So after starting this blog in 2003 and racking up over 2,000 posts, I kind of drifted away in 2008. Things got busy, I sensed a job loss coming, and frankly I was just a bit too depressed to really keep up on things. Now that I’m back to work and things are settling down, [...]
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Yeah, I think I’m back to this thing. You might see some changes in the next few days as I start cleaning up and re-organizing some things.
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I think this is probably the tenth or more format change on the blog. I can’t help myself. I enjoy tweaking. This layout was lifted from Dean Robinson, by way of a Lifehacker post on high quality WordPress themes. This one is called Redoable, based on the K2 theme. A particular feature that attracted me [...]
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I didn’t realize it at the time, but my pizza delivery post was the 2000th of this blog. That’s a lot of wasted time!
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As I have been utterly swamped in my life right now, I’ve asked a few people to guest blog here until I can return. Look for new voices and new content soon.
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You’ll notice the new theme immediately. I’m going to leave this up for a day or so while I try it out. One of the benefits is the ability of the reader to customize the colors. Feel free to give it a go. I really don’t like the defaults, and I’ll be working on tweaking [...]
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If you have a blog or a website, and you find this site even moderately non-offensive, or maybe even feebly amusing, take a moment and give me a link from your site to here. I’m just begging outright now. And I’ll be glad to return the favor.
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Even when expected, deaths are always difficult to deal with. In the early morning this past Thursday, my wife lost what was essentially a second father to her. The father of her closest friend in High School fell down the stairs, suffered some significant injuries, and later died from kidney failure in the hospital at [...]
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Posting has been light, and for that I apologize. It has been a very poor week and I have many, many things going on I’d rather not have to cope with. Work is turning on me, and I have a plate full of personal issues that I’m trying to work through. Nothing horrible, just stuff [...]
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It has been a miserable few days. Sorry for the light posting. Maybe more toward the end of the week. Right now I’m focusing on getting better. Ugh.
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My entire family has been stricken with a virulent, aggressive cold. We’re all laying about trying not to move while downing any and all over-the-counter medications I could fit into a small shopping basket. Posting might be light, or incoherent.
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If you have ever read my blog and thought “I can do better than that” (and who hasn’t, honestly?), here is a really nice screencast tutorial on installing WordPress and getting things configured for your very own blog. I’ve been on Blogger, Movable Type and now WordPress. When it come to ease of use and [...]
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Yeah, still insanely busy. This has been a bad week. Look for content tomorrow, if life cooperates.
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Posting has been slow for the past couple of days. I’ve been busy, but I should return to this space later this evening. Thanks for all of the comments, and I am preparing replies to those that have captured my attention. Also expect another ASL update on my Guadalcanal campaign with Chris Garrett.
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OK, this is strange. Sunday I get on the blog and see a bunch of garbage (no, NOT the content, but garbage formatting and characters). I tinker for awhile and I just can’t get a clean page render. When I go to log in to the admin section, I get the same thing – lots [...]
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Who gets a cold in the middle of July? I have a number of posts partially written, so you’ll probably see some updates soon. Meanwhile, how about those Indian train bombings with 130+ dead? I suspect those militant Lutherans again, how about you?
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You can now find it beneath the title up above.
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It seems lately I’ve been posting more about blog internal stuff than anything else. With the migration to LivingDot, I’ve had to rebuild a lot of the template, restore plugins that I’ve decided are useful, and recover from some mistakes I’ve made in importing my WordPress database. I’m learning a lot about SQL, thanks to [...]
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But without my template and formatting. No big deal, as I was ready to rebuild from the ground up anyway considering a few messes I made with plugin experiments. We should be good to go from here on out.
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Hopefully, these will be transparent to you, but I should mention them in case anything strange happens. As you might have noted yesterday, the blog exceeded my 1 GB/Month bandwidth limit and was shut down. Unfortunately, my blog host has been ignoring all of me support tickets for the past two weeks, so I couldn’t [...]
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