Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
Fidget. Fidget.
I’m fidgety and easily distracted today, a condition which I am sure is tied to my upcoming election (Saturday). In all likelihood, this state of being will only intensify over the next few days and so really, I feel sorry for anyone who actually has to deal with me between now and then.
I’ve been trying to write this post since noon, but apparently the telephone gods have been angered and I have been interrupted many times by the ring ring of someone else needing something else. I’m giving up now, except to say that I’m really thankful for the supportive people in my life right now. You know who you are.
Lucas
Looked after my friend’s son Lucas on Saturday night (which was delightful – really, what an awesome kid) and snapped this picture Sunday morning in the park. This one being my favourite of a bunch of good ones.
No it's not a conspiracy.
It is, however, a collusion of class interests. Yeah, sometimes that looks like the same thing, but the collusion doesn’t rely on one or two people (a shadowy illuminati-type organization) – but all members of the owning class operating on the same premise: their own dominance. PNAC and other elite corporate organizations wouldn’t exist if that collusion weren’t already in effect in every possible way imaginable. (Wage slave anyone?)
Makes it much scarier if you ask me.
Me, in a few short words.
Gah. Posting has been spotty lately – and this was after I promised longer, more literary posts too! I suppose that it just goes to show that I can’t be trusted to always be entertaining. Or something.
It’s been just a regular week – you know – a little work, a little trip to Prince George, and some drinks last night with Jess. Mostly I’m preoccupied with the fact that my union convention starts this Thursday and my big election is on Saturday afternoon. There has been at least one development in my favour which is the incumbent in the position has announced that she is not running and supporting me instead, but on the other hand I’ve heard rumours of at last two other people who might throw their hat into the race. We’ll see. Win or lose, nothing in my life will change very much – and it’s not like there aren’t other union positions to run for at different points (I am already considering running for another term on the bargaining team even though we haven’t finished this round yet). I just hate the idea of losing in front of other people. A lot.
I’m getting my hair done on Wednesday though, so at least if I lose I’ll look good doing it.
I had a dream last night that I was taking photographs in low light without a tripod – and while they were all fairly focused, they came out grainy. That’s just the part of the dream I remember, it was one of those very pictorial nights. I’ve also been having odd sex dreams this week that I’m not going to write about here. Don’t need to give the Freudians any more ammunition after all!
More posting soon – but the next couple of weeks will be a bit patchy, what with union convention and going back to Ottawa for bargaining and all.
Another WordPress upgrade.
I’ve been putting it off for a few weeks – but I finally bit the bullet this morning and upgraded my version of WordPress to 2.5, which of course also required an upgrade of the K2 theme and then some file editing to allay an annoying bug. I think I’ve got it all sorted now and I’m just doing a little practice posting to ensure everything is working okay.
For the reader, there really aren’t many changes to be be noted here – but on the backend, the new WordPress appears at first glance to provide much more powerful content management options. From the browesable media gallery to the tag manager and a nicer interface for dealing with comments, the production end of the software is well-interfaced and relatively intuitive. The ability to import and handle media really has got a lot better with this version – which makes me happy as someone who posts a lot of photos in my blog entries.
One thing I was hoping for but didn’t receive in this upgrade is a better user-management interface – one that would allow the blocking of robots from signing up by domain name or other identifier. I am cleaning up between 1-5 robot-subscribers a day right now, most of which are coming from the same domain (perhaps there is a plugin for this I’m not aware of). And for some reason, the Flickr widget on the side isn’t nicely formatted anymore and I’m not sure how to fix it, but I suppose it’s not that big a deal.
Anyhow. It’s done. And for those of you who use WordPress on your own machines and worry about upgrades and stuff – it’s worth it. If you use K2 then you might run into a problem which is addressed on the wordpress support forum. (PS – the fix recommended didn’t entirely work for me. I ended up deleting all the code from widgets-removal.php which seemed to do the trick without harming anything). Everytime I go through this process of upgrading I think – damn, it’s really time to find a theme other than WordPress. Expect some experimenting again soon.
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