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Updates and the wait

Administrator — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:00:13 +0000

Added Globally Recognized Avatars (gravatars) to the ‘blog… if you have a gravatar registered with gravatar.com, it should show up on any comments you make. Firefox seems to handle the CSS differently than Explorer… well, nothing’s perfect.

The laptop didn’t show up Friday; but the Order Status page changed… it’s now “in production” with an estimated arrival date of 11/1. Dammit, I’m an “instant gratification” kind of guy, I want my toy NOW!! Ah, well.. Maybe I’ll have it for the two weeks of Defensive Tactics Instructor class in November.

Whew!

Administrator — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:24:50 +0000

By the time you read this, the domain transfer from ochosting to bluehost will be complete. The subdomains seem to be propagating fine, and I spent the day screwing with CSS templates to get the look right. There are still some static pages that aren’t formatted quite right, because they originally used tables. Yeah, yeah, CSS positioning is the future, more powerful than tables, yadda yadda. But they’re an enormous, confusing, pain in the ass. Up for tomorrow is attempting to make the photo gallery match the rest of the site. By the way, if you create an account on the ‘blog, it will propagate to the photo gallery. If you have a personal gallery, you will get an option to add photos to your ‘blog posts.

The other event of the day was the Sheriff’s Office annual banquet. My roommate, Ian, and I created a video for it last year that was very well received; we created another one for this year. All I had to do was show up and play it at the right time; someone else was supposed to be handling everything else, such as the sound board and speakers and all that. Unfortunately, apparently no one knew who that someone else was supposed to be, so I ended up scurrying around retrieving the sound board and speakers, borrowing Ian’s laptop and getting the Training projector, and hooking it all up. Not too happy about that. I hope someone appreciates my- and Ian’s- efforts.

I also got a letter from Household Bank saying my credit application for the new laptop had been rejected, dated the same day that Household Bank told me on the phone I was approved. Gateway says the order is fine and will be delivered on the 21st. Hmm. We’ll see.

Yet another new site

Administrator — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:50:05 +0000

Last weekend, my previous web host, OC Hosting, unceremoniously blocked access to all my sites on 5100bac.net because the version of the forum software I was using, phpBB, was out of date and had a security hole. Never mind that if their security is set up properly, someone hacking my site won’t affect the rest of the server. I looked at how hopelessly out of date it was and decided to just switch to another method of keeping this blog and the photo album. So, we’re now running WordPress for the blog- I didn’t feel I really needed a whole modded phpBB portal for just a blog- and Coppermine for the photo album. The photo album is linked to the blog; if you create an account on one, it’s created on the other. I also switched to Bluehost for hosting; I’ve been with OC for a few years, but their service and quality has been going downhill.

Anyway, all the pictures are up in the gallery and all the old blog entries transferred; still have to update photo descriptions and re-do the theme so everything matches.