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Updates and Housekeeping

David — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:39:12 +0000

Status on moving flyinggalindo.com to galindo.me

Around the end of January, I decided to move flyinggalindo.com to a new hosting account and set it up on a new domain name, galindo.me. I reinstalled WordPress and restored my posts. Most of the move went off without a hitch, but file references to images on several older posts were broken. I’m in the process of fixing those issues. While going through those posts, I’m also finding some links to external sites that also need updating. I’m going through an audit of those as well. I should have the major posts cleaned up by the end of the week. Thanks for your patience.

Accepting Apologies

David — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:29:41 +0000

When someone has said something uncalled for and hurt your feelings, if they do apologize, it’s OK to let them apologize with grace and humility, and to accept the apology with grace.

Granted, the apology is probably bullshit.

Know when to break the rules.

David — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:00:16 +0000

This is something that’s been bouncing around inside my head lately:

Know the standards.
Know when to follow the rules.
Know when to think outside of the box.
Know when to break the rules.

Sometimes it’s tough to know when. Sometimes you just need to go for it.

Image courtesy of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_originals/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and Options Theme 1.1.1

David — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:11:50 +0000

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 Complete

In my opinion, WordPress is simply one of the best open-source applications available. It became my blogging platform almost a year ago when I converted from Blogger, which was easy to use, but didn’t offer the control I was looking for. As a now-confessed WordPress-junkie, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of version 2.5. The wait is over.

The upgrade from my previous version of WordPress (2.3.1) was a three-step process. It’s been about 60 days since I last updated versions so I had to install the intermediate updates, 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 first. After that I was able to install WordPress’s current AWESOME version of 2.5. In the short time I’ve been using it I’ll just say it’s pretty cool.

Upgrade to Options Theme 1.1.1 Complete

After the WordPress upgrade, I installed the update from Justin Tadlock’s beta Options Theme to Options Theme 1.1.1. I could have installed that a couple of weeks ago, but I decided on waiting until after my WP 2.5 upgrade. I ran into one hiccup where I kind of broke my blog. Fortunately, I made a backup of the directory that was corrupted so it was a matter of just deleting the directory, FTP’ing the backup and starting over.

I’m going to continue to make some tweaks over the next few days to clean the look of my blog up. Overall, I really like how the upgrades function.

A post a day.

David — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:13:25 +0000

It’s April 1st. For some it’s April Fool’s Day. For me, it reminds me that my birthday is coming soon. Birthdays seem to come and go more quickly than ever. With recent events, it seems that time in general seems to fly by more quickly than ever. So fast that I barely have time to think “where did the time go?”. So this month, leading up to my birthday, I’m working on a post a day as a way to slow down and capture time. It could be a single sentence or an entire page. Who knows. Will I do it? I suppose we’ll see.

In the meantime, Happy April 1st.

This new template has potential.

David — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:35:36 +0000

I’m feeling a little better about this template I’m experimenting with. It’s the “Options WordPress Theme” by Justin Tadlock. It’s still in Beta but I’m liking the ability to easily customize things with his well thought out “Options Theme Settings” tab that’s available once you enable the theme in WordPress.