My blog is finally migrated from self-hosted WordPress to Pelican on GitHub Pages. Quite an ordeal.

Solutions to some of the many problems converting a WordPress blog to a Pelican blog with Disqus for commenting.

My adventures converting my WordPress blog to Pelican, the problems I encountered, and how I solved them.

Right now, this blog, my email, and a whole bunch of other services are hosted on a Linode Xen VM. I don’t really keep up to date with administration and upgrades the way I used to, and honestly, I’d rather spend my time working on other things (like …

In an earlier post, Piwik Web Analytics, and some unfortunate stats about my blog, I mentioned that the Feedburner stats for this blog show a relatively high subscribe/unsubscribe rate for this blog. I think a large part of that is my tendency to blog in spurts, and even worse …

In a follow-up to my Some Thoughts on Choosing a New Wordpress Theme post from a few days ago, I decided on the Admired theme by Brad Thomas. It’s amazingly full-featured and has a good set of options. I had to manually change a few things in the CSS …

I think I’m going to choose a new theme for my blog. The current theme is iNove (albeit an older version with some custom modifications), and I feel like it looks a bit messy and has gotten a bit cluttered, so it’s time to find something new. I …

As you may know from former posts, this blog (WordPress-powered) and a few MediaWiki sites that I have use the excellent PHP-based GeSHi syntax highlighter. Today I was writing a post that includes some Icinga (Nagios) configuration snippets. After a quick search, I found a Nagios language file …

The Wp-Syntax plugin for WordPress provides syntax highlighting for WordPress blogs via the GeSHi PHP syntax highlighter. Unfortunately, the plugin includes a builtin version of GeSHi (currently 1.0.8.9) in geshi/. As a result, not only are users of the plugin not instructed to use the latest version …

This blog is run on wordpress, and I also do quite a bit in PHP, so I’m familiar with the GeSHi syntax highlighter. It’s PHP-based, and can run both as a Wordpress plugin (WP-Syntax) and as a PHP module. It also works quite well with the …