So, I’ve been all over the computer this weekend. I downloaded the ISO image of the Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO edition to play with. I’ll be doing a review of it later, after I get to try it out a bit. This is the first time that I installed Vector after two others, so its was a good test of a new situation for me. There was a bump or two but, otherwise, it went well. Wait until you see the screen shots. I had to modify the configuration file for the bootloader to boot the other operating systems, which is a bit disappointing, but I anticipated that. It was yet another distro that didn’t recognize my Envision monitor properly (none of them do) but at least there was a message after configuration that stated I may have to adjust things. That was nice.
I’ve also put in a few refinements to the new theme. I hope that you like them. Notice that my middle section (former sidebar) has a slightly different layout. I’ve slid the blogroll (the entire one this time) to the bottom of the section and replaced the side column with tags, so that finding things by subject is easier. That has actually led me to think about another caveat of using the Wordpress loop this way, that I will have to resolve. It involves the use of the if is_whatever() and else conditional tags.
You may also notice that the Links page is fleshed out a bit and seems a bit more complete. I’ve tried to add descriptions to all the sites that I have linked to. I had a bit of an issue with my database a while back and lost all my categories for the photo album, so I’ve been working on getting that back in order again as well. Bear with me on that one.
And, to thicken the plot, I’m also doing this on one of the latest nightly builds of Wordpress 2.3 (still alpha), which seems to be working alright, except for one small thing that I have to test some more. I haven’t seen any new tag functionality over UTW, but there are some other neat things that I like. By the way, did anybody who upgraded to 2.2 notice that plugins that cause problems will be automatically deactivated instead of borking your whole site until you FTP in and remove or rename the offender. Its getting better. There’s been talk about an upgrader. We’ll see how that goes.
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