EclecticGuy

I am continually amazed at how easy and reliable it is to upgrade WordPress. This upgrade to 3.0 was no different! It took less than 1 minute start to finish. Highly recommended!

The new Tenkara Fly Fishing DVD by Tenkara USA is very well done! I just received my copy and watched it last night. I actually attended the presentation by Dr. Ishigaki at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center in May last year. That is where I got my introduction to tenkara and got hooked on it. Since then, most of my local river (small stream) fishing has been tenkara.

The section “Tenkara in the Land of Little Rivers” was shot in the Catskills. One of the attendees, … Continue Reading

The manuscript for my book on reel making, The Reelsmith’s Primer is finally done! I will send a copy of it to my publisher, The Whitefish Press, tomorrow. I feel really good about it and learned a lot in the process. Early on, I created a reelsmithing community and used it to solicit ideas, provide feedback, and sanity check my writing and instructions. It was a huge success!

One of my goals for the book was to make it practical for … Continue Reading

My publisher has a fantastic fishing/history blog – Fishing for History. Every Friday he posts a Video of the Week. This week’s music video is so funny and so good I just have to share it here! It can be found on YouTube too.

Cheers!

I pre-ordered Snow Leopard from Apple to have it delivered first thing on its release date – August 28th, 2009! Apple came through, the package arrived by 10am and was waiting for me when I got home from work. The package is a single DVD installer. Simply insert the disk and double click the installer, it does the rest (no rebooting from the DVD). It took about 55 minutes start-to-finish to install on my 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with one automated reboot during the … Continue Reading

Well, I just had to get the new iPhone 3G S. I’ve been an iPhone fanatic since the original came out 2 years ago. Last year, I upgraded to a 16 GB 3G and loved it. The GPS feature has been great. Well, when I heard that the 3G S has a 3 megapixel camera AND a video camera, along with a real compass, I just had to have one. In addition, the 3G S is supposed to be 2X faster than the 3G.

I … Continue Reading

Wow, another super easy and trouble-free, automated upgrade of my blog to version 2.8! Thank you Open Source.

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.7. This update required a database update but it all went smoothly. The admin interface is completely new. Seems reasonable to use so far.

The upgrade went smoothly last night during low activity hours. It always impresses me how sophisticated yet simple WordPress is to manage.

Well, overnight Shrugh.com and my blog post about it yesterday have climbed to the #1 and 3 spots on google! I haven’t even started adding the metatags in my HTML to make it even more visible by google. That’s part of my weekend project.