Reading. Running. Knitting.

So I changed from Lucida Grande to this, which is Helvetica… I was getting annoyed with the fact that the word “clip” looked like “dip”.

Edit: or maybe it was Verdana. It’s hard to tell.

So, because I have ALL the time in the world, I decided that today, while waiting for Dave to pick me up for the evening, I would update the backend of this here blog. So, after figuring how to get into the server to back up the data base, and how to find and save my hidden .htaccess file, I did that scary upgrade.

OK, so it wasn’t THAT scary. Mostly because my hosting service has one click updating for this kind of thing. But still, I was going from 1.5 to 2.3, which is very large jump in my mind. And all was good. I looked at my site, it was happy, and I looked at my old posts, and they were there, and then I decided to start looking at how the other themes that are available for WordPress look. And I didn’t much like them, so I changed it back to my theme, which is a modified Classic. I looked at my site and…

SHIT.

All of those modifications that I’d made, the colours, the fonts, the borders, etc, etc… gone. I was sitting there with a puke green on white blog. This simply would not do. And my mind started to panic.

“But wait,” I thought. “This is exactly why I just made all those backups (and to think I nearly didn’t!)”

So I went and uploaded my old version of the theme and all is good again… but really, it was not worth the heart attack. When they say to back up before making modifications, listen to the powers that be.

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Hmmm… I’ll have to figure this out later

{edit} Excellent… you really only have to add < ?php the_meta(); ?> to the loop for custom fields to work. This is good to know (not that I’ll likely have to do it again…)

Lookit!!!! it’s my colours again!!!! The CSS playing was done instead of an assignment, the secondary colours were determined based on my two main colours (the dark purple and the dark green) using this cool little app from {syle:phreak;}… very useful for me, yup yup!!!

I have a feeling that there are a couple more things I want to do to the set up, including adding the gravatar plug in for comments, and figuring out how to make my comments stand out against everyone else’… but that’s for later, when I actually have time…

Any thoughts on it, though?? Anything hard to see??Not looking right?? Clashing in a really obvious way??

So, here I am finally starting to use my brand new wonderful and shmarmy site… so far this place is pretty damned empty, but I’m planning on moving over all of my old posts from my dead journal… maybe tonight if I’m really feeling like not doing homework (which I’m really not). I’m also hoping to figure out the whole themes thing, because quite honestly, this default WP theme is UGLY!!!!!

Anywho, wahoo, I’m here, and stuff….

Sooooo, here’s the deal. A couple days ago I was looking at Freshly Pressed, which is a brand new blogging host run by Stuart at thebombsite.com,, and several others. So I was asking Dave if he thought that the pricing was good, etc etc, because I’ve been thinking of switching off of DeadJournal for well… about a year, but let’s not discuss my procrastination..

So, Dave kept on saying, well, it’s expensive, and do you trust the place and going on and on, then finally, he cracked, and told me. Because I’d been lazy for a year, Dave went ahead and registered my domain for me, for Christmas. Dave also got me hosting for 2 years and….he’s wonderful. So I have one of my presents a little early, but it’s all good.

So… at some point in time, I will be moving to eberndl.ca. Feel free to go there now, but you WILL be disappointed. There’s nothing.

So that’s exciting and great… BUT there’s more!!!! (can you believe it???) Because I’ll have my own domain and my own database…. I can finally host my own blog!!!!!!!!!!!!! (WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Believe me, this is exciting and something I’m looking forward to emensly!!! There’s a one step WordPress installation with the hosting company, but I still might want to look over TextPattern… Anyone want to give me any suggestions??

Further, in either case, I’ll probably want to make my own theme, and I have to figure out how to do that right… so much geeky fun, so little time (well, after you finish with the midterms and assignments, and seminar presentations and inventing).

The final exciting bit is that after taking it apart YET again, my poncho is for real and truely finished. I had to take it apart (like 3 weeks ago) and shorten it because the neck was WAYYYY too big (yes, this is the same poncho I made last year, and wore dispite it not fitting properly). So I’d ripped it shorter and even re-seamed it a couple weeks ago, but because it hates me, the neck line was rolling. A LOT. So, today while the power was out in my building (it was scheduled, so it’s not exciting), I had no acess to my computer, no internet, no PHONE… so I realised I really and truely had time to finish the project. And I did. My poncho now has a completed neck line with 2 rows of triple crochet to make it look tidy. Go team me.

I believe that it all… you may go now.