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New Theme…again!

So I decided to go very minimal with the theme this time. Its kind of the direction I have been moving for awhile. I am probably going to make a few more changes, but not much, I am very pleased in general. What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Backup, or Things to not do like me.

So I have been looking around for some old code I have written to criticize(or post on github) and it led me to go looking around this blog for code I had written since I started writing this. The first thing I realized is that I am terrible at backup, I actually have non of [...]

Blog Migration

When I started the latest iteration of this blog, I forgot I had backups for my blog so I couldn’t take the SQL export and import it directly to this blog or I would break everything.
Today however, I decided I would put in the bit of effort to get all the old blog posts [...]

Stupid IE…

I just saw this site with Internet Explorer for the first time, it actually looks terrible. I am definitely going to have to rethink the theme, expect some changes to come soon.

Woops…or how I messed up my computer…

So I have really been pushing to get some posts going here, but it seems like every time I have the opportunity to get something going something else comes up. I have 2 posts now in the pipe, just need to be edited and then they are good to go. That being said, I messed [...]

New Beginnings

So after a long hiatus, mikegrouchy.com is back. I lost all the archives for the old blog through an unfortunate computer incident(formatted my backups! woops!), so comes the unique opportunity for a new beginning, a blank slate if you will.

Nothing to see here!

Nothing to see here! Explanation after the break :P

Not being able to blog.

Due to back pain I have been avoiding blogging/the computer all last weekend and will continue this week(just here on my lunch break now). I’m hoping that once my back/neck shows improvement I will be back blogging again in full force..I have even resorted to pen and papering blog entry ideas, so hopefully soon you [...]

Major Back Pain or Why I haven't been blogging.

I haven’t been blogging much lately due to severe pain I have been having in my shoulders neck and wrist. I think all this pain has been cause by a combination of and incorrect workstation setup at work and also using my laptop while lying down and such at home. Needless to say, I took [...]

Appropriate Hyperlinking

Over at Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood has a great article on Hyperlinking guidelines called Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking . I was reading through the guidelines and the article and I saw a few things on there that I do incorrectly, such as having links which have the text “Click here”. I’m going [...]