Quote: Alhacen

“The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth be his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side.” – Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen, sometimes spelt … Continue reading →

Is Google Chrome hogging your memory?

Chrome is a great browser, but it can slow down your Windows system. It’s more than just a browser. Even when it’s not running it can hog resources. If you delete it from Windows startup, it reinstalls itself as a startup app. Take a look at these pictures of memory usage: But like Chrome, IE … Continue reading →

I couldn’t get the Oxygen theme to work

The Oxygen theme looked very attractive: with some very powerful options, like a slider for the latest posts. I spent most of the afternoon trying to get it work, and in the end threw up my hands in despair and switched back to my old faithful TwentyTwelve theme. Continue reading →

Setting up this blog using Oxygen theme

One problem arose. The Oxygen documentation says: Login to your WordPress admin panel and navigate to “Pages -> Add New”. Fill in a page title – ‘Home’ for example (doesn’t really matter) and then click the “Template”dropdown list. Select “Front Page” and then click the “Publish” button. But there’s no “Front page” template, so I don’t know how all the rest … Continue reading →

Quick photo post

Testing sending photo of me.from Android phone. Posted from WordPress for Android Continue reading →

Test post from Android phone

Testing new WordPress blog. Posted from WordPress for Android Continue reading →