I spent the first couple of hours tonight trying to get WordPress up so I could see if I like it. I started at Livejournal.com, switched to Blogger.com, and now I wonder why I need Anything.com. I should be able to bypass any 3rd party blog host and post directly on Chasing the Wind. Since I know -0- php and have only vaguely heard of a mysql database, I didn’t get far tonight. The GoDaddy tech support guys were helpful in a “I’m pretty sure we support php” kind of way.
Before I did that, though, my Zonealarm firewall automatically updated and locked my computer up. I don’t know what they did in this version, but it isn’t working. I reverted back to a previous install.
Then I played with background ideas; I think I’m going to leave this one up tonight. I think it’s better than the ALL SWIRL ALL THE TIME CALL NOW OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY noisy background, but the left margin isn’t right, I don’t need that vertical lavendar line anymore, and I’m not sure I care for the Date/Message Title being outside of the box. Maybe I’ll bring the title inside the box, and leave the date outside the box. I dunno.
The box itself looked too dull with a solid background, so I tossed a light sunburst on the background and clipped off the sun. I tried to make it as mellow as I could. Miss Vox might pop back in here and indicate that the new design looks like a colorblind engineer worked on it. She’d be right, too.
It’s a big week this week, so I can’t be staying up too late. I’m busy at work with several big deadlines looming over the next 4 weeks, and my son graduates from high school this weekend. That’s something I’ve tried to avoid thinking about – it gives me the melancholies thinking that a) he’ll be off to college in 2-1/2 months, b) the townhome will be way too quiet then, and c) I must be getting older if I have a son in college. I can’t stay in denial much longer, though, I have some preparations to do before the weekend.
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