A couple days ago, Ryan and John pointed out to me that they had some usability issues with the color of the links on my site when you hover over them. I had been making them white, but that was just too hard to read on the light background of the site, especially for [...]

After moving my sites to Dream Host, I made some upgrades the Taiwan Blog Feed.

Toshuo.com is in the process of changing hosts. Soon it will all be hosted on Dream Host, thus making it one of the cool kids again. I’ll have over 1.7 terabytes of bandwidth a month, too! Details will follow shortly!
Update: The migration is complete! Toshuo.com, as well as all of my other [...]

Now that I’m on vacation it’s time to mess around with my site! Unwilling to be restrained by the adequate blogroll feature built into Wordpress, I’ve broken free of it’s constraints! Instead of the built in system, I just put all of my links into a separate .php file. Then, I added [...]

Wordpress 2.1 is out, and I’ve just installed it. It’s actually a much bigger update than I had realized. Here are the biggest changes I’ve noticed:

The visual editor is far better than it was before. You can also tab back and forth between the WYSIWYG editor and the code very easily.
There’s a [...]

I’ve been thinking about making a static home page for Toshuo.com for quite a while. According to my site traffic logs, most of the visitors to this site are new visitors who come in through search engines as opposed to regular readers. I suspect that most people who stumble across this site have [...]

I’ve recently added quicktags to Toshuo.com. Commenters here have always been able to use various HTML tags, such as <i>, <b>, <a>, and <blockquote>. For those commenters who run their own sites and are familiar with HTML, it’s been usable. Still, I want to make it a bit easier for people who [...]

I’ve decided to keep track of my diet, workouts and results in detail and put it all online. Blogging is a pretty social activity, and a social support network is a great thing for someone trying to lose weight. So, it seems fitting to put all of my diet info onto my blog. [...]

There was an odd hardware failure on the server that my blog and the Taiwan Blog Feed were both hosted on. Fortunately, the databases weren’t affected and Hostgator managed to restore pretty much everything. Some of the recent changes I made in the TBF have disappeared, but that’s about it.

As my long-time readers know, I started my blog on Blogger at http://doubtingtoshuo.blogspot.com. I later moved it to http://toshuo.com mostly because John emailed me and told me I was blocked in China. Wordpress kind of annoyed me at the outset, but I’ve since gotten pretty accustomed to running a blog on my own [...]