Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Remember the old KeriBlog with a constantly rotating header, this one?
I miss it. I miss making them. Took a photo today and was all, oh I’ll make this into a… no, I don’t have that anymore. That’s how this post came to be.
Replace the wood grain up there with these? Hmmm.
Inside a Masonic Lodge come ON.
I’ve been making a ton of Sidebar Art lately. Go to BloggingAboutFood.com to see.
I’ll post them all together when I’m done. You can learn a lot about me from my sidebars.
Plain, simple, white & blue KeriBlog… 2010 – 2012… RIP
I like my plain everything, it’s how I think websites should look like: blue links, obvious navigation, brain-dead layout, not trying to re-invent the wheel, content highlighted above all else, plus I’m obsessed with load time. I’m so 1998.
But it’s time. Now to give KeriBlog the proper packaging it deserves.
Then repeat the process 10 more times.
I have 12 in total.
KeriNetwork!
Choosing a new theme is a really big deal. What if stuff breaks when you install it? Are you sure the people building it will update it? Because if not, or if they go out of business, you now have a big blog security problem.
Below is an email I wrote to my friend who’s helping me with the install.
It’s the thought process behind it all.
(new theme is by ThemeFuse)
If you need a sysadmin… or anything done in: C/C++, Python, Matlab/Symulink, html/php/css/javascript, then shell scripting like bash… or Matlab (!)… you want @NodeZero_Linux
Please don’t insult him by asking for anything free, and besides, his rates are already too low if you ask me ;)
Thanks buddy XO
The design started in my head Spring 2010.
It started out like this:
Then I went on a couple URL buying sprees (click here and here).
The core and guts were built over a long weekend, and while it looks simple, it was not. I changed hosting providers at the same time, too. There was a lot happening, and this was a few weeks into having just moved, and living out of my trunk.
Various stages of development.
Before being ported over to KeriBlog.com, the new site was built under this URL, HAHA:
The Canadian Explorer was migrated over and converted from SquareSpace to WordPress, something I always wanted but didn’t think I’d ever get… for those of you not living full time in nerd world, that is a really big deal. Thanks Vito! If you’re lucky, he’ll help you too.
It’s the most beautful thing I’ve practically ever seen, do you even know HOW long I’ve been looking at this in my head.
So I documented its creation.
It’s really coming along, click to see :) —–> KeriBlog.com
Go ahead and laugh, I would.
Here’s the posture post I’m talking about, and here’s my favourite way to sit and concentrate, hand-over-mouth.
Casie helped re-create the scene of the incident:
Last time this happened, last summer, my back fixed itself… I was over at Casie’s, being lippy with a lot of gestures and over-dramatics, and it popped itself back into place. I’m hoping that’s what happens again.
I’d pledge here some giant exercise plan but meh, let’s be realistic. I did go to the physio this morning though, I’m on it.
I meant what I said above, about being slowed down being good for me… I tweeted that yesterday, actually I crushed yesterday YA buddy.
Also I did my best self-manicure ever… because I couldn’t move around and ruin them.
Let’s look back to happier, bouncier times, please think of me like this internet, send healing thoughts hahasigh.
There are 3 things to know:
1 – Bloggers have good work ethics and problem-solving brains
2 – They spend a lot of time alone; it’s a solitary endeavour, blogging
3 – It’s the invisible in-between stuff that is most frustrating
If ever you see two people finding out the other also blogs, and they exchange a sort of nod, this is what they’re nodding about.
What’s the invisible in-between stuff?
Kay, let’s post a slideshow. I need one for my new professional photos, thanks Suzy.
First, I need some software to make one. Start researching what works best with WordPress.
Looks like, of all the internet, there’s two real contenders. So choose one, download then upload the plugin, learn it, insert the code.
You might break your own site:
Back and forth between the help file, Google searches and the software. We’re over an hour by now.
Now the photos are too giant and need resizing.
They won’t open in your budget Photoshop version, so find a workaround, which no way will support batch-editing that would be ‘catching a break’, so one by one here we go…
By now you’ll likely look and feel like this.
Oh what? YouTube has stopped working?
Set the slideshow aside, this needs to be fixed right now… (go ‘Get Info’ on Safari in your Finder and choose 32-bit, restart Safari).
Back to the slideshow… check test refresh…. check test refresh….. check test refresh….
All to post photos and talk about …. yourself.
This is what’s behind the blogs you visit, so now you have a better idea of what it takes to post whatever it is you’re looking at.
The end.
PS – don’t forget… that’s great your post is done and looking good, but if no one sees it, what’s the point? And and aaaaannnndddd………
PPS – I lost the edited draft of this post and had to write it twice. Oh irony.
