I fought the lawn… and the lawn won
‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.’ — the heater repairman, after I shorted out the house heater transformer whilst trying to replace the thermostat.
Lorelle’s got some great WordPress resources on her site. How did I miss these when I was starting out? They would’ve made life much simpler.
Stuff like her “WordPress Resources List” and her “My Daily Tasks With WordPress” article are extremely helpful.
Now I’ve got my iBook back, I thought I’d update to WordPress 1.5.1.
There are plenty of grouchy requests for bug-fixing on 1.5.1 in the WordPress forum, but Lorelle’s impassioned request for us all to get along almost convinced me to go ahead and update.
Then I dropped in to see what MacManX thinks about it… and now I believe I’ll wait.
Normally the DHL guy won’t leave anything without me signing for it, yet today he dropped off a big box without so much as a knock on the door.
There it was on the porch: the cardboard shell containing my baby—one day sooner than I expected it—back from its stay at the Apple Institute for Fried Logic Boards.
With trembling fingers I ripped open the box, kissed my iBook all over, told it how much I missed it and kissed it some more. It’s a little grubby but it’s nothing a little Klear Screen can’t handle. When I pressed the power button, it started right up. I downloaded all my e-mail and when I heard the familiar glass “ting” a tear came to my eye.
Everything’s all better now.
My Mac Plus lasted almost a dozen years. I got my garage sale beige minitower G3/233 five years ago and it’s still going strong. But my brand-new G3 iBook/900 has fried three logic boards in fourteen months.
Woz forgive me, but Apple tastes a little sour lately. Continue reading “Lemon Apple”
Got a lot done yesterday at the expense of the laundry, which now consists of two piles: the clean and unsorted towering on top of my dining room table, and the dirty, stinky boy stuff perfuming the laundry room. Continue reading “Laundry? Or WordPress? Hmmmm…”
I kept flipping back and forth between this theme (Dixiebelle) and my mangled blend of Neuro’s 3-column theme Devenir en Gris and Robin Hastings LetterHead.
(As far as I can figure, Devenir en Gris is French for “we Gauls like our three-column blogs dark and grey.” Not that I’ve run it through the Google translation box or anything, so don’t quote me.) Continue reading “WordPress To Do List”
Installed two new plugins today: Ryan’s WordPress Contact Form and IO Error’s Bad Behavior Plugin. Continue reading “Too Much Fun: Two New Plugins”
It was a bumpy switch from web host to web host in order to get my permalinks working, but with help from several sources I learned all about the miracles of propagation. (And no, Mom, propagation is not what you think it is.) Continue reading “Podz to the Rescue”
Most Geek Wannabes know exactly what to do when we can’t solve a problem on our own: run to the Real Geeks for help. Continue reading “Thanks to Jennifer & Kato”
Decisions, decisions. Introducing my latest obsession: WordPress Blogging Software. Continue reading “Moving into WordPress”