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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:00 PM: Two movies added to DVD collection and other website changes.
DVD Additions
Although I have had them for awhile, I've added the following two movies to my DVD collection:
Both of these are great movies and I hope to expand my collection on Christmas.
Blog changes
I have also added a widget on the right side of my blog to display a random image from my gallery. In order to do this, I had to install a new plug-in for my blog. It is the Executable PHP widget which allows me to include PHP code between <?php ?> tags. In addition, I have installed the Revision Control plug-in to control how many revisions of a post WordPress saves as I am writing an article. I looked for something like this when I noticed 15 revisions of a post that I had published. Since I am the only one editing my posts, I clearly do not need that many revisions hanging around taking up database space. With this plug-in I have initially setup a default setting of 2 revisions just in case I really screw some post up or something LOL. I may adjust this amount. At least I do have some control over it now.
Main websites changes
I have also changed around the home page of my main website. I moved the weather/flag image to its own section on the right edge above the random gallery image. I never really did like how I had it before as it always appeared odd.. probably some lack of symmetry issue. I think my home page looks much better now. I did modify the gallery image block a little by adjusting the CSS as I thought the way it looked in my blog was better.
Well, I guess that's it for the moment.
- Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:29 PM: Blog has been upgraded to WordPress v2.7
I have updated my blog to WordPress v2.7 which was just released. Once again I did have to edit the /wp-includes/vars.php file to force $is_apache to true (see below) since the SERVER_SOFTWARE variable comes back as WebServerX instead of Apache. Other than that the upgrade went smoothly.
// Server detection /** * Whether the server software is Apache or something else * @global bool $is_apache */ //$is_apache = ((strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Apache') !== false) || (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'LiteSpeed') !== false)) ? true : false; $is_apache = true; /** * Whether the server software is IIS or something else * @global bool $is_IIS */ $is_IIS = (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false) ? true : false;
As always, I did perform a complete database and file backup before upgrading. I also deactivated all my plug-ins before hand as well. I did have to reapply some code modifications that I made related to the RSS Feed widget; however, I'll make a separate post about all that!
- Saturday, December 6, 2008 6:36 PM: Nothing or everything including the kitchen sink?
As you can tell, I have not said anything on here since July. A lot of things have happened since then that I could go on about. So, do I talk about everything in one post or keep it all separate, focused on one topic? I suppose what I could do is just a brief synopsis of what's been going on without too much detail and those things that could be detailed out I will do in some other more focused posts... provided I get around to it LOL. So, in brief what's been going on:
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I've started playing EverQuest II during the past few months. This mostly explains my absence from the blog. :) I've started playing a Warden in the game that has reached level 72 and is also a level 72 tailor. I happen to be on the Befallen server and am currently in the Elysian Storm guild on there.
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I have been dealing with this Gout Arthritis stuff in my right foot.. big toe area. What a pain in the, well, foot. LOL. After this last flare-up I've started taking medicine to help keep my Uric acid levels normal. Looks like I've reached that point in life where you have to start taking some kind of medicine every day. I'm sure being old and over-weight has much to do with it... the body is falling apart. I really need to exercise but my jacked-up foot is preventing that at the moment.
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I have been keeping my WordPress blog and Gallery up to date during this time; however, there were some problems with the latest Gallery upgrade. In short, after upgrading to version 2.3 of Gallery2, I could no longer log in as admin or any other user. It would just timeout/lockup. Thankfully I was eventually able to restore my gallery back to version 2.2.6 and am able to use it fine. I will hold off upgrading my gallery again until they release version 3.
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During my problems with the gallery upgrade, I started to check out the Coppermine Photo Gallery script. To test it out, I made a gallery for my EverQuest character to hold snapshots and so on. Not sure if I want to include a link to it yet. The code is much less complicated to deal with and does seem to put less stress on the server. Customizing the theme also seems much easier and intuitive. My main problem with it so far has to do with how it handles SEO urls and urls in general. The links to image pages are not consistent as they are based on the position of the image in the album and not the actual image. So, if I were to post a link to an image page and then changed the album sorting order or even added new images to the album, that link would all of a sudden point to a different image. Dumb. From what I read about the newer version of Coppermine it will correct that and use image IDs instead which will always be the same.
