mekosh.org

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with this web site, but hopefully I can finally break the trend. My plan for this version is to update when I have something interesting to say. It won’t be a blog that is constantly updated like InstaPundit, nor will it be a diary of boring details. […]

I added a list of my favorite movies to the Links page. It’s far from complete and I’ll be adding more films to it when I think of them. All titles link to pages in the Internet Movie Database.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but it’s not my fault. I’ve been so overwhelmed with work on a big web project that I really didn’t have the time to do anything fun. Well, I took a little break today and added a way for visitors to post comments on any blog entry. […]

I didn’t have much to do at work today because one of my projects is on hold for right now. I was able to work on some web design for this site, but I didn’t quite finish. That would explain why the site looked terrible for much of the afternoon. I’m sure that upset the […]

I added some information about myself to the About section. I’m not quite finished with it, but depending on how tomorrow goes, I may add a little bit more in the form of quick bits of information. I was also thinking about widening the column for the main text and adding a column for recent […]

I finally figured out exactly how to list the number of comments for each entry next to the permalink. I added that to the code for the main page of this site, as well as for each entry in the Archives. I also added a sidebar to the home page which I will use to […]

I completed a major site update today, but many people would not notice if I didn’t say anything about it. Besides adjusting the width of certain columns and modifying the header size slightly, I also scrapped the previous design’s table layout in favor of an XHTML-styled div and CSS layout. Certain aspects, such as the […]

In celebration of All Hollows’ Eve, I’ve switched to the first special template for this site. I’ll keep it up for at least a few days after Halloween though. The surprising thing is that it only took me an hour to create the new Halloween template by modifying the graphics and stylesheet for the normal […]

A few months ago, I decided that I was going to develop a weblog system and offer it as a free download like Movable Type. Unlike MT, the system I was going to create would be simpler, completely dynamic, and powered by PHP and MySQL. I’m not a big fan of Perl and I don’t […]

Today is a big day for Stephen’s Stuff! I’ve been working on a new version of the site for quite a while now. I’ve been busy so it had to be done in little steps, but I have the new design ready now and the PHP/MySQL backend is just about completed. Now, before you say, […]

It’s been one bumpy semester for me. After a relatively smooth and relaxed Fall 2003 semester, this semester was quite a shock. I don’t recall being this busy ever, and I know that my life has never been as hectic as it was these past eight weeks. Somewhere between Barefoot in the Park, the two […]

I just want to state that this will mark a new direction for this site. I attempted to record every aspect of my day, week, or month in past efforts. The end result was that my weblog was a mixture of three-week recaps and short essays. It didn’t have any real personality or cohesion. I […]

I finally finished importing all the links from my older sites into del.icio.us. I left out some links that are dead and replaced a few “no longer available” news stories with similar articles from better publications. Right now I’m crudely importing the links, but I’m going to try to see if I can cache them […]

I started doing a major update for this site yesterday, but it won’t be complete for a few days. It’s likely that few noticed it, but I moved mekosh.org from JiffyNet’s servers to DreamHost. That came about after they changed a server configuration and it broke my code again. It seems that every month I […]

Not surprisingly, adding new content to this site is pretty low on my list of priorities. It’s fun, but it takes a backseat to things I need to do. However, in between all of my obligations, I managed to come up with a few little things to add.
The first thing, a photos section, is something […]

I’m making gradual updates to this site because I probably won’t have the time to devote to major changes for a few weeks. I changed the way RSS/Atom feeds are handled by using Steve Smith’s FeedBurner Plugin along with my new FeedBurner account. It’s a sweet WordPress plugin that will redirect any and all of […]

This site is now running on TextDrive’s servers. I made the switch because they were running a special “Hosting for Life” promotion that will save me a lot of money in the long run; I’ve also heard a lot of good things about TextDrive and their focus on great hosting service for people who “get […]

The new version of Mekosh.org is now officially live! I’ve taken to calling this site design the Dune Grass edition in deference to the Dune Grass tool I used in Photoshop to make the banner image. Dune Grass has been in the works for about two months, but as with all things on this site, […]

I completely missed the Spring CSS Reboot and I wasn’t really interested in redesigning this site as the design was only three months old at the time. However, I do think that the design could use a realignment for the summer. Mostly, I just tweaked the banner and brightened up the page with some new […]

I’m almost certain that the W3C prevents me from calling this site a weblog anymore. The odd thing is, with the exception of very brief periods, I don’t know if I ever ran a blog. However, when the home page shows entries that date back nearly a year (and only displays 10 posts total), something […]