Another Opinion Among Many

Four Guys.  2000 Miles.  How wild can it get?

Angela and I caught Wild Hogs this weekend. It was an entertaining watch. I’m finding that anything that Tim Allen stars in will be either be hilarious or “light weight” as far as content. This movie falls under the latter category.  We enjoyed it all the way through and Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William Macy did a good job of keeping us entertained (William Macy the most).

This movie’s plot basically follows a simple time line.   Travolta’s character has a life changing event and he has to reclaim his identity.  He convinces his buddies to go on a road trip with him on their bikes.  Since they are pretty stressed anyhow, they come with him.

This is the story of what happens as a result of their following of theoir friend.  They all learn a bit about themselves and they also gain a bit of insight into what’s over the horizon for them.

Sorry about the last few days “disappearing” from this site, but I found a better and more recent back up that was taken closer to the day of the big crasheroo and I don’t quite know how to merge the latest stuff into my current database. I’ll try to get it back without messing up the whole thing.

By the way, as you may or may not have noticed, I’ve bee displaying the Rootly widget in my side bar. Has anyone found this interesting or useful? Is it worth keeping? Does it load slowly? I was wondering about that, as I kind of like what they aggregate, but its not super important to me. If it takes away, I don’t want it.

So, in case it was noticed (or not), I have added back the last few posts by hand, along with the comments.  Rather than try to merge the databases, I did some “magic” and edited the timestamps on my copy/pasted stuff to be the same as it was when originally posted by everyone.  So now I can get back on subject, or whatever.

Its been quite topsy-turvy here at cooreythompson.com. I believe that everything should settle back to normal shortly. I’ve restored the site’s structure and permissions as they were about a month ago and have tried to upload the most recent database (including a few posts from the other host).

If you’re warped enough to want to read my writing on a regular basis and you’re still here, then thanks. I appreciate that you stuck around. A week of down time is a long time on the internet and I know that I wasn’t too fond of it, either.

I’ve still got a few things to fix up, but I think that I can get things back to normal. The photo gallery is not working at the moment and I may just scrap it and try again, maybe with a newer script. Who knows.

By the way, I’m still mucking with the latest Wordpress here, which at the moment, is still considered alpha software, although its been quite solid and the new features (mostly nice little “behind the scenes” and “under the hood” stuff) are quite nice.

I see that, for the most part, my site has propagated around the world to be pointing at Frihost’s server again. I don’t know how long this will last, as its quite burdened and this site doesn’t help much.

So, if you’ve noticed that some images are missing and that its not quite “the same”, it will be returned to normal over the next few days.

As my paid host says, “Thank you for your patience. I need a little more time.”

Bla bla bla…

Crawl away, ye search engines! coreythompson.com is back! It takes more than a shitty host with slow service to keep you down.

If anybody still has this site in your feed reader, or if you visit daily to see if I’m around, then here I am. Sorry for not being around for the past few days. I really wasn’t my choice. Really.

I’ve got some things to work on and restore but its coming along alright. Expect the site to be back where it was (but not where it was, likely) by the end of the week. Until then, if there are missing features, I apologize, as I thought that my paid host’s back ups were a normal archive file, but they won’t open for me. This database doesn’t have the most recent entries, either, but perhaps I’ll go to Google’s cache and copy/paste the content. I’ll splog my own blog!

Anyhow, I’ve got more to do before this is over.

I don’t know how many people who have an idea that they want to write about but just don’t want to put it in print until they’ve revised it a bit.  I do.  Right now, I have 8 drafts of articles waiting to be written (some are just titles and one line saying, “write about this with this emphasis, etc” or whatever.  They way drafts have been listed before is to have the title of the post/page sitting above the post to be written in the write panel of the admin.  There could be a whole list there cluttering things up if you had a lot of unfinished business.  I don’t know where this will go with further revisions or whether it will even stay in until 2.3 is out, but, for now, I’ve noticed in the current alpha of 2.3, that the list now stops after 3 on my write page with a reference link to 5 more.  If I click that link, it brings me to a “Drafts” page, which is a feature that’s been asked for a few times on the wp-testers and other lists and forums.  So now, if you have drafts to be published later, they get a seperate page like pages and posts do.  This makes it a bit easier to find these drafts in a nice list, layed out the same way as the rest of the editable data on one’s site.

I think that a lot of people will like this feature when its polished well enough to go into the final release.  Heads up!

Since I uploaded all the files before writing this post, you should now be looking at a new theme on this site. I really liked the concept of the last theme, but I really missed some of the things that can go in the sidebar. Three columns were too much, though. So, as a compromise, I’ve selected an excellent victim to hack apart - Evanescence by Srini G. I also snagged the nav menu code from the Fluid Blue theme by the same author. Obviously, I’ve made changes to the color scheme and replaced the header images. There’s a tweak or two elsewhere, as well (like the comment #s) and there will be a few more as I get things organized. I sure hope that you like it. I do. And, if anyone out there has IE7 to test it on, could you let me know if anything breaks. So far, I’ve tested this theme in Firefox 2.0.0.4 for Linux and Windows, Opera 9.20 and 9.22 for Windows, and 9.22 for Linux, Konqueror, IE 6 on Windows, IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 on Linux under Wine (few images work on those, as they’re all .pngs but who’d browse the net on IE under Linux???). A big plus to this theme is that it works with widgets, so if there’s a block that I like sometime down the road, I can install it and shove it in the sidebar. We’ll see how it goes (yes, it IS 3:19am and I should get to sleep…).

Turns out that Alexa finally got around to updating the thumbnail image on its profile page for my site to the previous theme. That was a long 48 hours!