My Good Deed
Tuesday 30 May 2006
Wow. I’m now unofficial WordPress tech support.
Someone came out with a program called Canvas which allows a lot of customization of WordPress blogs without any actual hand-coding. Basically, each section (.div) is represented as a block that can moved around in an AJAX interface. It’s a good concept but the design is intimidating and the documentation is sorely lacking. I tried it out, but, because there is only one theme available, have set Canvas aside for now. Maybe when there are more themes from which to choose, I’ll take a second look.
Someone posted the release on Digg and everyone was sort of wading through the installation and use at the same time. Installation is quick and painless relatively easy but tedious because of the size of the install. Additionally, the beta bugs still need to be worked out. I was getting a conflict with last.fm, but, since I don’t use my last.fm plug-in right now, I was more than willing to shut down the last.fm plug-in so that I could use Canvas. Like a good samaritan, I posted my little walkthrough on Digg and left my email addy for anyone who needed a little help.
Lo and behold, tonight, a blogger who is in the same boat I was three months ago took me up on my offer and, through GMail, I was able to walk him through step by step. He said he’s using his host-providers java FTP client. Personally, I prefer IE for FTP for the sheer simplicity of it. It’s about the only thing IE is good for. Anyway, he seems to be up and running. All’s well that ends well. It’s always nice to help out a fellow blogger. Thank you Jonathan for letting me be of assistance.
Tuesday 30 May 2006 at 9:13 pm
I appreciate the help!!
Always can count on the blogging community!!
Wednesday 31 May 2006 at 1:58 pm
the only good blogger is one that blogs without pants while consuming an ice cold pbr (and even then, the important facet of this is the pbr, not the blog or action of blogging).
if they try and take your blog away from you, if the have a bigger gun, let them. it’s only a blog and you can make more. but wait, they try and take your pbr? to quote some reasonably famous line; “when the pry my cold dead fingers from around the can.”, suitable modified, of course, for the subject matter.
Wednesday 31 May 2006 at 4:16 pm
I love coming back from court to see drunken (I hope) ramblings awaiting moderation. Well, because “moderation” is not part of Mr. Morning’s vocabulary, I let those rambling on in.
Addressing the merits of the ramblings, I would not consume an ice-cold PBR sans pantalons, as it were. Why? Sanitary reasons? Hell no. Safety, mi amigo, safety.
I’m the kind of drinker that likes to rest his PBR in his lap on occassion in between long swigs. Without the necessary layers of cloth between me and the frigid and flimsy aluminum…
Let’s just say there would be a frozen Puddin’ Pop.
On that note, my in-home drinking this weekend has been McSorley’s Ale in bottle form. $6.99 a six-pack at the Key Food. Goes well with BBQ.
Wednesday 31 May 2006 at 9:10 pm
drunken? not even, although i am enjoying a nice digestif (jameson’s neat).
i’m sure they make some form of ‘thigh cozy’ or other protective garment expressly for the purpose of insulating the groin/inner thigh region just for such occasions as you described above.
i’m waiting for the bbq invite. slow cooked baby back ribs sounds quite tasty. coupled with an icey cold pbr, and life is swell.
and no, i did not say swill. but yet, still, no, not swill.