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2008.07.22
Wordpress for iPhone
I heard about the release of WordPress for iPhone so I upgraded my blog ( and OOKEE.com) with the latest version of WordPress, set up the app on my phone and started writing this post. Very nice! It looks like I’ll be able to post pics from here, too. I’ll try that on another date.
It’s slow typing on here but it’s great that I’m no longer tethered to a computer. Yay WordPress!
2 Comments | Catergorized: geek site2008.02.25
Over One Million Served
Oh hai! It looks like at some point over the weekend this site topped out over a million visitors since I started bothering with these sorts of stats in July of 2006. One million in a year and a half. I guess that’s not too terribly bad. Of those visits almost 120,000 were uniques, which I’m far more interested in. 120K individuals have come to my site. Sure, a lot of that number is probably search engines and spambots, but a good portion are awesome readers like you.
Many of the visits are a result of searches (overwhelmingly from Google). Some of the more interesting searches took you to learning about the best deodorant, they lyrics for the OREO cookie song, my fun encounter with the TSA a couple years ago, and my choices for top five speculative fiction actresses from a year ago. Mind you, these aren’t the only things that bring people in, they are just some of the top search entries. I have to shout out a big thank you to Costa for the deodorant one… Who knew it would get such attention?
Anyways, thank you for visiting and I hope to see you again soon!
1 Comment | Catergorized: site2008.02.24
Slow Week Fast Week
It’s obviously been a slow week for posting here. I do apologize for that. Mostly I’ve been trying to prevent my brain from exploding from the insanity that was work. We’re doing a company reorganization and it’s needed to happen and what is happening is, overall, a good thing. Yet while the macrovision of what the reorg will look like is done, the specific detail are not. I have several projects to deliver, most of them soon and most of them contingent on each other, and I’ve learned that the people I would have worked with previously are no longer the people I will work with going forward. It’s just that no one seems to know who I will be working with going forward so I’m kind of screwed in the meantime. May, when one of the HUGE and detailed projects is due, is much sooner than these people think. So I’ve been struggling to find out who to work with and I finally managed to arrange some time to talk to the people who matter.
And this was only about a quarter of the work stress last week.
Anyways, it’s not the best excuse, but it’s what I have and I’m sticking with it. Next weekend is our big ski weekend in Tahoe and I have a few days off. I can’t wait; I need to decompress big time.
No Comments | Catergorized: life site work2008.02.10
Please Pardon the Outage
Hi. Alas last night my hosting provider crashed. I haven’t heard yet what was the cause but we were down for at least 12 hours. The latest back up was old so I’ve rebuilt the posts (aren’t RSS feeds awesome?) and put comments back in.
In the meantime, we are back, and will posting promptly about something not related to outages. Not that it’s any more exciting (you should have seen me freaking out late last night!) but it’ll be something beside this boring update.
No Comments | Catergorized: grrr site technology2007.07.26
Tag-alog: 8 Random Things
Tag! I’m it! Or as Carlos would say on his blog, Population Statistic, Guten Tagged! The goal is to divulge eight random things about myself after listing “the rules” and then tagging eight people who may -or may not- play along and list eight random things about themselves. Here are the rules.
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
And here are eight random things about me.
1. I’ve been stabbed in the arm with a knife by a wild Korean boy screaming, “American!” after being chased by his gang out in Hannam-dong after visiting my friend John Schaffer. It was, as they say, “Merely a flesh wound!” Saying I was Canadian calmed them down. They even apologized. I lied, though. I’m American.
2. Speaking of Korea, my friend Robert, my brother Chris and I were almost killed by a notorious serial murderer! I even wrote a song about it, called Chopping Up Robert.
3. I used to have a cat named Lucifer. Otherwise, all my pet’s first names started with “K” (Killian and Kitwik).
4. I’ve lived in San Francisco just shy of 10 years continuously, which is almost three times longer than anywhere else I’ve ever lived.
5. I have over 700 books here at home, and have read approximately 85% of them. This is a small portion of what I’ve read in my life.
