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Mas Tequila

One and a half bottles of Patrone gone, one and a half to go.

Ryan is passed out and missing at this point.

Lightweight.

Site Updates

So I’m sitting here at the in-laws, have a while till I leave.

So I fixed all the imported blog entries from my old blog. All of the categories are now correct.

Still not sure why the old blog entries that had hyperlinks in them only show up when you click the whole entry instead of the front page, but I’m not going to worry about it. If people are going back a year and a half to read my blog entries, they’ll figure it out.

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Off to Partay

In Milwaukee, leaving in a few hours.

Think I’ll stop at Kopps for lunch and have one of the greasiest burgers money can buy. Reminds me of when I first started working for Best Buy and ate at the Kopps across the street from the Southridge store. And don’t get me started on the custard…

Camera is ready, Flickr is purchased, digital imaging software is installed on my gaming PC (what blasphemy – productivity software installed on my gaming PC, and it’s M$ software at that).

Should be fun.

Upgrade Complete

What started as a small project finished 2+ hours later with great results.

Started with getting the domain (MovieTuesday.com setup and hosted on silwenae.com.

That has had me thinking about the engine required to power it, and WordPress has a small security update out. Installed that here on the blog, and then installed the Kubrick template as the style I was using wasn’t doing that much for me. I dig Kubrick, it even comes with the Photoshop files to add the header picture, we’ll have to see if the Gimp can open those. If not, the readme has the file dimesnions, but I’m not much of an artist anyway. I would like to get links along the bottom of the header picture like the author used.

We (Kelly had to help me) spent a half hour trying to update my links in the sidebar, had to flesh out some PHP errors, but in the end it’s working, which gives me hope for the other things I want to add (Random photo’s, wishlist, desktop screenshot, now reading and listening, list goes on…).

And last but definitely not least, I’ve strugged over the last month with my former blog running B2evolution to get the XML / RSS output to be XML compliant so WordPress would import all my old posts.

Upgrading my old blog installation to the latest and greatest of B2Evo always resulted in database errors. I must have gone through that half a dozen times the last time I tried a month ago, and the kicker was whatever error the database schema encountered, I wasn’t able to delete the database when done. Tried again tonight, no luck. Being the smart feller I am, I installed the second latest verions of B2Evo, upgraded, and what do you know, the import took! It only took the last 5 entries I had done last November, spent 5 to 10 minutes figuring out how to get all posts to show, imported again and the magic box worked.

I’m guessing there were about 70 posts from the old blog from Jan ’03 to Nov ’03. I’ll need to go back through them over time and assign them categories, they’re all in the General category at the moment. The other odd thing is the links don’t look like they worked when scanning the posts (pick a month) – but if you actually click a post for the details, the links did work. So if I’m really motivated, I can fix those too through the edit portion.

I’m just happy it’s finally imported! Even if I had a huge break between posting, I have my evil company posts, my rants on radio (with the Rev105 tribute). EFF support way back when, and some early looks at Howard Dean.

In other site news, I registered for a Flickr account. I may try using that to photo blog the gaming party this weekend in Chicago. I’m uploading the Jan ’03 LAN Party pictures as we speak to try it out.

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Back from Orlando

Back from sunny Orlando.

Sunny and 85, with a few clouds on Fri. and Sat. Not that I’m complaining, though flying back today, the Twin Cities weather is nicer than it was there, but at least the storm we left in Orlando didn’t have a name.

Not sure how I survived 4+ days without internet access, lots of work and lots of play got me through.

Off to Chicago this week for the BFG lan party, I may try to blog it live. It will depend on the setup there, and transferring photo’s from my camera to the PC to the website, we shall see, it might be kind of cool to try. Long as I don’t pass out again.

Packers better win tonight. That is all.