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!

For the last several weeks I’ve noticed strange things on my blog. For instance, when editing a post, my theme’s header appeared in the edit area! Occasionally I would see load failures on admin and blog pages. Yesterday, when I returned from SuperBoo VII, I logged in to post and there were no editing tools! I loaded a previous post and the text area was blank – or so I thought. Turned out the text was all white and I could see it if I selected … Continue Reading

You should see a Google Wave here. It is configured to be a public Wave so everyone can see it and post to it.

Testing complete so I REMOVED the embedded Wave.

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.

Every January, my sons’ Boy Scout troop goes cabin camping on the (frozen) lake at our Council’s camp. I posted about our ice fishing experiences back in January. I forgot that I had taken some video of another favorite activity at the Cabin Camp – potato canons! Also called Spud Guns, Spudzookas, and potato launchers – checkout this article on How Stuff Works for more details on how to build them and some theory of operation.

These canons can shoot a full size potato 100s of feet – we fire them out on to the frozen lake. This year, … Continue Reading

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.

As I mentioned in the last Shrugh post, we’ve been getting a lot of great feedback and doing some brainstorming on Shrugh. Last time I described how users respond to shrughs. This time, I have a demo that shows the simplified shrugh creation process. It also has a couple of new bells and whistles – like how Shrugh automatically finds other shrughs similar to yours based on words in your shrugh and description.

My goal is to have this idea implemented in the next week … Continue Reading