Accidental new look
while i don’t like talking about my blog because that seems so vain, i also realize that my blog is part of my teaching and i like to document much about my teaching on the blog . . . so a blog-related post is sometimes okay, especially when the talk involved something in my blog breaking.
i recently upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.1. i have upgraded just fine since version 1.x many times with no problem. unfortunately, this time around my custom theme didn’t like the upgrade. actually, the blog worked just swell after upgrading, but my side menu where i had a list of the blogs that i visit and all that jazz was showing a database error. i couldn’t fix the code, but i could delete the offending code — except that i was left with no links to the sites i visit and all that. that wasn’t worth it to me so i decided to upgrade my theme.
i read not too long ago about a neat new feature in Drupal 5.0 where the user can customize the current theme’s colors to suit their preferences (and customizable content as well on some themes like http://www.google.com/ig). i fiddled with this on a demo somewhere and it was pretty neat using the eye dropper and all that to change colors. i searched a bit more and found the same type theme available for WordPress 2.1. so here it is. if you click the Options link far above, you too can customize the theme here. and who said that web 2.0 was worthless? ;~)
i learned much about virtual reality recently and i’ll want to write things up, but i’ll have to wait until i have more time as i am teaching a long weekend class this weekend.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Cool new look, Sean!
I also took the plunge and upgraded to 2.1 a couple of days ago. It screwed up my blogroll, category links, and a couple of other things. Definitely NOT an easy upgrade, especially since I know so little about PHP. Fortunately, the WordPress support forum is great, and I was able to find some answers to fix my problems.
By the way, I couldn’t get the customization options for your web site to work in Firefox, but it worked fine in IE. Go figure.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
that’s interesting because i am using Firefox on my Mac and it works just swell. hmmmm. perhaps i’ll seek a solution on the forums.
in other news, i have created a second life character. i plan to write about in my next installment. i think i’ve been online about a total of 30 minutes so far and second life is much more like this first life than i ever imagined. stay tuned. ;~)
February 18th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Hmmm…well, either you tweaked something or my computer was acting goofy, because it works fine now.
I tried Second Life for about 20 minutes, but got a little weirded out when someone wanted to “hook up” with me. I guess I’ll stick to playing my Nintendo DS Lite. Of course, if I consider what a Milwaukee news station recently reported about the DS, maybe that’s just as dangerous.
February 18th, 2007 at 7:48 am
oops! note to self — Rob and Robert are different people. Robert is the 2nd life person; not Rob.