It's official

Qian and I just signed the lease on a new flat. It’s a bit further into noe valley, about 2 blocks from 24th and Castro. It’s a ground level 1 Bedroom (in a building built in 1884!) with a big kitchen, an extra room that we’ll probably use as some kind of living room, a […]

House hunting sucks

For the last 3 months or so, I’ve pretty much looked at craigslist everyday to find out about new apartments in the Mission/Noe Valley area. I guess our requirements are pretty specific, so there aren’t too many matches — maybe 1 place per week that looks interesting. Regardless, for every single one that is a […]

Textpattern again

I had pretty much given up on txp, but then I saw this site. Not extremely interesting content-wise, but I do like the layout. I can imagine having a two column page where one column has all my short posts like this one, and another column has all my long rants.

Sticking with WordPress for now

I’ve spent the last few days messing around with textpattern. While it’s true that I can get it to do things that I don’t know how to do in WP (like getting comments to show in the index page), WP still feels more complete and polished. To be specific, there are a few WP features […]

Textpattern

After looking at a lot of web app frameworks, Johnvey put it most succinctly: “none of them are complete. You’re better off with an off the shelf solution”. He also pointed me to textpattern, which I’ve set up here. So far, I’ve been quite productive with it. It’s templating system is a bit odd (or […]

Essays

Ramesh pointed me to a great collection of essays written by Paul Graham regarding all kinds of topics. Most interesting to me are technology and start up-related.

New blog system design

I’m kinda getting tired of WordPress, and so now I’m thinking (again) about creating my own blog system. Of course I should go around looking at what’s out there instead of rolling my own, but I want to write some kind of web-app anyways, so I might as well think about how I would build […]

WordPress Upgrade

Poking around Dreamhost’s web configuraiton panel, I saw there was a one-click option to upgrade my wordpress install. So I tried it. And 5 minutes later, now I’m using WordPress 2.0.2. Well that went extremely smoothly. The only downside is I lost my theme customizations, but those will return very soon, I promise.