The Tech Blog of Brooke.
I recently updated my laptop to Linux Mint 14 Nadia with this update came a bunch of really great desktop backgrounds (see release notes). I am still using mint 13 on my desktop and because it’s a LTS I have no need to update. I did however want the new backgrounds.
The solutions? Download the mint-backgrounds-nadia-extra.deb and install it. And just like that you have these new backgrounds.
Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.
Today marks my fourth year anniversary having a WordPress.org account and when I remember first starting to use WordPress for my blog. I thought it would be fun to recap what I’ve accomplished since September 27th 2007 and what some of my long term WordPress goals are.
In 2007 I started using WordPress for just my blog didn’t know what I was doing download a theme hacked up some CSS/PHP finally got everything working after hours of trying. Since that time here’s what I’ve been able to do:
Here are some of my longterm WordPress goals:
Do you use WordPress? If so how? How long have you been using it? What are some of the things you like best?
For a while (read: since May 2008) this page has simply been a landing page for my WordPress account. Lately I’ve been thinking about starting a tech blog. The problem, none of my current sites seamed fitting and setting up a new blog just for tech writing seamed silly. Then it dawned on my to transform this blog into my tech blog.
Therefore, from now on this is where I’ll post my thoughts on PHP, jQuery, WordPress and all things related. It is my goal to provide you with useful information, interesting articles, and just a place to come and hang out with the geeky side of BandonRandon.