wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

yet another geek blog about Seattle, food, gadgets, games and the art of laziness

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Switched to WordPress 2.0

Yes, yes I know. I’ve been ignoring this blog for too long. I’m trying to fix that. One of my biggest peeves was the clunky and slow movabletype UI and posting system. It even refused to play nice with Performancing for Firefox. I finally got frustrated enough to migrate to WordPress 2.0. The installation was [...]

MT Blacklist works

Site comments have been enabled for a while now, and so far life is good. Had some spam attempts but MT Blacklist did its job.
Now waiting for the trackback spam to hit.

Movable Type 3.14

Two days after I’d fixed comments on the site, it got hit with comment spam. Searching for solutions to the movable type comment spam problem turned up recommendations to upgrade to Movable Type 3.14 first. That’s done now and comments are back on.
A nice bonus… the management UI incompatibilites with Firefox seem to have been [...]

Blog comments fixed

I finally fixed the comments for this blog (thanks Sajida). Some obscure MovableType configuration of course.
Finally found help via the MT support forums here.

Caught red handed

I know you couldn’t care less, but I’ve finally posted an about page for this blog.

The Resurrection

Yes, it has been a tremendously long gap. But I have good excuses. I changed jobs, moved 1166.5 miles, bought a house, and misplaced my PC somewhere in cold storage.
I’m back now, and trying to catch up very quickly.

The birthing

Hello world.
Welcome to the blog at waqasahmed.com. I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, but as always I have my laziness to blame.
What will this blog be about? Good question. I don’t know myself. Probably nothing. Whatever I’m dealing with at the moment… technology, media or rants.
It’s going to take a [...]