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During this time there's also been an historic presidential election. As it happens, the candidate I voted for, Barack Obama, won.
Hopefully he can help improve this economy which has gone down the toilet and change how the rest of the world sees the United States. I don't even want to think what my 401K is worth now. The positive thing is that I shouldn't need it for some 20+ years. There's a lot I could go into but this isn't the post for it. -
I have added to my DVD collection during this time; however, I have not got around to creating DVD pages for them yet. Once I do, I'll make a posting about them.
Well, I guess that's it for now and will publish this. The Big 12 Championship game is about to start between the OU Sooners and Missouri and I'll be watching that.
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- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:37 PM: Blog has been upgraded to WordPress v2.6!
Yep.. that time again to upgrade my blog to the latest version, WordPress v2.6. Once again, I had to edit the /wp-includes/vars.php to force $is_apache to true because the server software reports back as WebServerX. Following is the server detection part of the script:
// Server detection /** * Whether the server software is Apache or something else * @global bool $is_apache */ //$is_apache = ((strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Apache') !== false) || (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'LiteSpeed') !== false)) ? true : false; $is_apache = true; /** * Whether the server software is IIS or something else * @global bool $is_IIS */ $is_IIS = (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false) ? true : false;
Other than that, the upgrade went smooth!
- Friday, July 11, 2008 1:27 AM: Four more movies added to DVD collection.
The movies I had lent to my parents have been returned so I can now add them to my DVD/Home Theater page. They are:
In addition to the front DVD cover, I have also included a trailer. I will admit that some of the trailers with these last eight additions are not as good as some of the previous ones; however, the process took much less time and effort as I just downloaded existing flash trailers I found on the IMDb site versus making my own from better quality source material. I might see if I can find a better source to use as these seem to be 25fps and if memory serves the Pathfinder one has an audio problem in the middle of it. Anyway, while I was at it, I also updated some of the content on my DVD/Home Theater page.
General Information
- Background: I was born on June 6, 1969 in Wichita Falls, TX, but grew-up in Edmond, OK, including going to Edmond High School there.
Current Occupation: Oh, finding a new current occupation.
Before my present job, I was: a bank teller, Interned/Co-oped with IBM down in Southlake, TX at their Performance Evaluation Center programming Remote Terminal Emulators, and then worked for the State of Oklahoma in the Department of Vital Statistics (birth/death certificate stuff) for awhile, then spent 13 years working for Creative Labs, Inc starting out as a Technical Support Agent and ending up as a PC Technician/Help Desk Support in the IT Department.
Current residence: Oklahoma City, OK. If you want to know where Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma, or if you want to see what other internet resources there are in Oklahoma, click Oklahoma. Here's another site for info about what's in Oklahoma City.
Graduated May '92 with a Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Sciences from Oklahoma State University.
Hobbies: Computing and all that stuff, Music, Movies, Snow Skiing (it's been awhile since I've been :/ ), Chatting on the internet (generally while working on our website or programming), and goofing off.
Radio Station I mostly listen to is the Classic Rock station KRXO 107.7 FM, followed by: KJ-103 and Rock 100.5 the KATT., all out of Oklahoma City, OK. I also listen to a fair amount of Internet Radio. The two I listen to the most are Club 977, the 80's Channel and Ravetrax (Breakbeat Trance House). I listen to and watch their live video streams using Winamp. Ravetrax rocks, I suggest you check 'em out! I also subscribe to XM Satellite Radio and my favorite stations there are: BPM (Dance, 81), The System (Dance, 82), The 80s (Decades, 8), Top Tracks (Rock, 46), Bluegrass Junction (Country, 14), Cinemagic (Pop & Hits, 27), Squizz - XL (Rock, 48), and XM Classics (Classical, 110)
I have one sister, Jill, who got her PhD in Physical Chemistry, researching the atmospheric chemistry of alkylperoxy radicals (believe I got that right.. has to do with lasers, studying molecular behavior of various gases, CO2 and Ozone among others).. at the University of Colorado She's now a Research Associate at the University of Kansas.
Website was created with HomeSite v4.5 After Macromedia purchased HomeSite I stopped upgrading. It seems to do the things I want.. so why upgrade? Also, some aspects of version 4.5 that I use on occasion were removed from later versions.
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