Added Lightbox2 for Galleries
So with the upgrade to WordPress 2.5 I thought I’d look into the plugins I was using and see if there was anything better. And what do you know someone made a Picasa XML Gallery plugin that uses Lightbox2. It is great.
Holy Crap! WordPress 2.5
So I downloaded and installed to WordPress 2.5 and I am REALLY impressed. This is freaking awesome. Talk about improvements. Great job WordPress Team!!
Upgraded to WordPress 2.3 Beta
So I took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.3 Beta and everything seems to be working pretty damn well. Opera 9.5 Alpha crashed when clicking on Write Post for the first time, but is working now. I really didn’t even look into the changes for 2.3, but I’ll have some time to fool with it later.
Busted Thumb!!
So over the weekend I was moving the television and one of my Polk speakers fell right on my thumb. I haven’t had pain like that in ages. It hurt so bad I forgot to swear. So I put some ice on it and thought everything would be fine, but I woke up this morning with my thumb hard as a rock and the nail totally black. I decided to go to the doctor, and after various appointments and x-rays they think I broke the tip, meaning they can’t puncture the nail to release the blood. So I am now in a thumb splint, and it hurts like crazy. Check out the photo of the splint.
Free Download Manager Rules
So I do a lot of downloading and there is nothing worse then downloading something at slow speeds and losing a connection and having to resume from scratch. I have used all types of download managers and none have been better then Free Download Manager. It just does what it says and for free. How can you beat free? Well I guess they could pay you, but that isn’t going to happen. So if you need to download something, perhaps one of my videos, you should use FDM.
Niko & Scout Sleeping
So we recently got a puppy who we named Scout and we were a little worried that our cat Niko wouldn’t get a long with him since Niko has really never been around animals since we have had her. Well we brought home Scout and they became best of friends, most like brother and sister. Scout runs around chasing Niko, and Niko will tackle Scout. They even ended up sleep next to each other hours later. Here are some photos.
I’m so happy that they get along! I do have to say the first night having Scout home was rough. Lots of whining when we put him in his crate for the night. He just wouldn’t shut up. I think I got three or four hours of sleep. He seems to be doing a lot better tonight, hopefully it stays that way the rest of the night.
MacMini are sweet
So my good friend Keith is letting me borrow his MacMini for a bit and it is pretty awesome. So tiny and quiet, it is really impressive what Apple was able to pack into this machine. Apryl and I had to go out and buy a new monitor to use with the machine and picked up an Acer 19″ widescreen monitor at Compusa for $206. It was on clearance, and looking online it doesn’t appear to be a bad deal.
GDC Blog over on Live Spaces
My web host is dying on speed, so I am moving my GDC blogging over to a free Windows Live Blog account. Speed is pretty damn wicked, so I should be able to make fast updates if the wifi speed is good at the convention center. Check it out @ http://shinyidol.spaces.live.com/
Slow Servers…
So I have noticed for the last month or so that my host server has just been getting slower and slower. I am going to start investigating about getting a new host. I have never really been that happy with Globat, and there are a lot of great deals out there right now for host providers. Does anyone have any suggestions?