Tracking down a Widget bug. ;)
–TSK
Tag: Real Life
The King Widgets
I had some time last weekend (after realizing that the other site upgraded relatively painlessly) and went a searchin’ for some tools to help configure my layout from anywhere – even work, in a pinch. ;)
I ran across a little goldmine over here. It’s a group of WordPress ‘Widgets,’ mini-plugins that work off a special widget plugin you can find here.
What I’m using from his list so far:
— King Framework – Required, its a library for the other stuff
— King Login – Used primarily to restrict my login/meta section to the main page
— King Text – It allows inclusion of HTTP/PHP files. Yay!
— King RSS – Much nicer-looking RSS feed, which allows different settings in different areas.
An example of what some of this allowed is available from my ‘Second Life’ catagory link. You’ll see two things a bit different:
— At the top of the sidebar, there’s an updating Lindex stat summary (mined on a regular basis from outside my webroot).
— Just under that, the RSS feed for the Linden Weblog has more entries listed.
I’m still playing with these, and some of the other widgets not listed. Should be fun…
EDIT – Hah. As I post this I (of course) run across some sort of bug, or combination of things that are creating a bug. More later, but the RSS feed is back to the main page only…
–TSK
Downtime
Bah.
The T_S Journal site will need to come down sometime this weekend for a proper upgrade. I botched the original install (from Fantastico’s perspective anyway) and would like to correct that.
I’ve also been away from this site, but tis because I’m a bit busy again. Mostly following other’s weblogs. ;) I’ll start to update the ToDo page with topics I want to write about but don’t have the time. Hopefully that will help. Will also drop one of those ’email comment’ thingies so others can make suggestions.
EDIT – I’m also trying to attend to my personal health, which is making me drop off the online radar a bit again. Nothing serious (thankfully), just gotten out of shape the past five years and trying to correct it. This was spurred on by the suddenness of what happened to my tooth a couple months ago (which is still being worked on) as the dentist has no clue how that happened.
*wave*
–TSK
Annoying Weekends
As other folks on MystBlogs have made me feel somewhat better about my past weekend (i.e. misery loves company), I’m obligated to give back and post the rather roller-coaster-like fun I’ve been through.
Before starting, note that my ‘weekend’ normally starts first thing Friday morning, as I work 3rd shift. With that out of the way…
Fri afternoon – Planned upgrades to our backup system at work. Went smooth (so I should have realized something was amiss), done about 3 hours including cleaning up after.
Sat – Rather hellish experience with the second half of said upgrade. Included two hours following a red herring (bad tape made me think at first was a bad drive) and five hours on the phone with EMC (whose tech was really cool for someone on-call on a Saturday evening). Ended up my being stupid and not doing something out of old habit to clear part of the system configuration. *Huge-HeadDesk*
Sun-Today – Being ultra-careful and getting things back in order again. I’ll probably be still doing this another day or so. *sigh* Thankfully that was interspersed with nice weather on Sunday and Monday – enough so to run up to the NY RenFaire, so it was not all bad. Just annoying as ever…
–TSK
Updates
As I’ve left a couple things up in the air…
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Dentist – Visit #2 was last week, got things sealed up and a better temp filling in place. Now on the waiting game for the infected area around it to heal.
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SL Forums – It’s been clarified that only certain sections of their forum will be closed. In particular, the ones either 1) not directly involved with SL discussion, or 2) exploited too much by trollers. Also the group forums, but that’s in a few months.
That comes down to their General sections as well as Land and Economy, for the biggest offenders. Hopefully, that will calm things down a bit.
I may even consider ResModding again…
–TSK