I did it. I bit the bullet. I upgraded to WordPress 2.9. The upgrade to 2.8 several months ago left me shellshocked. It didn’t go smoothly, as WordPress 2.8 is a bloated memory beast. The later bugfix releases of the 2.8 branch brought the memory requirements back in line, and it turned out to beContinue reading “On the Newest WordPress Upgrade”
On Fixing the Phone
Thursday night I stood in the kitchen, and I heard something. It sounded like music. It sounded like the kind of music the Nintendo or the Super Nintendo would have made back in the day. But where was it coming from? What could be making it? I turned my head this way and that, wanderedContinue reading “On Fixing the Phone”
On Snowy Day Coding
There’s a new version of WordPress out today, and I’ll probably download it and upgrade this weekend. After the experience of moving to WordPress 2.8 — which wasn’t pleasant — I’m a little cautious. The main issue with that upgrade — the WordPress memory bloat — was resolved in one of the bugfix releases. It’sContinue reading “On Snowy Day Coding”
On 2009 in Review
I’ve seen this here and there on friends’ blogs. What did they write about on the first day of each month in 2009? What does that say? Let’s take a look at my 2009, just from the first day of each month. January — On Stratfordians, Oxfordians, and “The Brain of Morbius”. A post comparingContinue reading “On 2009 in Review”
On Finishing Up the Redesign
A couple of people have asked whatever became of my blog redesign, which I started working on about two weeks ago, give or take. Well, it’s done, actually. I didn’t felt any need to announce to the world, “I did new stuff with WordPress! Come take a look!” 😆 I know, that’s so unlike me.Continue reading “On Finishing Up the Redesign”
On Oddball Christmas Albums
I have bought an underwhelming Christmas album on iTunes. I like Christmas music. For being a godless heathen, I enjoy listening to it year ’round. I have many different Christmas albums. Medieval and Renaissance-styled. Vince Guaraldi and other jazz standards. Celtic. Even some Beatle-esque Christmas albums, which I wrote about here a few years ago.Continue reading “On Oddball Christmas Albums”
On Cats I Have Known
On my desk at work I have three framed photographs. One, situated next to a plush Cthulhu beanie, blue with a yellow heart and a smile, is a picture of my niece. She would have been, at the time the photo was taken, about three, maybe four months old. She’s wearing a brown dress withContinue reading “On Cats I Have Known”
On Christmas Shopping for my Grandmother
Today, I bought Christmas presents for my grandmother. Buying presents for my grandmother is difficult because it is pointless. Anything important is lost upon her, anything useful would go unused. Her birthday, which falls on Christmas Eve, is even more difficult; she understands that the day is someone‘s birthday, but she cannot recollect that itContinue reading “On Christmas Shopping for my Grandmother”
On a Zeppelin-Esque Christmas
Because it’s Christmas-time, and because I like strange and silly and obscure Christmas music — like the conversation I had yesterday about The Royal Guardsmen and “Snoopy’s Christmas” — I thought it only fair to point out a Christmas song that I’ve liked since I first heard it. It’s “Winter Wonderland,” done in the styleContinue reading “On a Zeppelin-Esque Christmas”
On a Shortage of Christmas Tree Stands
My sister called. I couldn’t tell if she was laughing or if she was crying. There’s a Christmas tree stand shortage in Raleigh. She’d bought a tree at Lowe’s. She needed a stand. They were out. She went to Target. She went to Wal-Mart. She went to Kmart. She went to the grocery store. Someone,Continue reading “On a Shortage of Christmas Tree Stands”