So I came up with the idea to base a layout on the … Read more

Now that I have a new hosting provider which offers a lot of disk space, I could finally do what I wanted to do for a long time: make an online photo gallery. I’ve got 9 albums online now, but that number will undoubtedly grow in the future. The whole thing is powred by the … Read more

As of today, this web site runs at a new hosting provider: Host Delight, a company of Dolf Schimmel, who is a friend of mine. Only one problem occured with the transition: all the links on the Links page are gone. Somehow they didn’t survive the WordPress export/import process. I’ll try to recover those from … Read more

Well, it’s finally happened. I’m back from vacation for a few days (going back tomorrow ), and I’ve discovered that comment spammers have found my web site. Took them long enough though. So I’ve decided to turn on user registration for comments. I’ll see how long it takes for the spammers to figure that out. … Read more

I’ve added the possibility to this site to post comments using your OpenID URI — not that a lot of people leave comments here, but I like OpenID, and so I like others to be able to use it, too. So if you want to comment using your OpenID URI, just enter it in the … Read more

Now that I have ample time available, I’ve looked at some issues that I still had with this web site. First of all, the page navigation on the left was somewhat buggy. When one was somewhere inside the blog, the “Blog” item in the menu would not be highlighted. That’s been fixed. Secondly, the page … Read more

Today, I launched my new site, which is (again) powered by WordPress. I used this theme as a basis, and tweaked it to my needs. Reason for using WordPress is that I pretty much lost interest in building my own CMS, at least for the time being. My interests have moved to other things. Reason … Read more