Tinkering With WordPress

As part of my Saturday night tinkerfest after getting nothing else done, I decided to mess with WordPress.

Why My Wife Is A Better Person Than I Am: Part 274

So we had a big scare this weekend. Over the last couple of months, we’ve been trying to change our eating habits just a little…a little less crap, and a lot more veggies. We started out Friday with the chopping of the veggies for stir fry. We’ve both gotten fond of Thai stir fry. I like the hot basil stuffs, and she likes the coconut/peanut sauce stuff.

After we got done eating, Margo jumped up, ran upstairs and screamed call 911. As I called 911, she was chewing up Benadryl like they were tick tacks. She was having a major allerigic reation and her throat was closing fast. Once they ambulance got there, they took her to the hospital where she spent the night.

We know she’s allergic to seafood, iodine, and penicillin. We don’t know yet if this was a cross contamination issue (fish products made in the same place the peanut sauce is made), or if her body has just decided that she is now allergic to peanuts. She’ll be having an allergy test in a couple of weeks. She’s fine for the most part, although her throat is still irritated and she appears to be having some small relapses. Supposedly it can take at least 6 days for allergins like that to be purged from the body completely.

But back to my point, why my wife is a better person than I am. She’s a giver. She says I am too, but I treat stress differently than she does. If it were me and I kept feeling scared and like it was still happening again every day, she would see me through it. I, on the other hand, do something stupid: I start to get angry. Not at her, but at the fact that I can’t do anything to change the situation, or that I’m afraid to deal with the stress again, so I want to just act like it’s not happening.

God knows why she puts up with me sometimes.

Super Bowl XL

Being a computer gook at heart, I don’t normally give a rat poop about things like the Super Bowl. But, in the spirit if eating way too much kraut and dogs, I figured I should give it a shot. Here’s to sruving the food and staying away from the internet long enough to watch the game.

Another Redesign?

Maybe. After reinstalling all my crap on the thumbdrive, I decided to change the stylesheet in Sage. After tweaking the style from Jon Hicks, I think I like it’s minimalist way enough that I may make a redeisng using it.

Del.icio.us For Tags Fixed

It looks like the Del.icio.us for: tags and the /for stuff is working again. People tag things for me and they show up right away.

Now my only complaint is that I can’t delete something from my For page. Since those links are really copies of other peoples real links, they hang around until the other user deletes them. What a pain to have all that crap hanging around. Oh well.

Lies, Damns Lies, Statistics, and Tests

Well, all things considered 22 isn’t bad on this test.

Three Years Gone

Wow. I just realized that this blog is 3 years old as of this past October. Now, if I could just find a design I liked and posted a little more often…

Del.icio.us For Tags Broken

I do hereby declare that the for:user tags, and the /for/user pages on del.icio.us are completely useless and broken.

I caught the del.icio.us buzz late, just last month late. Better late than never though. One of the features that intrigued me was the for: tag…the ability to send bookmarks to other people, and the ability to view bookmarks sent to you by goind to /for/claco. Great. Sounds fun. Too bad it doesn’t work.

Two weeks ago, a friend sent me my first bookmark. When I went to my “for” page, it never showed up. After poking around, I finally noticed that it was in the private RSS feed, but not in the page. I sent an email to support, but didn’t get anywhere.

Now, two weeks later, I had 2 people send me 3 more bookmarks. As soon as they did, the first bookmark from two weeks ago showed up on the for page immedately. As of today, non of the new bookmarks have appeared on the for page, but they are all in the private RSS feed.

What the hell is going on there?

I’ve sent support another email, but I don’t have high hopes, and the online help for the “for” functionality is pretty slim.

Eating Your Own Dog Food: Part IV

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks tinkering on a photo gallery app for Catalyst. I like Flickr, but I don’t want to pay for it. I have a buttload of photos to get online, epse. wedding photos if you ask the wife.

So, now that I’ve hit critical mass, I’m eating my own dog foo, aka using my own software.

Comments Open Again

My blog is in a state of disrepair like usual, while I spend more time on Catalyst and Handel. I just realized that my hack to make the MT cgi path relative completely breaks TypeKey logins, which were required to place comments. Doh!

I’m opened comments up to anyone, although they’re still moderated.