It’s the last day of the year 2010. What better time is there to do what everybody else is doing and dive into Google Analytics and pretend statistics matter….
Around this time last year, I gave myself a challenge: Write at least 52 blog entries throughout 2010. I signed up for Project 52: a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. I haven’t completely risen to…
8 years ago, I posted this to mentalized.net: I have always promised myself that I would not fall prey to the blogging-fever that has been going around, and for a long time the title of my website actually was “This…
A new year has arrived — what better time is there to look back at the year that passed? The decline of blog readers The number of visitors to mentalized.net keeps declining. This is hardly surprising; I don’t write as…
It’s a new year, and of course, this calls for looking back at the year that passed. The short version: 2006 has been a great year for me on several levels. Professionally Career wise 2006 has been coloured primarily by…
BiQ on Rails, Blogging, Copenhagen.rb, Life, Mentalized.net, Projects , 1 comments
It’s been pretty quiet around these parts lately - if you ignore the posts about Copenhagen.rb meetings at least. That’s primarily because I am having tons of fun at work, which for some reason doesn’t leave me much time for…
BiQ on Rails, Blogging, Business, Copenhagen.rb, Life, Mentalized.net, Projects , 0 comments
The DOM structure of Mentalized visualized using this tool….
I’ve received my first Google AdSense payment. Woo, I’m a filthy rich pro-blogger! Flickr is no longer beta! It’s gamma! AjaxLoad is doing cool things with “my” AJAX activity indicator collection. mentalized.net started appearing on kinja. I have no…
mentalized.net Things are looking great for Firefox - at least on this page: BiQ.dk It looks a lot worse on a business-to-business website like BiQ, unfortunately. Such a shame….
Some days ago Dustin Diaz proposed April 5th as the first annual CSS naked day. Basically in an effort to promote semantically correct markup that renders properly even without stylesheets, we should all strip off our styles and show the…
“This is Juliet Lima Sierra. We’re under heavy spam attack. Requesting backup. We’re turning off comments for the duration. Over” Fuckers. Update: Trying to turn comments back on, we’ll see how things go….
Just spotted this in the Movable Type interface: For the first time ever (I think) mentalized.net has more comments than entries. And all of those are legit comments. That’s a long standing milestone reached for me. Thank you those of…
I want snippets of code that I publish here on Mentalized to have fancy colors and syntax highlighting. It makes reading code easier in my editors and it should make it easier here as well. Enter CodeHighlighter. a lightweight, unobstrusive…
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I’ve been digg’d (or is that dugg)? Looks like my 4 month old “tutorial”/satire, how to build your own Web2.0 layout has reached the masses of digg for some reason. This is what 945 diggs can do to your meager…
I’ve just now noticed that a few spam comments have been slipping through the countermeasures I have. Sadly, I didn’t even notice it, since the emails notifying me of those comments got caught in my email spam filter. Ah, the…
Movable Type 3.2 installed, let’s see if this still works… Sure looks like it. Let me know if things are wonky around here, please….
In anticipation of things to come, I’ve redone the style of the site. This isn’t a redesign per se, merely take the old things and restyling them - hopefully adding a bit more style and personality, which the former look…
My recent experiment with live comment previews by virtue of AJAX didn’t fly terribly well and I ended up removing them again. They’re back, thanks to a comment by Nick, which led me to a post by Phil Wilson, which…
Update: Ah well, it was a fun experiment, but I’ve decided to scrap it again, possible in favor of something pure Javascript’ish. The AJAX preview is either too unresponsive to be worthwhile or I send way too many requests against…
It’s that redesign time of the year again, and I was getting tired of the old layout and wanted to try out some new ideas and things. So I pretty much tore mentalized apart and put it back together from…
Gah! I’ve been living nearly without comment spam the last many months due to the bundle of preventive measures I’ve employed. However for some reason Movable Type messed my templates up yesterday, overwriting them with an old template, meaning some…
Since XMLHTTPRequest is damn sexy - in that way only geeks can find things sexy - I figured I’d mess around a bit with my search field. Voila, thanks to Peter Coopers XMLJS and inspiration from Google Suggest, Dunstan Orchard…
If you’re seeing this, something must’ve gone right. I’ve moved Mentalized.net to a new host and upgraded my Movable Type installation from v2.661 to the newest v3.14. I am now away from IIS and crummy ASP/VBScript and onto FreeBSD, Apache…
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I didn’t qualify for Fran�ois Briattes survey of how 10 websites differ on 25 elements, however I’ll pretend I did and examine myself just for kicks. It turns out mentalized.net differs from the norm in 4 of the 25 spots…
Messed around with the new layout a bit today, fixing some issues and likely creating some new ones: The sidebar has been given a background color to seperate it a bit more from the main content. The main navigation links…
Yesterdays redesign post was a bit short since I was lazy and in a hurry. Today I bring you a bit more details about the new layout. Easy now, try to control your excitement….
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For a long time I have been contemplating redesigning this website. Not because it really needed it (I actually quite liked the old look), however I had to redesign something. So I did. There are still a few quirks to…
Well, I wanted to try some things out designwise and ended up creating a new look’n’feel for Mentalized, oops. Vastly inspired by Binary Bonsai and Stopdesign and an old layout I had laying about on my HD. As always, please…
With Mark Pilgrim diving into website optimization I decided to run this site through a size analysis tool. The verdict: TOTAL_OBJECTS - Congratulations, the total objects on this page (including the HTML) is 4 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing…
During the recent weeks I have been fiddling with the internals of this weblog. It appears to be a good place to experiment with ideas and technologies before I move them to bigger projects. Many of the changes shouldn’t be…