6. I hate theme parks. I think it’s the crowds, the lines, and the bad attitudes all the parents are repressing.
7. I love chocolate covered cherries. Their nickname is crack.
8. Just like Carlos, I’m a closet optimist.
Who to tag? I’d like to pick a few people who will play along, unlike last time. Jordon, Kevin, Cassandra, Heather, Different Boy, Molly McGee, Mookee and, just to see if she’ll bite, Milla.
2 Comments | Catergorized: friends geek korea life san francisco site2007.07.13
Anyone Do a Blog Carnival?
Has anyone participated in a Blog Carnival? They look like they’d be interesting if the topics changed, kind of like our old blog challenges (that have once again fallen by the way side).
I’ve been looking at a few of the Carnival listings and chose these: carnival of cinema, bookworms carnival, funny days (because we all have odd stories to tell), the comic book carnival, harry potter carnival, and the anime carnival (which also covers manga). The thing is that I don’t know anything about these things. It seems I just submit material and see how it goes. If anyone’s done anything like this let me know how it went!
5 Comments | Catergorized: geek site2007.06.03
WordPress Geo Plugin Working Again
I’d previously blogged about how the very useful Geo plugin for WordPress snafued my “Write Post” page by not showing anything past the “Publish” button. This was really irritating if I wanted to post a picture.
Since WordPress 2.2 was released I’d been meaning to upgrade and today made the time. The most important thing I discovered with the upgrade is that it fixed my problems with the Geo plugin! Yay!
So now I can get back to maps. I’ll have to go back and tag a few older posts that missed out on Geo data now…
No Comments | Catergorized: geek site2007.05.26
Light Posting Lately, Obviously
Obviously I haven’t been posting a lot lately. I’ve been in several moods the past week, none of which have been condusive to public writing. But that’s OK. Instead I’ve dredged up an old story line and have been working on it again. For those few who I’ve talked to about it, it’s the teen superhero schtick.
I haven’t forgotten the site, but until I start engaging the world again I think things will continue to be a bit light. I’ll try to keep it interesting by just posting quick links and such.
No Comments | Catergorized: life site writing2007.05.03
Wordpress Geo Plugin Snafu
For a couple weeks now I’ve noticed that the page I use to write posts to this site wasn’t loading completely. The section that allows me to upload pictures or add custom fields was missing! Today I finally decided to start digging into why this was happening, and I isolated the problem as something within the Geo plugin.
Naturally I started Googling to see if I could find someone else who had the same problem and had found a solution. Unfortunately no solutions seem forthcoming.
The problem from what I can see (I’m not a PHP coder so this is educated guess work) is that in the file edit-form-advanced.php the code <?php do_action('edit_form_advanced'); ?> should pull in data and fields from plugins. Indeed the Geo plugin seems to have a hook function edit_form_advanced($not_used). I thought the “$not_used” was a clue but even when I pull it out things aren’t better.
This bug trac seems to indicate it might be a problem with PHP itself and mentions a problem with PHP 5.2.0 which was supposedly fixed in 5.2.1… but my host is running that already. The ticket also recommends using the latest cache.php include for Wordpress but there was no love there.
I’m running the latest version of the Geo plugin (1.9.1) and have confirmed this behaviour in Wordpress 2.1.3 and 2.0.2. Unfortunately I’ve only been able to test this on PHP 5.2.1 (I have no idea when my hosting provider upgraded). If anyone has any clues as to what could be happening I would love to know!
1 Comment | Catergorized: geek grrr site2007.02.12
Maps for the Blog
In the process of recoding the site I’m taking the time to update the plugins. One of them is Yongfook’s most excellent Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map. He’s made a number of improvements that, if I weren’t so bloody lazy, I would implement. One that I did use, though, is that when an article has a link on the Cartography page you’ll see a nifty badge (like in the image) that will take you to the map and show you where I’m talking about (easiest spot to find it right now is the San Francisco category).
It’s these simple things that make Doug a happy camper.
No Comments | Catergorized: geek site
