Enemy of Entropy

Oh. That Would Do It! (That Problem With Posting to LJ)

8 March 2010, 11:31 pm. No Comments. Filed under Blogging.

I’ve tried all the dif­fer­ent plu­g­ins that claim to work with Word­Press for cross-​​posting to Live­Jour­nal, but recently I’ve got­ten errors from every­thing. I’ve asked for help from the authors in their forums and noth­ing seemed to be hap­pen­ing. And then I saw this: Banned Because of Live+Press’ Bad Behav­ior. That’s from the cur­rent main­tainer of Live+Press, the plu­gin I’ve had the best luck with over­all. Read on…

Cur­rent Mood: (exhausted) exhausted
Cur­rent Music: Break­ing Bad in the background

Grrr

15 July 2008, 10:14 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Blogging.

The lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press is out, so I upgraded this blog right away, as I usu­ally do. Of course, the plu­gin I use most, Now Read­ing, choked and won’t work any more.

Le sigh.

The prob­lems with the pre­vi­ous “new” WP ver­sion were never truly resolved, and now the author’s forum isn’t work­ing, either. I fig­ure he has an actual pay­ing job, so I can’t fuss too much. But I’m still disappointed.

Singing the Joys of WordPress

22 June 2008, 1:55 am. 3 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Education, Geekery, Health.

I have to say, I do love the fact that Word­Press allows me to write posts and sched­ule them to post them­selves to cover days when I don’t feel up to blog­ging. I’ve been hav­ing a lot of trou­ble view­ing the mon­i­tor lately – my eyes feel like they’re danc­ing and noth­ing stays in focus, lead­ing to migraines very quickly. That is not a good thing when I’m in the last week of classes for the semes­ter!
Read on…

Graphics. Gah!

4 May 2008, 10:36 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Art, Geekery, Needlework.

There are times when being graphic-​​impaired really does annoy me.

I’m finally mov­ing for­ward with port­ing the Heart­song Hand­i­crafts site to Word­Press. It shouldn’t be a big deal. I’ve done the same many times before with other sites.

Unfor­tu­nately, I don’t have a logo. I mean, I have a sim­ple logo, but it isn’t very good. It doesn’t sing, that’s for sure. I just want a nice, sim­ple logo that isn’t ter­ri­bly busy, but that doesn’t look (like the first attempt) as if I made it from clip-​​art and stan­dard fonts. My utter and com­plete lack of draw­ing abil­ity is a seri­ous hand­i­cap in this endeavor.

I did sorta cus­tomize a WP theme to match the crappy logo, but that part is easy. The harder part is hav­ing some­thing to give the site visual inter­est, and that doesn’t exist right now.

On the other hand, the cross-​​stitch pat­terns them­selves involve graph­ics, so I don’t want things to get too busy. It’s a bal­anc­ing act.

I may have to throw myself on Katie’s mercy, or some­thing. She’s pretty busy, though, and prefers to draw what­ever she feels like draw­ing rather than cre­at­ing some­thing to suit a par­tic­u­lar theme.

Where are my Gravatars?

28 April 2008, 11:29 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Geekery.

I obe­di­ently updated to Word­Press 2.5.1, and lost my Gra­vatars. I’ve checked the set­tings, and they’re still enabled. They’re def­i­nitely still in my tem­plates, but nobody gets any­thing but the default “no gra­vatar” pic­ture. Buh?

 

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