Wordpress 2.5
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 complete. I don’t think it’s broken anything, but if it has, let me know.
Doing upgrades to software without…
a) apt-get
b) ssh access
…is a pain.
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Tags: pain, upgrade, wordpress
A New Beginning
If I’ve done my job well, you should hardly even notice, but things have changed.
There’s always been things I wanted to do. Having comments appear on the same page as a single post for example, but doing so would have required custom development and the fact is that I’m far too lazy to do it. I just want to write, not deal with building the pen and paper that’s going to allow me to do that. So I’ve got myself a webhost, an installation of Wordpress, and here we are. If nothing else, then I’m also finally using the proper domain for the site.
All my existing posts are here, and all existing permalinks should still work (yes, I had to hack Wordpress to make that possible, which goes against my idea of not building things myself, but sacrifices always have to be made). There are some images broken, especially those that were previously uploaded via the Blogbear image system. I’ll work out what to do with them eventually, but there’s not really anything that important in there anyway.
Now that everything is here and looks like it did before (or close enough), I can start building on top of it, adding the things I want to add, following the ideas I want to follow. I have a feeling this may involve some custom PHP, but I can swallow my Perl pride and write a few lines just to make everything fall into place. And that’s the point, a few lines, rather than a few thousand lines, and I can finally have a blog I can be proud of.
There’s a good chance I may also steal a bunch of ideas from Graham, but we’ll see.
Thursday, January 10th 2008 at 10:26 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
New
Not only am I up to date, but the blog also has a fresh new design for 2007. Even though it’s September. And it’ll be 2008 soon.
The pictures at the top were all taken by Andrea at Irvine Beach, and there were so many great ones it’s just a shame I can’t use them all. My thinking is that every now and again I’ll stick a new set of pictures in rotation to keep things fresh.
As is always the case with a new design, there may be issues with your particular browser. I’ve tested with IE6, Firefox and Safari and it looks the same in all, but if you see anything amiss then let me know.
Monday, September 3rd 2007 at 11:29 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
Blogging
Something I forgot to note before is that I’ve now been going a solid two years with a blog post (nearly) every day. There’s a couple of minor holes in there, but I’ve done double posts on other days that hopefully even that out a little bit. Coming up with something to say every single day has been a constant battle because hey, let’s be honest, I don’t always do the most interesting things. But I still keep going because I figure that in twenty years time it’ll be interesting to look back and see what I was up to. Even now being able to look back 2 years today is fun (although it looks like that day wasn’t).
And to those of you who have blogs but never update them, or don’t have one at all, think what you’re potentially missing out on. You can’t be any more dull than me.
Friday, July 7th 2006 at 11:16 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
Three
It is exactly three years since I wrote my first blog post, at time using Blogger. In it, I mention Blogbear and Chatbear v2, proving that some things never change. Shortly therafter I switched to using Blosxom, and eventually in September 2003 to this weird Blogbear v0.1 I’ve been dealing with since.
It actually seems like longer than three years, so much has happened in that time. I still like the fact that I have a record of it all, and that even in the posts in which I’m being deliberately coy, I still know myself what was going on at the time. I continue to write this for me more than anyone else, it just happens to be publically available. If people enjoy it, then great, but it’s being able to look back at myself in 20 years that’s the most important thing.
If you want to know who I am, then reading just a couple of posts here and there probably isn’t going to do it. But as a whole, the parts of the life rollercoaster that I decide to share paint a pretty strong picture.
Friday, March 3rd 2006 at 11:31 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
Promised
I had actually promised myself I wouldn’t redesign the blog until Blogbear launched to the public, but I just couldn’t wait any longer, especially after going to all the trouble and expense of buying a Polaroid camera and having Graham take the photos. So here it is, the fresh look for 2006. There are 20 different header variations and over 1400 date graphics involved in it’s production.
It wasn’t all plain sailing, the main blog post database table errored today as well, much the same as the board one did a few days ago. I managed to do the same trick, export and import, and it all appears to be running smoothly, but I find it strange that it happened on this table too. My best guess is that it has something to do with the fulltext index both the blog and board tables have on them, it’s the only thing that sets them apart from all the other tables on the server that appear to be fine. I guess something changed with how that works between MySQL 4 and 5.
Saturday, January 21st 2006 at 11:55 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
Meaningful
You may have noticed I’ve missed a few days over the past week or so. This is a deliberate decision to stop trying to shoehorn in any old crap just to fill another square at the top of the page. I’ll now and try and keep posts until I actually have something meaningful to say.
Actually, scratch that, I’ll post whenever I just have something to say. Meaningful is probably a bit of a stretch at this late stage.
Monday, June 13th 2005 at 10:35 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
One
It is now 1 year since I decided to write a post every day, instead of the random posting schedule I had before that. Originally designed to clear up my head in order to help me sleep, I’m not sure what the purpose is anymore. I keep writing it though, in the hope that maybe one day I’ll find a use for it.
If my memory serves correctly then there’s only one day that I’ve actually missed completely in the last 365, which isn’t a bad record, and certainly the longest that I’ve actually managed to sustain something (I’m pretty terrible for sticking to something once it’s started). I’d write some code to generate some pointless stats based on the text I’ve produced in the last year, but that’ll have to wait until a later date.
One pointless stat I can give you without code though is that even after a year of solid writing, the content hasn’t got any more interesting.
Monday, May 30th 2005 at 11:17 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
Strict
As a practice session for the Bearthing site and administration system, which will all be done like this, I just finished recoding all the HTML here by hand, using strict 4.01 HTML. All CSS, and no tables. It validates too. If you’re geeky and care about that sort of thing (generally I don’t).
I did all this while half-asleep and battling a killer headache. And now I’m done, I feel no satisfaction whatsoever. Which makes me wonder why I bothered when I could have just gone to bed.
Sunday, May 30th 2004 at 1:43 am / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
All Change on the Western Front
I threatened to do it a couple of weeks ago when I first mentioned Blosxom, but now I’ve followed through and dropped Blogger.
I did have a good think about whether or not it was a good idea, but Blogger’s interface really isn’t designed for non-IE browsers (despite what they say) and since I spend a lot of my time on Mac OS X, where using IE is a bit like beating yourself over the head with a blunt object, Blosxom fits the bill better.
I’ve moved over all the old posts and re-designed the page (since I’m no longer using Blogger I don’t feel I should totally steal their design, even if I am still being influenced by their font selection) and am now playing with the plugins to see what I like and don’t like (I’m using Blosxom v2.0 RC2).
Monday, March 24th 2003 at 9:01 pm / My Blog / Permalink / Post Comment »
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