Generally speaking one should not mess around with any kind of major upgrade (operating system, router firmware, web service, etc) while drinking–this was lies madness. WordPress upgrades are so painless though, that I can run one from a hotel room while sustaining a mild buzz.
Tag: blogging
Fixing The Asides
Hey, did you notice the “aside” formatting is working again on that last post? You might remember my saying, way back when, that I had noticed that the upgrade to WP 2.8 had broken AsideShop, the plugin I used to do styling for my “aside” posts (Oh yeah, this is going to be some deep WP nerdery–run away!) and I… Read more →
Aside
Yes, I am aware that the asides are not currently rendering as asides. The upgrade to WordPress 2.8 broke the plugin I use to manage that, and I’m giving the author a little time to get it sorted before I toss out the plugin and do it myself. At some point these will look correct again, one way or another.
Aside
That was the 1500th post. That seems utterly ridiculous.
Excuses, Excuses
And that really says all that needs to be said on the subject without risk of boring you with my job-talk, except perhaps to say that this week isn’t looking likely to be any better.. Bless the bus slogan generator for encouraging brevity in cliched posts. Before I leave though, I can’t resist one more: Read more →
The final meme of 2008
Saw this at Margo Lanagan’s blog, and felt like doing it. Things you’ve already done: bold. Things you want to do: italicise. Things you haven’t done and don’t want to—leave plain. Started your own blog – you are reading it, running strong for more than a couple of years Slept under the stars – in a Roman ruin outside Ouchy… Read more →
Aside
Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 was painless, save for the extended tagging plugin I use needing a bit of code tweaking (I’m sure there will be a new version along shortly with 2.7 support, but I was able to make it work for now anyway). Nice UI.
Meme-ery
Infected via Wheeler and Gwenda, I find that: Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test… Traditional, Vibrant, and Tasteful 19 Islamic, 16 Impressionist, 11 Ukiyo-e, -29 Cubist, -30 Abstract and 14 Renaissance! Islamic art is developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine styles were taken over in early Islamic architecture; the architecture and… Read more →
Aside
If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, you probably haven’t noticed that Homo Sum now has “asides”–certain short posts that display differently from the larger more detailed posts.
At the moment they only display differently on the front page–not when you’re looking at them in single pages, or in any kind of archive, or from RSS.
These are implemented with the help of the AsideShop plugin for WordPress.
If I did it right, you can’t tell.
We are now WordPress 2.6, and all plugins are up-to-date (9 updates this week). I believe everything is working correctly, but late-night upgrades from hotel rooms are not always perfect, so if you see something broken, drop me a comment–unless, of course, it’s commenting that’s broken. Heh. Read more →
Everything is OK
Yes, we had a bit of a site outage today. All issues at the ISP: The web sites section of one of the hard drives on a shared hosting server is corrupted. We need to repair the files so that we can ensure your data is preserved. Estimated time is between 6-8 hours. Everything seems to be back to normal… Read more →
Gravatars & Identicons
You may have noticed a while back that I turned on gravatars for comments on the blog. What this means, in a nutshell, for those who aren’t already down is that if you have a “globally registered avatar” at Gravatar.com, then your comments here will show the image beside the commentor name. (Assuming that you use an email address on… Read more →
Maintenance
I’m about to move up to WordPress 2.5. If there are any issues apparent before midnight (EST) assume I’m aware and working on them. After that, please drop me a comment if you see something broken. Read more →
One Thousand (and one)
I am shocked to discover that the previous post was number one thousand. Damn, that’s a lot of my blather. To celebrate my millenipost, I present some of my favourite Latin poetry. This piece is commonly referred to by the highly creative and poetic name “Catallus 5”, since it’s the fifth of surviving works of Catallus. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque… Read more →
Lazy Sunday Links
So, last night we had a ridiculously out of season snowstorm, which dropped almost a foot of snow on us over night. Yes, I am writing this on Easter weekend. Yes, it is April. And yet still I saw this when I looked out the window this morning: The one upside of this is that I got to go out… Read more →
