I finally got around to adding a new theme to the layout, which you have probably noticed as I have set it to the default theme. I really like it, not to sure why. Maybe just because it is dark and I tend to like dark things (the background on my desktop is solid black). I think it is easier on my eyes, and that produces less strain for me, which is a good thing. But if you don’t like it you can always pick a different one from the list on the right, although you will have to do that each time you view the blog. There is still a theme I have in mind to make, ok it is really just a modification of the other themes, and hopefully I will get around to doing it someday.
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WordPress 2.0.2
I finally got around to upgrading to the new version of WordPress. I mainly did it for the security patches that were integrated into the new version, but I must admit that the new default plugins are nice. The integration of Akismet seems to be working out very nice, and the automatic backup feature is a plus.
It was broke, now it is not
Well I am not really sure what happened but some time on Sunday night / Monday morning the site went down. All pages requiring PHP were not being rendered. I got that fixed relatively quickly by adding -D PHP4 to the /etc/conf.d/apache2 APACHE2_OPTS= flag. So that was nice. But then the blog itself would not work, more precisely there was no connection with the database. It took me a while to figure this issue out but I eventually figured out that it was a log discrepancy issue. Once I removed some logs from /var/lib/mysql the database was able to be initialized and a connection made. Now MySQL is staying up and all is well. I have to admit I have gotten a lot better at figure this stuff out and getting things back up and running. 🙂
Gallery Update(s)
So the other day I decided to upgrade Gallery, the photo gallery software the site uses. I upgraded to the 2.0.2 version, but after getting it fully functioning I decided that I did not like it. So what ended up happening is that I downgraded to version 1.5.2, which is still an upgrade as I was running version 1.5. So there was a small upgrade and everything is back to functioning as it should.
Hunting pictures
That’s right, I finally got some. They can be found in the Trips album under the Hunting Trips sub album. I hope to add pictures to this after ever successful hunting trip, and I hope that is everyone that I go on.
Fair warning, the sub albums of the Hunting album may contain graphic images (i.e. animals being processed into food) and if you are against such things (you damned hippies) then don’t look! Otherwise, have a look and share in my hunting trip goodness.
Pictures
I just finished putting up the pictures for the past month, the only picture that is missing is the Picture of Kylie with Santa, as soon as I scan that I will add it into her gallery in the proper place.
More pictures
I just finished putting up more pictures of Kylie, which can of course be seen in her gallery. I think this now has me caught up on her pictures, well at least until around the 20th when the next month pictures should hopefully be ready to go up. I am going to try and be more diligent about getting images off of the digital and put up so that I don’t get that far behind again, but sometime there isn’t enough time. Oh well, I will do my best.
Pictures of Kylie
Well I finally got around to adding more pictures to Kylie’s gallery, not all like I had hoped, but at least another entire month. I have a few more pictures to scan and then i will be able to post up another months worth. Hopefully I wont get this far behind again, but you would be surprised at how fast the pictures pile up. That and it takes a good amount of time to pull them off the digital and do any sort of touch ups and then rename them all, and if I have a ton to scan forget about it. Oh, I also added a few more to some of the older galleries of her as well, so check the changed date within month 2 and 3 to see what weeks got new photos added. These older albums got new photos because I just got some photos from other people and got them scanned. More pictures to come!
PHP and other stuff
Over the last few days I had an issue with PHP pages not being processed properly by the server. As such, things like this blog, were not loading properly, actually they weren’t loading at all. In fact nothing that required the use of PHP worked, obviously that has been fixed. Chris was nice enough to take a look at it for me and point out my mistake. Now I understand something better than I did before and hopefully the next time it will not take me this long to fix the problem. Thanks Chris.
In other news, the site now resides on its very own hard drive. As such i should not need to worry about running out of space do to the gallery and all its images taking up space. Once again, thanks Chris for helping to get that set up.
Down time…
The site is back up and running as it should be. Apparently there were some disc issues that needed to be resolved. What? You didn’t even know the site was down? Well it was, thanks for noticing! Heh. It was down for about two days before I was able to get enough spare time together and repair it. Was actually a pretty fast repair and I didn’t even need to contact my (not so) local help support (read: Chris). So that was nice. Anyway, everything is all good now.