Things which move around.

4 June, 2009 in Normal by Justin | No comments

There are plans afoot here in the Human bloghold.

I have decided that I am done with using WordPress for blogging, and would love to use something else. I had a wild ride on what evolved from good ol’ b2, but I don’t think that the WordPress project is a proper fit for me these days.

There are things that I think WordPress should’ve had natively a long time ago (Hello, OpenID) that still haven’t made it in, or should have been there a long time ago. There’s a lot of time spent on these other joints, ruckuses, etc. that could probably have been better served in fixing some of the things on this side.

I used to get excited every time a new version of WordPress came out. These days, I just dutifully upgrade to the latest so I’m not the bastard on the box here that has a version that’s 15 updates out of date and screws everyone else up. I’ve stopped caring so much.

I considered Habari as a replacement, but Habari is still not installable on my other hosting package, which means I don’t want to bring it here, where it should still be just as much of a pain in the ass to install.

I won’t touch MovableType. A lot of the bitching between the MT and WP community is what motivates me to bail, as well as the fact that I just don’t like the MT software when I did try using it.

I have to find something that I feel like setting up, that doesn’t suck all that much, is fairly lightweight, and gets me back into the excitement of wanting to talk about myself on the internet.

I hope to be done with the WordPress community by the end of June across all my domains.

 

Speaking of domains and the subject of this post, I am planning on moving this blog, with whatever new software I have chosen, down from this subdomain, to the primary pixelechoes.net name. I avoided it for quite a long time, but I think it’s time to move it. I will try to be kind enough to have it redirect links from old posts and the old URL to the new URL.

Then I can also get back into setting up my copy of ZenPhoto to replace my copy of Gallery 2, which just got ridiculously bloated and was killing things on the server.

 

So yes. This is a month for change, hahaha.

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Things that get fixed…

5 May, 2009 in Boredom by Justin | 1 comment

I just realized today that the time on the server was miles off from what it should be. This explains why my Twitter Tools kept saying my posts were three weeks off, among other things.

Most people would just go in with the date command and reset it manually.

I’m a glutton for style, so I shelled in, ssh’d over to the other server that was off, and installed NTP, so I could let it get some atomic time. Of course, this fixed one issue, but pointed out another: I had a bad plugin installed.

I was using a plugin that would switch WordPress’s time for DST automagically for me, but I hadn’t noticed that it stopped working. So, when I fixed the time, and I tried to fix my time zone, WordPress kept ignoring the changes. I eventually went in, shot the old plugin in the foot, and presto!, I could change the time zone to match appropriately.

Now if only I had sat down and fixed my Gallery. I’m in the midst of transitioning away from Gallery 2 to something much lighter and more appropriate for what I do. I just wish that I could import my old G2 comments into ZenPhoto and get ‘er done.

Anyhow, progress will eventually be made.

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Ikea will be here soon…

4 May, 2009 in Normal by Justin | 2 comments

I’m strangely excited by the fact that we’ll have an Ikea in my city that opens in a couple of days. I didn’t take off opening day because I know that people will have that place packed to the gills so they can shop there, but at the same time, I know I will visit it at least once.

The excitement that comes with a place like this arriving in my area is making me tingle with delight all down my spine. I want to walk around and see what I can afford in there, and what I might set a goal for on Furnish Our Apartment. Since we haven’t done much with Furnish Our Apartment recently, it’d be a nice refresh, so to speak.

Maybe then, I can finally have something not so straight-backed as a dinner table to sit in my living room on.

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By the way…

24 April, 2009 in Normal by Justin | No comments

I just installed a new comments system called IntenseDebate.

I meant to install this months ago, but you know how life gets… :)

Let me know if you all have trouble with it.

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Total Aside, or, “What people search for when they find me!”

24 April, 2009 in Normal by Justin | No comments

I get bored every once in a while and look at what draws people to my site via Project Wonderful’s referrer tracking (since everyone and their mother has apparently blocked Google’s urchin/ga.js for stats tracking >:(!).

In the top 10 referrers, I always see the same few things, and one or two new things a month.

So, here’s some of what I see when I check my referrers today in no particular order:

  • Furry Porn (Hee. Just, Hee. :^) )
  • Trance Vibrator (Rez players will get the reference immediately.)
  • Email (ughnothanks. I get too much.)
  • Cannot see my doctor with medicare and medicaid (No idea how I get a hit for this – I’m on neither program)
  • WHAT IS AN ADENOSINE THALLIUM TEST (complete with cruise control, folks!)

Of that list, only one of those is always there. I neglect to mention the others that’re always there because one’s a PHP error I wanted to know about, another is my blog’s current name, and last is just a variant of one of those that’s always there. :)

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Thinking of a vacation.

24 April, 2009 in Normal by Justin | No comments

I’m sitting here, getting ready for work and thinking to myself, “Lordy, I could use a vacation of some sort. A real one, with blackjack, and hookers a trip somewhere out of the city, perhaps.”

I just don’t really have anywhere to go if I did go on a vacation like that, though, and I’m somewhat wary to be gone from home for too long. Maybe it’s just that homebody sense of mine – I’m usually perfectly fine when I’m at home, and if I’m out, I’d rather be home again.

At the same time, though, I’m sick of home, and would like to get out and see something I haven’t seen in a while, or even ever.

I guess what I’ll do in the interim, since I’m charging up my vacation hours, is I may try to go to Busch Gardens one Sunday or Monday, just to have a change of pace. They do, after all, have a couple of new coasters that I haven’t been on yet. :)

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Complacency, indeed.

30 March, 2009 in Normal by Justin | No comments

Since I found out I have Diabetes, I’ve been strangely complacent, and accepting of most of the changes I’ve had to make to my lifestyle.

I’m a little upset that I’ve had to give up beers, wines, and ales, since I was just starting to discover and enjoy some of those, but not as upset as I thought I’d be. After all, even when I was partaking of them, I wasn’t drinking them often, or drinking much of them, either.

I’ve made a fair switch to sugar-free soft drinks, finding that those sweetened with a blend of artificial sweeteners to be much more palatable than those sweetened solely with aspartame. So I get to keep my (diet) Mountain Dew, but can’t really do the (diet) Pepsi right now.

My blood sugar seems to be mostly regulated right now, hovering around 98-115 when fasting, and maybe around 140 two hours after eating.

I was bad the other day – I had chicken nuggets and a small order of french fries, because I wanted them so badly. Felt a little off-kilter as a result, but there was no nasty spike in my blood sugar as a result. Hell, it still was low even after all that. :)

What I do wish I could find would be chicken nuggets that aren’t breaded, and instead of fried, they’re baked, but then again, I could just get chicken and make that myself. :)

I do miss barbecue sauce, though – holy crap, didn’t know it was THAT loaded with carbs and sugar.

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