Category Archives: Blogging

WordPress 1.5

I just upgraded to WordPress 1.5. One of the most outstanding upgrades, IMO, is the new theme manager. With the click of a button I can switch between themes. The default theme is now Kubrick…the theme that I’m using can be found at the bottom of the page. I still have some tweaking to do (such has making the javascript menu on the left work correctly), but all-in-all I really like the look of this theme. It does seem a little washed out to me so I might enlarge the fonts a little bit and bolden the colors…

Back to biomolecular chemistry studying. 😉

New Blog!

I’ve successfully switched over from Blogger (which I still use for my photo blog through flickr) to WordPress. I initially had some trouble getting the permalinks to work right but I think it’s all good now. As soon as I get some more time I’ll update the template to something a bit more flashy. But now, back to bacteriology studying.

New website! www.illiteratewithdrawal.com

I was helping my brother find a site for his cartoons (he found www.spoonattack.com for which he is going to create an awesome flash intro) when I came across this randomly generated site: www.illiteratewithdrawal.com. So, this is going to be my new website address.

What does it mean? Here’s the etymology:

illiterate: Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature; Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge

withdrawal: The act or process of withdrawing as in a retreat or retirement

So make up your own mind. To me it means an intellectual withdrawal from the constraints of the unintelligent (whatever that means).

New Template

As you can see, I’ve drastically updated the template for the layout of this site. I used a template generator from this site http://www.erisfree.com/d2/apart.php. You can create templates for not only Blogger, but also many other blogging programs. There is also the ability to skin this site with 3 different styles. Click the link and the site will automatically change to that style. I had saved my pervious template just in case something would happen, but I like this new layout so much better than I’m going to fully switch over to it. What do you think of the new design?

I’m back!

Hey! Long time no see. I’ve been really busy with school stuff, but also just really, really lazy. It really doesn’t take that long to update a blog.

Anyway, here’s a cool site that I found: MusicPlasma. You can search for your favorite musical artist and then it returns a flash page with the artists albums on the left and how that artist is associated with other artists on the right. The end result is that a web linking tons of artists appears. The closer they are together, the more they are related. Also, the larger the “bubble,” the more popular that artist is. As an example, below you can see my results from searching for The Beatles.