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OCTranspo

pookzilla — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:36:55 +0000

So, Ottawa transit drivers are on strike. Normally I have the utmost sympathy and support for striking workers, but I just cant manage it this time. Something feels different. The strike isn’t even impacting me that severely. I walk to work, and I’m a homebody to boot so I’m not REALLY missing the bus all that much. All the same, I find myself angry with the union and its employees. A good deal of this probably leads back to the antics of their union president who, by virtue of his media interviews, is a Mean Bastard. I have a hard time believing he’s really as callous as he seems to be – after all, what is the likelyhood that the antichrist would spawn in Ottawa?

(Also, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. So far I’m liking the new admin interface although I wonder if it was really necessary – the old one wasn’t that bad.)

From The Wordpress App

pookzilla — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:44:08 +0000

This is being written from the new Wordpress iPhone app. It was hard to get going – there were security issues with xmlrpc.php that resulted in XML parse errors and crashes but after fixing those it appears to be okay.

Upgrade Mostly Complete

pookzilla — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:34:40 +0000

Wordpress 2.5 is up and running and I have picked a template I like quite a bit. All I need to do is get some graphics to personalize it.

Geocache is Go!

pookzilla — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:50:58 +0000

Our first Geocache – GC1bF79 – is up and running. It went live by noon or so and immediately after it did I noticed a problem with the instructions. I had it fixed in about 5 minutes but apparently by that time some people had already gotten the originals and did their calculations based on them. The first to find happened sometime after 4pm today and their prize was an Eclipse branded USB stick graceously donated by Paul Webster.

In other news I think I’ll be doing the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 this evening. A new theme may also be in the works – I really don’t like the one I have now style wise or construction wise. There are a lot of oddities deep in its bowels and I suspect it may be the root cause of some weird 404 issues I’ve been getting.

Upgrade: Done

pookzilla — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:42:25 +0000

My first attempt at upgrading Wordpress has gone off without a hitch. I installed 2.3.2 after a quick backup of all DBs and content. It was only a minor upgrade, mind you, but I remain (naively) optimistic that the next one will be as easy.

Wordpress

pookzilla — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:51:59 +0000

I wish I had switched to Wordpress ages ago – God knows Aaron has been extolling it’s virtues for years now. I feel like such a sucker (nay, a Luddite) for sticking with Blogger for so long.

Moving On

pookzilla — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:03:17 +0000

After much stressing and fussing with Blogger I decided to make the switch to Wordpress. I investigated all of the methods for moving my old blogger content over to Wordpress but in the end I figured a) it’s a lot of effort when you dont publish to Blogspot and b) I felt like a clean break. I feel like I’ve changed enough over the past few years to put the old blog to bed entirely. I’ll leave the archives in place but all of the new stuff will be showing up here.

I’ve done some basic effort towards making a template that’s all my own but I’m not satisfied with the result at all. I don’t feel particularly monochrome at the moment and yet everything I tried ended up being black and grey. Hopefully I’ll find some time in the near future to do something that’s a bit more “me.”