This is my oldest blog, and the one linked to my WordPress account, so whenever I comment using that account, my handle links here. It is no longer my most active blog, that is meanwhile Vivat Crescat Floreat, which is not about computers but about art and poetry.
Featured images in WordPress
The “featured image” that you can set in a WordPress post is a purely internal thing. Some themes use it, some don’t, and how they use it depends on the theme. Adventure Journal for example, the theme I’m now using on this blog, uses a featured image of the correct size as a custom header for the post. So far, I’ve made use of this here and here.
But if, for example, your posts are published automatically on Facebook, the featured image will not necessarily be chosen as thumbnail. So, if your theme isn’t using it, it’s pointless to set one at all, and it’s better not to. If you ever change your theme to one that does, you might not like the way it uses the featured image at all.
The Dancing Hippos in Pharaoh
The incredible dancing hippos
This is a fun little cheat, or easter egg. Type “Side Show” into the cheat console (launched with [Ctrl]+[Alt]+C), and any hippos on the map will suddenly have tutus and dance.
A short history of microblogging
Like most relevant things, microblogging was not thought out, it was just done. It is really the invention of Christian Neukirchen, who likes math, Unix, minimalism and the Internet. In March 2005 he started an experimental blog, Anarchaia:
Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’ (think obstsalat)
The first link, or at least the bottom link of the first day, was transparent screens on flickr. A Ruby programmer who used the handle why the lucky stiff coined the word “tumblelog” when he sort of reviewed Anarchaia on his meanwhile defunct blog RedHanded.
Twitter was founded in March 2006. Tumblr in April 2007.
Comparing WordPress and Tumblr
I have been using WordPress for more than a year now, for three different blogs: This one, No Fanbois Allowed, and Vivat Crescat Floreat. Two days ago I registered a Tumblr account as well. It is a sort of sideshow to Vivat Crescat Floreat, uses the same theme, and I post the same stuff there, just faster and less thorough. The two platforms are technically different, but have a lot in common as well, so I thought it interesting to compare them.
Recent games I couldn’t help noticing
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom was probably the last game I really followed, reading up the news, playing the demo as soon as it came out. Around 2005, my interest in games decreased, especially new ones. I still played games, but mostly older ones.
This may have changed my surfing habits as well, but I still read webcomics, and if people talked about a game on the web, I would notice. So now I wondered which were the games that I couldn’t help noticing since 2005.
Categories: Computer game history, Personal
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Anarcho-capitalist wallpapers
Want some anarcho-capitalist wallpapers? Here they are!
Categories: Graphics
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‘And Then There Were None’ by Eric Frank Russell
Came across this story again that I read a long time ago: And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell. Highly recommended if you like “alternate society” science fiction.
