Tagged as: Blog, House, Personal, Wedding
Jun
28
If it’s true that the importance that things have wavers according to what else is happening then I guess it just goes to show that this blog didn’t have a really high place in my heart. While I have been making sure that it’s still running and checking on it every now and then, I have not written a new post in quite awhile. But now that I am sitting here in my very own house with this ring on my finger I guess that the blog is rising back up.
I sure am glad because I have not had a public place to air my thoughts. And that means that either I have been keeping it in or even worse I have not been having any interesting thoughts. I enjoy writing posts that act as a running commentary on interesting thoughts that I have rather than those of a personal nature, but I figured that I needed to break back into this whole blog thing with something easy. And what is easier than spilling about what has already happened to you?
So that was my way of saying sorry for not writing, but I was busy buying a house and getting married! But I’m back!
Tagged as: Blog, Geek, Wordpress
Apr
25
Oh boy that was sweet. Okay let me qualify that by saying that I enjoy when things are easy and efficient. If you feel differently, then you may very well disagree with me.
So on a nice lazy morning I decided to look into converting my permalink structure to one that I preferred. Permalinks are how WordPress describes permanent links to a post. When I first started this blog a couple of years ago (seriously, that long??) I decided on going with a fairly standard /yyyy/mm/dd/post-name type of structure for my posts. However, I am now a little opposed to this since it reveals more information than I would like. I tend to think that my writing transcends time since I am not usually writing about current events so I want to remove a visitor’s perception that my post is not worth reading just because it is old.
After searching online, I came upon Scott Yang’s Permalink Redirect plugin. The instructions seemed easy enough so I:
- Downloaded it
- Unzipped, installed, and activated it
- Accessed the new Settings->Permalink Redirect page. Under “Old Permalink Structure” clicked the link after “Current permalink structure”
- Accessed Settings->Permalinks. Changed to a /post-id/post-name structure. (I used tags that I found here.)
All of my old links are now redirecting correctly! And that, my friends and enemies, is sweet! Especially since it took less time than it has taken me to write this post. I’m loving WordPress all over again for its abilities, both built-in and extensible.
Tagged as: Blog
Dec
12
So I think that now I’m okay after upgrading my version of WordPress (via subversion) to 2.7. Let me say that the new Dashboard (the part that the site owner looks at) is pretty darn nice now. You can drag and drop things, and it has all kinds of AJAX goodness.
But I also had some difficulties while upgrading. Namely, I had to fiddle a bit to get everything working alright. I’d been using Brian’s Threaded Comments, and the move from that to the new baked-in threaded comments wasn’t too hard. I just needed to update my theme, which is thankfully a custom one that I wrote so I know the ins and outs of it. So I made a new comments page that looks fairly similar to what it looked like before. The threading was maintained on old posts, and I definitely count it a success.
Then I realized today that my commenting isn’t working! While using Brian’s Threaded Comments, I had been using a custom comment posting page to hinder spam. However that meant that I wasn’t using the normal page. So when I switched to the normal page (wp-comment-post.php), it wasn’t working! I had to realize that the “Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by …” error was because I had some extra lines in the aforementioned comment posting page. Removed those, and all is well.
So if you tried to comment recently and that didn’t work for you, I apologize.
But now that I think that I’m all good, I can enjoy how nice this new version is. You won’t be able to tell because it looks the same to you, but if you’re thinking about blogging then consider WordPress.com (if you don’t have a server) and WordPress.org (if you do have your own server).
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then good day to you, and I hope that you’re doing well. Cheer up, at least gas is approaching $1.50 per gallon (it was $1.66 at Costco when I got it this morning).
Tagged as: Amazing, Blog
Apr
09
So over a year after starting, I’m at 200 posts. It didn’t take too long I guess. Oh well at least it’s not 50 days after starting!
I’ve gone from posting things that I really wanted to put out there to posting everyday about stupid stuff that I found online to posting once a week some things that I see in life. And sometimes I even post things that will be useful to someone else.
But one thing is constant, this is my blog, and I get to do whatever I want with it! And I love that! 
Still, the fact that I’ve written that many entries is pretty amazing to me. Let’s not think about how much time was spent writing those things. Rather, let’s enjoy the fact that I have an outlet by which to release my thoughts. Priceless, I’m sure.
Tagged as: Blog, Internet
Nov
04
Commenting is a fun part of going around to different blogs. One thing that I’ve found is that it’s easy to respond to comments left on my own blog because I have a central place to access them from (namely my WordPress administration panel). It allows me to easily have conversations with people that stop by and leave comments.
Leaving Comments On Other Blogs
However I’ve found that it’s not quite as to do with comments that I’ve left on other blogs. The reason for that is because I don’t have that central place to access to see all of my comments! I’m not very well going to remember the URL of every post that I leave a comment on. That would frankly be ridiculous.
I’ve found a key to this problem. I’m sure that there are others out there, but I think that this one works decently enough. Check out co.mments.com if you want to see what I mean. In fact, you can even let other people see what you’re commenting on so that they can check it out and see if they’re interested in the same posts! Here is my public co.mments.com page.
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