Blayne Sucks

As you may have noticed, I have updated the Wordpress theme used on this site.  I have also made a few changes under the hood.  For example, I have enabled user registration and comments.  Users can register using OpenID.  If you haven’t heard of OpenID, it’s basically a way for you to log in to this site without a password.

This means that you can log into BlayneSucks and comment on posts using any of the following popular blogging credentials:

• AOL — openid.aol.com/screenname
• Blogger — blogname.blogspot.com
• Flickr — www.flickr.com/photos/username
• LiveJournal — username.livejournal.com
• Technorati — technorati.com/people/technorati/username
• Yahoo — http://openid.yahoo.com
• WordPress.com — username.wordpress.com

All you have to do is put the URL listed into the OpenID box on the BlayneSucks log in page.  Furthermore, I have enabled Gravatars for users.  A Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar.  Basically, it’s a picture that follows your comments around from blog to blog.  You can sign up at http://en.gravatar.com/.

I hope you enjoy the new site look and feel as well as the ability to comment!

I’ve created a links page that contains a set of potentially interesting links. Mostly it’s a collection of my profiles on several sites that I use from time to time. Hopefully, it will be a good way to find me in other places on the internet.

Now, I have seen a lot of similar pages on other sites that contain long lists of links to things that I’ve almost always seen before. Thus, I have specifically tried to avoid two things with this: Stating the obvious and Verbosity. I will try to maintain this set of links over time given those objectives.

As you may have noticed, I have added a picture gallery to this site. It is very easy to use and I hope that it will help me to add relevant pictures to my posts where they are helpful.

For those interested in the technical details, I added Gallery2 and the WPG2 plugin to Wordpress. I have made a few changes to the style when viewing pictures, but it’s not quite as perfect as I would like, but it’s definitely usable.

I’ve decided once again to resurrect and redesign this site. In particular, the entirety of the site will be managed via WordPress now. I’m sure that for the next few days things will be a bit in flux here. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes, but I am certain these changes are for the best in the long term.

There are several older posts here. Despite the unwritten rule of bloggers to not modify posts after they have been posted, I may have to make some changes that involve these older posts. It’s likely that I will change some of the categories under which they were originally posted. Any changes I make to posts would consist of some minor cosmetic editing, but the actual text of the posts will remain the same.

I’ll try and post again when I am happy with the changes and I am willing to pronounce things as “stable” once again. In the meantime, hang in there and trust that things are going to be much better in the (hopefully near) future.