New WordPress!

Yes, folks, that’s right, a new version of WordPress was just released earlier today! I being a good webscript follower, decided to upgrade to the newest release to ensure that I don’t get hacked or whatnot (though, I’m sure after that, every goddamn hacker just set their sights on hacking my site). You can get it from the usual places if you do your own blogging.

I did not, however, upgrade to WP 2.8 (the version just released). “Galador, have you gone crazy?” you may be asking, “You just said that you updated your install!” How very observant of you, dear reader! I did in fact update my WordPress, but not to some skanky stable version, heavens no! Instead, I decided to be adventurous and follow the SVN trunk (for you non-techies, the development version, straight from WordPress to me).

And of course, being the dev version, it FUCKED SHIT UP. If you see the layout between now and probably sometime tomorrow when I fix shit, this is not how I want my blog to look, goddammit. If I wanted to change how my blog looks, I’d change the fucking theme! Why do I suddenly have a list of categories and archives on the right side? I don’t want that. Where is my blogroll? And what happened to my meta links. (It’s a good thing I have a separate login button in my theme’s header, else I might [*gasp*] have to type out the admin URL manually! *shudders*)

To be fair, of course, the WordPress doodz do give you a bit of warning that that SVN trunk is probably going to be bork. Ah, the grief of running on the bleeding edge!

UPDATE: It appears I owe a bit of an apology to the WP devs for this post. Seems the only thing that went “wrong” with the update was that somewhere between WP v2.7 and v2.9-rare (I’ll interject here that the WordPress dev versions have hilarious version names), they switched to a much simpler sidebar configuration where you drag and drop (or, if this happened during or prior to 2.7, I guess I never changed the default) “widgets”. Since I didn’t have a widget configuration, it just assumed some defaults. So there you have it, folks! Give these fine people a round of applause for actually making shit easier! *claps*

Testing LaTeX

Liek whoa! Two posts in one day!

\LaTeX, in case you didn’t know, is a very sweet markup language for making professional-looking documents and is used pretty heavily in the Maths and Sciences, because it has wicked formula support. If you’ve seen math formulas on Wikipedia, then those were created with LaTeX. I’ve recently discovered that there’s a pretty sweet WordPress plugin, Easy LaTeX that allows you to embed formulas on your blag.

Though, I probably won’t use it very often (read: possibly never again after this post), I thought that I’d at least show it off once. I might even update my infamous “Derivatives Made Easy” (the #1 result on google for that phrase… I still get a lot of hits to it) post with nice-looking formulas instead of the paint-drawn ones I have now.

So, here’s some of the neat-looking stuff you can make with LaTeX:

\Re{z} =\frac{n\pi \dfrac{\theta +\psi}{2}}{ \left(\dfrac{\theta +\psi}{2}\right)^2 + \left( \dfrac{1}{2} \log \left\lvert\dfrac{B}{A}\right\rvert\right)^2}.

lolspam

Sometimes, spam comments make me giggle. Here’s a sampling of some of the latest jewels of Engrish that my blog’s attracted:

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— dyecida, from Russia

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Thanks for the feedback, guys!

Now I’ve Seen Everything

If you thought that just watching Martha Stewart was bad enough, how about a show whose sole purpose is to make fun of said Homemaker extraordinaire?

That’s exactly what I saw two nights ago, in the form of “Whatever, Martha!” on the Fine Living channel (What? It came on after Iron Chef Japan [which, with its American counterpart, may be one of the best shows on television]. You can’t blame me).

Here’s a taste of what I saw that fateful night:

Summertime

Aye, it’s that time again (actually, for me, has been for nigh on two weeks), which indubitably means that it’s movie-watching season.

The trend has begun again, and the movie this time was the new Star Trek movie, which I saw on Saturday. I’m not a Star Trek fan (nor am I a Star Trek hater), yet I was still easily impressed with this movie. J.J. Abrams of Lost and Cloverfield fame did quite well, in my humble opinion. I would say more, but I’ve slept since then. :P Disappointing, I know. :(

In other news, I may have a pretty cool job this summer, but I’m not sure on the details, yet, so I’m not pushing my luck by saying I have a job lined up or something like that. We’ll see. *hopes*

OMG Hawt

Check it out bitches. New theme! Just need to fix some of the little things, and it’ll be sweet! But unfortunately, it’s 2AM, and I’m tired. In the morning (or afternoon <_<) the work shall be done! I'm trying to pick up some PHP skillz, too, lately, so we'll see how that goes. As for the what I've been doing, I've been on Spring Break for the last week (didn't go anywhere :[ ), but I have watched a new movie every day so far. I also started work on an MyDB Movie List. Got all the ones I could think of off the top of my head. I’m sure I’ll get more.

I realize I haven’t been making as many posts recently, due to being busy with school and all, but I have an idea for some (possibly weekly) posts to keep the masses sated. Maybe more details on that in the future. I might also have another guest entry coming up soonish, so be on the lookout for that.

The Woz a Dancer?

We all know him as the co-founder of Apple computers, but will we sson know him as a Dancing Star? Sure will, according to the Dancing with the Stars website.

Rumors have been floating around the Interbutts for a while now that the Woz will be making an appearance, bu it seems that ABC finally revealed it for real.

Steve Wozniak
PROFESSION:
Apple co-founder, philanthropist

BACKGROUND:
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, a.k.a. “The Woz,” helped shape the computer industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products, the Apple I and II, and influenced the popular Macintosh. After leaving Apple Computer Inc. in 1985, Wozniak was involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students. In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment. Wozniak is also a published author with the release of his New York Times Best Selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in September 2006.