the weblog of David A. Price

Okay, maybe not completely.  But now, as I get ready for bed, I’m pretty much where I was at the start of the day, as far as this site is concerned.

For some reason (I’m sure there’s a logical one, but I’m too tired to explore it) over the past couple days, I’ll notice my blog will be a blank page, save for a 500 Internal Server Error.  Yet, I could access the backend.  But anything on the front page, or any page, was a no go.  So I upgraded to WordPress 2.6.1.  I’m glad I didn’t think that would eliminate the message because it didn’t.  But I did deactivate some plugins and that worked.  Or the 500 Internal Server Error gave up on me and let me access my site again at that very moment when I refreshed the page.  Oh, and I modified the site for PHP5.  Maybe that fixed it.  I’ll know soon enough.

Then, I downloaded and installed WicketPixie, a WordPress theme designed by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome, an e-newsletter writer and blogger that I’ve been following for about ten years now, more or less.  And I really like it.  And I would be using it right this minute, but the menu bar at the top was slightly off and I could not get the sources page to load.  I’m not giving up on it, but I want to fool around with it before I go live.

It never fails.  When I do not have the time to devote to something, that’s when I spend a ton of time doing just that.

In any case, I’m going to bed.  Maybe I’ll do some reading.  While work is kicking my butt and eating up any free time I may have during the day, I can at least record some thoughts in the car for Marvel Noise.  Episode 45 was released last week.

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And I can be found on 11 O’Clock Comics with Vince, Chris, and Jason.  Episode 17 seems to be well received.

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Thanks to this entry, and the steps outlined within, I’ve added a favicon to the site.  Of course, I have to give a huge kiss to Braxton Harrison for sending me the caricature many moons ago.

I guess it’s true.  It is the little things…

Previous blog posts have been moved, links are getting set up the way I want in the sidebars, pages are coming along nicely (that Podcast Appearances page is gonna be a pain in the ass), and redirectors have been put in place from old links.  Plus, I was able to put the blog in the root directory, so I’m happy.

Unfortunately, my host sucks.  And I don’t think I’ll be with them any longer than I have to.  Port 995 is blocked, so I cannot blog from email or my Treo.

In any case, I’ll be adding more links, playing with the RSS feeds (not sure what the final tally will be - if I feel that they’re slowing the loading of the page, I’ll kill ‘em), and most importantly: posting more.

Yes, this is another change to the blog. I’m giving Wordpress another whirl. Mostly because it will allow me to moblog from the Treo and because the plugins are more vast.

We’ll see what happens…