I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

Remember webrings? They were those collections of websites usually loosely themed, mostly made up of personal web pages. They were immensely popular in the late 90s and early 2000s. Everyone and their mother belonged to one, way back when the blogosphere was still in its infancy. Back when blogrolls were still just an idea that […]

As of 3pm today, Jim and I are no longer Helio members. (yes, I know they are now Virgin Mobile, but apparently accounts are still separated in their system and for all intents and purposes, it’s still “Helio”) Wow, I can’t believe that two years have already passed! My Ocean has been a really good […]

I was contacted a while back by Barbara Weibel, a very nice lady with a question about a WordPress theme modification. She wanted to know the best way to add a set of rotating images into the header — not like the rotating images php scripts that have been making the rounds for the last […]

I am by no means an expert on site promotion, but I am asked this question pretty often: “I have a blog. Now what do I do?” The basics of blog promotion aren’t difficult concepts, but the process requires time, attention to detail, and focus. Most of the things I’ll cover here are pretty common […]

There have been rumors about the pairing circling around the internet for the past couple of months. Heliocity had even commented on this, but the two companies had stayed mum denying the rumors — until last Friday. I received an email from Helio announcing the upcoming merger. Heliocity covered the announcement. Virgin Mobile is acquiring […]

Just an FYI for anyone using this plugin… I have moved my Blank Target Replacement plugin to WordPress.org for better version tracking and visibility — and not to mention auto-updates for those using it. (not that I don’t want my users to come back to my site often, but even *I* have to admit that […]