So much work, so much play, so much family

I was asked recently why I haven’t blogged in a while. Like you might expect, its a mixture of different types of busy.

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Steaming

I love the first part of steaming veggies. The steam sort of drifts up from the bottom pan. It’s beautiful.

P.S. I captured a video but I cannot upload it right now (wrong format) so later I will convert it and put it here.

Upgraded

Upgraded WordPress to 2.6.5.

Testing out another WordPress Plugin

Google Maps for WordPress by Xavisys’ Aaron Campbell.

My Google Analytics hacks in MediaWiki and WordPress appear to be missing

Which is, I guess, okay, since I upgraded them both recently.

But it’s gonna bother me until I fix it all.

“Identify yourself, no?”

“Pinky Carruthuers. Blue-Blaze Irregular.”

I apologize, but it’s been a long time since I created this blog – long enough that I’ve forgotten who y’all are. If you came over from LJ, Welcome! and I’ve already added you to appropriate viewing groups based on your username. But if you created a user name that’s not [...]

I wuz in hole – let me show you it!

Basically, I installed the wrong version of a security plugin (Role Manager, Owen Winkler – only for WP 2.0) on the wrong version of WordPress (2.5.1) and got my own Admin account locked out of Plugin Management (which I needed to properly uninstall the bad plugin and install the good one). Read further to know [...]

Started posting protected content on my WordPress blog

So if you’re reading and interested, you’ll need to register or login to read those posts on the site.

Upgraded WordPress to current version

With Dreamhost’s Goodies page, there were absolutely no problems, and I needn’t have worried about my plugins or themes or theme customizations following me (unlike last time).

I also upgraded my various plugins to current version. Easy peasy (though those took some SFTP and SSH action).

Even more tweaking

With even more hacking, I implemented the image overlay thing the Cutline authors did on their blog. This floats another image on top of the randomly changing header.

I also tweaked the vertical spacing in various header elements to make things look right. The only thing that’s really a hack is the Cutline guys’ deal [...]