In Shadows

Found a programming error on my website.  Seems my random short story links on the left were incorrect.  I’ve fixed them.
Now to find something else to distract me from the possibility of losing my lunch.  (Yes, the flu my wife had last week has finally worked its way to me.  Blech.)

My latest obsession . . .  Things at work are changing (mixed bag, both for the better and the worse.)  I’m literally taking over the department as our previous operational supervisor has moved to a different department.  Better for me physically, but I hate phones.  LOL
Now that I’m managing all sorts of crap, I need […]

To Hakan Aydin, the man who created the Wordpress theme I’m using as the basis for my site. After weeks of fighting and fuming on my part, and weeks of being slammed with emails on his, we finally connected so he could help me through a slight hurdle.
You’ll note that there’s a bar above […]

Finally indexed the ‘Online Reading’ tab with all the stuff I have on the website. I split the short stories up into a couple of categories . . . Slow Movin’s stories are listed separately, and those one-shot PWPs written for listed novels are now placed together.
I’m not in the mood to reprogram […]

Not that there’s a lot there, but some . . . I’m going to take a closer look at the CSS for the gallery. Maybe I can get it closer to the color I want, and change the header, too.
Vacuuming is complete. Still need to clean the bathroom, sweep and mop. […]

I’ve got most the general tweaking done. The links on the header do work, and there are other links on those pages. I’ve updated the bio FAQ a smidge.
My gallery is still offline because it takes forever and a day to upload it. I hope to get that done by […]

It WORKED!
* Happy dance! *
Yesterday I CHMOD my .htaccess file to include executable (which it hadn’t been.) It was only this afternoon that I updated Permalinks for the dozenth time. This time, however, I skipped past my custom setting and picked one of the others.
And now Pages works! […]

After all that work, I’ve discovered those text boxes on the sides aren’t… They’re graphics designed to look like text boxes. *sigh* So, it’s back to the lesser colored theme.

… a new theme. This is closer to what want in that there are separate text boxes for posts and items on the menu. (And three columns.) I shall now fiddle with it.

Or And More Geeky Goodness
To divert myself from the website tweaking, I focused on my browser. I have a Mac, using OS X 10.3.9. Up until the last few months, Firefox 1.5 has been an excellent browser. Works fast (and I tweaked it to work faster,) which is a good thing for […]

Unless you’re my wife and have had to listen to all the heavy sighs, muttered curses, and occasional stomping out of the house lest the computer go off the balcony…
Tweaked the style sheet as best I can. At least I have the background and image correct. Originally, I had darker text boxes for […]

… about Wordpress 2.0:
1) Widgets are great!
2) The interface is cool.
3) Widgets rock the house!
4) The three column theme I’m using is pretty nice (it’ll be better when it’s tweaked.)
5) Did I mention how awesome Widgets are?
Things I hate about Wordpress 2.0:
1) Pages! They SUCK!
2) Having to […]

Akismet ROCKS!  Thanks again, Storme!  I’ve only been back up for an hour and its caught four spams!
Looks like all the hard work tweaking my site to three columns, colors and header image are all in the can.  I have the files, but it’s not working with WP 2.0.  I’ll have to spend my weekend […]

At least I have Wordpress back up and running. I had to delete everything from my site to do it, though. I’m now going to reinstall my story files.
Sorry if I interrupted anybody’s reading today!!

Thanks to Storme for info on a Wordpress plugin that blocks comment and trackback spam! YAY!
Unfortunately, it only works with WP 2.0, and I’m at 1.5. This means a total upgrade. I’m laying the groundwork now, backing up the mysql database, downloading what I need, backing up the individual files […]