First post on the new blog (aka Intermittent lockups)

I’m now running wordpress 2.0.2, and I’ve been pretty happy so far.  It was running a little slow, so I tweaked some settings and I got it running a little faster.  Hopefully, I’ll get some time to play around with it this weekend, but I’m probably going to burn most of Sunday getting my geek on at the Maker Faire.  The blog is currently using the theme k2, which is an updated version of the wordpress default theme Kubrick.  It’s got a lot of cool features, but I don’t think it’s quite what I’m looking for.  I’ve also been looking at a theme called Leaves Revamped that appeals to the minimalist in me.  I’m hoping to take some of the visual elements of Leaves Revamped and play around with the features of k2.  In the end, this will work for now.  I had been putting off the whole blog move until I moved the images on blogger to flickr, but I looked and I didn’t have any images from after September so I figured I might as well just move it.

In totally unrelated news, I spent the entire day trying to figure out why my new work laptop (a thinkpad t43p) kept suddenly locking up.  After letting the IT department play around with it and not get anywhere, I ended up using the update software that came with the laptop update everything it wanted to.  That included the bios, some firmware, and a few drivers.  It hasn’t frozen up on me as I’ve been playing around on it here at home, but it worked fine over the weekend too.