Jun/092
Daily… A critter and the regret I feel from upgrading WordPress
I upgraded to WordPress 2.8 and I wish I hadn’t, I immediately found a couple bugs that hamper my daily workflow. The first being that the “Upload/Insert” buttons above a post don’t work, I have to separately go to the media section to upload images. Not as big of a deal, and perhaps this is just a setting now, but WP doesn’t auto save my post. So if I crash whilst typing out a post and I didn’t think to save a draft, I’ve lost it all. I really didn’t expect it to feel like a step backwards, it’s frustrating.
On a completely other note, here’s a guy that could perhaps be related to a Mon Calamari. Or not, who knows!
Nov/080
A chance to breathe
Today is a me day. I’m cooking good foods rather than eating out and working on personal projects. I’m painting the sketch from my last post and I’m planning on doing some new drawings. I’m listening to the new Sigur Ros album, I’m digging it. They are selling their album for download off their site, awesome!
Today and tomorrow are the first two days off in a row I’ve had in…well, a few months. I’m going to take the opportunity to watch some movies tonight, it’s probably the only time I’ll have to do so until the end of December when school gets out. I plan to watch the Dark Knight and perhaps some anime. I’d like to watch Honey and Clover or Haibane Renmei as well, but my housemates are going to be out this evening, so maybe not. Maybe some Ghost in the Shell though, I’d like to finish watching Second Gig!
Speaking of gigs. On top of school and work an old client of mine recently asked if I wanted to do some product renderings for a design he has. I’ll post some shots of that as I go along. It’ll be fun to do some 3d modeling again.
Come winter break, I think I might tackle a new theme for my blog. I’d like to change it up some, though I don’t have any specific ideas yet.
Nov/071
Extreme Gallery-fication
I’ve had mixed feelings about the gallery software I’ve been using on this site. It has some nice features, but it’s rather bloated and runs kinda slow. Maiki has a basic install of it that seems to run better, but I’m still not convinced. Part of that comes from needing to use the wpg2 plugin to integrate gallery into WordPress.
I recently came across a different gallery option for WordPress entitled nextGEN Gallery. I’ve been testing it out and so far I really like the results. The only thing it doesn’t do for me is video files (for my animations), but otherwise I think it’ll do the job.
My test galleries:
Color Photography
B&W Photography
Nov/072
Coming Together
Lots going on, finally getting back to my site. I’ve quite a few updates coming in the next week, but at the moment I’m just trying to get the site working.
Currently searching for a theme to use. I like the previous one, but it’s old and needs updating to be fully functional with newer versions of WordPress. I like the theme Unsleepable 2.0, but the code is really heavy, I have a hard time getting behind that.