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2010 Cleaning

January 11th, 2010 omo

I suddenly found myself at a slow work day, so I’ve finally migrated the current omonomono WP theme over to 2.9 usability. Probably it is better if I spend more time investigating pre-existing themes to avoid reinventing the wheel, but this was pretty quick and painless. The only thing that I might have problem down the road is the static page mouseover things, as there are dynamic versions available… Not that it matters, omonomono is unlikely to go through a design change anyways. Even visual, let alone topical.

If you know any good (meaning very simple) single column themes (no sidebars!) that offers page templates like “archives” and “links” etc and must have a dynamic mouseover page link implementation, let me know.

Another 2010 thing is I joined a gym. Because it was $20 a month and they have a pool. Now it’s just a matter of seeing if I can make the time to go. I am plenty motivated if the facilities are good, actually.

Maybe I can squeeze in some time to actually migrate this thing today. Or perhaps a blog post…

Tags: blogging, wordpress

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Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation – Endless Frontier…ugh

September 4th, 2009 omo

So, I got this DS and is playing a game. Here is one of many jokes localized by Atlus–

Haken: It’s amazing what you can learn from wasting time on the internet all day.

KOS-MOS: Strange… In my time, the Internet is for–

Xiaomu: Sh-Shut up, you fool! Don’t mock my technical expertise!

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Wordpress 2.7.x

April 17th, 2009 omo

Wordpress is well-loved and known for its technical simplicity from the back end. A lot of bloggers are not IT people so they don’t want to mess around with hacking php or tossing files around in shells or whatever. So with 2.7 there is now an “auto-update” mechanism.

Wordpress 2.x is a relatively young platform, and we’re up to 2.7 already, and for every release (like 2-3 major ones for each 2.x increment–like 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2) they want you to upgrade… guh. I mean, okay, it’s something some bloggers do meticulously every month or two, but I can’t be bothered. Especially for those who have like multiple blogs, and each blogs have its own set of plugins that needs to be upgraded, and theme changes, et cetera. PITA.

The old automatic plugin upgrader had some flaws, didn’t work well. The new one, along with the overall Wordpress upgrader, works like a charm. the only problem is you can only upgrade one thing at a time. So if you have 8 plugins to update like I do on this blog, you have to upgrade the main blog (1 set of user internetion) and use the upgrader 8 separate times. Not the same as uploading all the scripts via a FTP queue. But I’ll take what I can get.

Think I’m going to kick up a gear and try to revamp my anime blog soon. Still need to bribe some artists to do some header images for me. Like Eric. Ufufufufufu.

Tags: wordpress

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Way too much to do

February 13th, 2009 omo

This Weeke’s To-Do list, no order:

1. Sleep

2. Talk about Seki Tomokazu’s scheduled appearance @ Animazement on a blog post

3. Set one post live–already wrote it just need top pic.

4. Finish transcribing an interview, and post it

5. Finish writing a post about multi-prong anime marketing and fictional character remixes

6. Do taxes

7. Karaoke @ NYC?

8. Clean my desk

9. Clean the rest of my bedroom

10. Upgrade wordpress

11. Post a lot of Nakiami pictures.

Tags: animazement, conventions

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ISP Trouble, Documented!

July 29th, 2008 omo

Finally–downtime at work WITH web hosting back online. Time to write stuff.

Background info: my web hosting was barfing, so it appears, much of this past weekend. Things were not fully restored until Monday morning.

My webhost is Made2Own. I signed up with them because Arcu recommended it and he was going to get a ref bonus for me signing up. The price was also right (I believe it was a somethingawful goon deal). I think I’m paying $30 a year ($2.50 a month) for 900mb of space (which is kind of small, yeah…) but 30tb of bandwidth. I think I can get shell access for free if I ask for it, or maybe I have it via some convoluted cpanel widget. Not sure, don’t care too too much. Unlimited domains, emails, ftp accounts, etc. The usual stuff from an average bandwidth reseller.

The major downside (besides having only 900mb of space) is that the past 4 years or so I’ve had this, the box I was hosted on got hacked. Twice. It’s not a big deal, just PITA and resulted in about half a day of reacting to it and uploading the backups, after the initial hack was stopped. This past weekend was something that happened for the first time.

There was a server outage for a few hours–all of Made2Own was pwnd, so to speak. Once things were restored all my domain and subdomains were set up incorrectly. Now I say this because I found out what was wrong, but it took a while to do that. I eventually asked for help from the support guys and they were overall courteous and helpful. With their help I was able to get things up and running…

…3 days later. Because it happened on a Friday and they were not exactly the fastest people. By Monday morning I finally found out what was wrong and they fixed the stuff.

Sigh.

Tags: isp

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