Despite the blog being only a few weeks old, I’m already getting a lot of spam in the comments. I have now installed the WordPress Hashcash plugin to prevent spambots from sending comments. The plugin works by requiring the browser to perform a proof-of-work to ensure that it is in fact a browser and not a [...]

As a present to all readers, I’m handing out 17 invitations to Google Wave. All you have to do to get your invitation is to be among the 17 first non-spambot commenters in this post.
Update: There are still 11 invites left.

Google has apparently found my blog quite quickly, it has indexed all pages in less than three days.The funny part was seeing how Google approximated the number of indexed pages.

Sure, when there are millions of pages an estimate that is within 20 of the actual number is fine. But when there are only 24 results [...]

Now that I have code highlighting working, I thought that I should still look into getting some easy way to display mathematical notation. Turns out that WordPress once again delivered, there are in fact several different LaTeX plugins available.
The plugin I settled for is WP LaTeX, since it allowed me to use  wordpress.com’s LaTeX server. This was an [...]

My hosting plan with Dreamhost had an option of using Google Apps with my own domain. In practice, what I wanted was using Gmail, only with my own domain in the address.
The process of setting up Google Apps with an own domain was straight forward. All I had to do was enable Google Apps for [...]