Site.Way back at the end of 2004 I wrote a yearly wrap-up that I’d meant to repeat the following year, but things being what they are, I failed at that task. So, in the spirit of pushing real content to next week, here is an interesting/excruciating look back at Second Negative in 2006.
In no [...]
In case you’re wondering, the background hasn’t failed to load, the site could not BE more white. And a little #993333. To be sure, this is the whitest it has ever been. You may notice I’m calling it Blanco in the stylesheet, which is only a tiny bit more descriptive than the [...]
At long last, it’s ALIVE. The Fall 2006 redesign. Beta (wink).
I had intended to take the site down for a few days while serving up that wonderfully descriptive 403 page, but a few days turned into a few weeks. If you’re one of the people who checked in every day hoping I [...]
I’ve switched my personal photo albums over to an all new SQL/PHP solution with a backend managed by ZenPhoto. So far, I’ve been very pleased with the features and extensibility of the new code. And I’ve finally been able to enable comments on individual photos. That’s not to say that anyone will actually [...]
You may have noticed last week that this site went dark for a few days. Or, considering my posting frequency, you may not have noticed anything different at all.
About a week ago, I got an email from my web host (Lunarpages) letting me know that the contact script I was using for my contact [...]
Although I don’t like to add too many bells and whistles to this site, I enjoy keeping up with the development of plugins and add-ons for Wordpress. The ability to add custom functionality to the applications I use is invaluable.
If you’ve been coming around for a while, you may have noticed that at one [...]
Well, the very last post from the place where it all began. After three (pretty good) years living at the same address, all that remains is this computer, and one exhausted girlfriend lying on the floor. In a few minutes I’ll turn this machine off, yank a few cords, and load it up [...]
If you visit the ol’ Second Negative on a regular basis, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been experimenting with the design a little bit. The “new” design is really just a few small changes to the old design. But you knew that. Thanks to Wordpress 1.5, I can create alternative themes and easily [...]
In order to take advantage of the new features released this week as part of WordPress v1.5, I’m going to be spending the next few hours upgrading this site. (Editors Note: This does not include the hours that I’m watching Smallville, Jack & Bobby, Lost, and Alias. Damn you Wednesday night!)
Because the upgrade [...]
I’ve always appreciated memorable taglines. The “best tagline” award at the Bloggies is usually one of the more interesting categories. Sites that find a way to incorporate phrases like “saucy wench” deserve special recognition. You may have noticed that the tagline for this site is “disinformation, spread liberally”. Before I added [...]
As 2004 comes to a close in a few hours (and I sweat out the rest of my bowl picks) I thought I would share a few thoughts in reflection on the year past.
Like most years, I accomplished less than I had hoped, but am often reminded that all things come in time. As [...]
During the recent re-launch of Second Negative, I moved from tracking site stats through Extreme Tracking to installing Shaun Inman’s excellent ShortStat on my own server.
The traffic has been good these past few days, largely due to a link posted in the WP forums by Root. An interesting detail about the “new” stats is [...]
The wizard behind the curtain spent some time last night and today changing a few structural elements and tweaking other areas of the site. It’s certainly not anything major or groundbreaking, but it’s probably noticeable if you’ve been here before.
As changes are made to the structure and content, the software used to administer this [...]
I maintain an abbreviated version of the feeds that I subscribe to in the right hand column under “Recommended”. My actual blogroll is much longer and probably overstuffed by half, but the site version is a short list of my favorites.
Over the months since I created the initial listing, I’ve developed an interest in [...]