Writing July 16, 2010
Posted by Sharny in : Ramble,Rants,Scraps , add a commentIt seems like every time I have the urge to write something, a blog post or whatever, there are always so many hurdles to overcome to actually get to the writing.
Today is the perfect example and indeed typical of what happens when I visit my blog. First I start by having an idea for some writing, or indeed just a strong urge to do some writing. So I fire up the blog and always the first thing I am met with is the news that wordpress has been updated. So, of course, I must update.
Now I’m very easily distracted, meaning that while an update in itself wouldn’t take that long, it takes a long time for me to actually complete the update. FTP clients take a little while to do all the deleting and uploading that comes with an update (unfortunately my webhost doesn’t let me update automatically due to the security settings) and by the time I’ve done that I’ve found myself pouring through my last.fm reccomendations, fishing out more stuff to listen to.
Once I get back to wordpress I find that every single plugin I use is also out of date and must all be manually updated. Again, this wouldn’t take so long if I didn’t figuratively look away whenever it does something any longer than 5 seconds. And so, the process stretches out longer and longer until finally the blog is ready to use again! Hooray! Now I can finally make that post I wanted to make.
Oh wait, no, I’ve forgotten what I wanted to write about. I guess I’ll just have to wait till I get another idea and go through this whole thing again…
Happenings no more May 6, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Blogs,Scraps , add a commentYes, I deleted the Happenings category. It was getting out of hand. None of the other categories could possibly compete with the great monolith that was happenings. As such, it’s gone. The fact is I rarely post about anything that isn’t a happening so really it’s just a bit redundant.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 April 2, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Blogs,Internets,Scraps,Technology , add a commentI was kinda worried about the whole upgrade process, it’s not something I’ve done before and I figured something like this had the potential to be quite nasty but it seems to have gone off alright. I guess those crazy wordpress creating cats are still proving themselves to be kings of the blogging software platform (if that’s what you wanna call it).
I’ve got to say, the new dashboard does look rather spiffy (I think I may have slightly stolen that phrase, but it rocks so what the heck) and I’ve also installed a couple of plugins just for kicks. I’m probably not going to go about customizing the page as much as I did in the past, keep things a bit more minimalistic.
I should probably start making some WoW related posts soon since I said that I would and some more random bits of music stuff. I currently don’t have any working headphones so I’m deprived of entertainment whilst walking to and from school, such musical deprivation is teh suck.
