by Matt | Jun 16, 2007 | Aggravation, Web
Apparently, even with an upgrade for K2 and a plugin problem workaround, it’s still horribly mangled. Since the developers of K2 have moved on to other things, so shall I. I guess this kinda forces my hand at yet another redesign. Something a bit more compatible with the new WP widget system. We’ll see what I can come up with on Monday. Until then, enjoy this rather lack-luster theme.
UPDATE: Yup, you guessed it. Still broken. It seems like none of my themes, plugins, archives, etc even remotely like WP2.2. Awesome. I didn’t end up coming up with anything that would work as a theme, especially one that would be compatible with the new widget system, which seems to be 99% of the problem with this release. I’ll have to work on it more over the next week or so. Chip also gave me a heads up that the theme I was using temporarily wasn’t able to submit comments, so, now we’re back to the rather pathetic default theme for the moment. It seems to be the only one anything will work with.
by Matt | Jun 15, 2007 | Aggravation
It’s one of those days.
Apparently, upgrading to WP 2.2 breaks the K2 theme and all of it’s goodness. Nice.
by Matt | Jun 14, 2007 | Web
Don’t answer that.
My problem is that I read sites like StyleBoost, CSS Mania and Light-On-Dark way too much. As someone who doesn’t so much “design websites” as “tinkers in Photoshop”, it’s really hard to see all the great styles and ideas out there and then try and design a site of my own. I see stuff like Nagle’s “Roots and Shoots” and other vector and nature based designs and I think “that’s kinda cool, I’d like to design something like that”. Then I open Illustrator, play around for an hour, make a “root” and go to bed. The next day I see something dark and glossy and I think I’d like to do that. Then something kinda retro and collage/vintage/distressed looking. Then something really minimal and techy. It’s a never ending cycle.
While I appreciate the inspiration, I’m never getting anything done. I constantly see something else cool that I’d like to try and do. Then I abandon whatever design I had and start over. Do you know how many unfinished (read: barely started) website designs and PSD files I have in my “ideas for websites” folder? 67. How many of those actually became a website at some point? 2.
Alas. That’s the great thing about the internet. There’s anyways something new to look at. Some day I’m going to stop designing pages in Photoshop and just start creating WordPress templates that I can change with my mood. That way I can change my site daily and never be unhappy with it.
by Matt | Jun 11, 2007 | Culture, Personal
Today we’re going to try something a little different. Today is the first installment of a little How-To series I’m going to call “Cooking for Geeks”. The common misconception about geeks, like myself, is that they’re not “manly men” and certainly not fit to man a grill at your next barbecue. This couldn’t be further from the truth. While I don’t do much “baking” around our house, I’m certainly no stranger to cooking. Actually, it’s one of my favorite hobbies. I’ve become a cooking junkie, even entertaining the idea of entering something like “Food Networks Next Big Star”. Out of all the things I cook, it’s what I grill that I’m most proud of. I’ve memorized cooking time tables for all the grilling basics. Knowing exactly how long to grill something, what temperature to do it at, how many times to flip it, etc, are all skills us geeks can excel at.
The dish I’m most proud of are my baby-back ribs, Texas style, and that’s what we’re going to be cooking today.
Photos, directions and conversation after the jump…
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by Matt | Jun 5, 2007 | Personal
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t posted in a while, I can rest the blame squarely on work. Two weeks ago we were shooting the Texan cheerleaders. Last week, marathon retouching of said photos. This week, more cheerleaders. As I’m typing this, I’m sitting on the 9th floor terrace of a hotel, waiting for the sun to go down so we can try for a sunset shot. Judging by the cloud cover, I’m thinking its not going to happen. That’s ok, we have a backup plan.
Today has been especially crazy, mostly because I’ve been awake since 3am. We had to be ready to shoot at 5:30 and it was a long drive to our “undisclosed location”. I love industry terms, lol.
Anyway, back to work for me. I’ve got 4 or so more hours to go, then a repeat tomorrow.
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