blog update 092011
I haven’t posted a true blog update in I don’t know how long. If anything, this isn’t a real update. It’s just an excuse to write something on the blog. An excuse to write something more than 140 characters. An excuse to stay away from Facebook. An excuse to do something other than post a video or photo set or bitch about work (although I probably will do that as it is something I’m really itching to do).
I’ve also found that Posterous just isn’t working out for me. It originally was a central place to post easily from (a) my Android phone or (b) my iPod touch. It consisted of primarily photos and videos of Sophia. It was convenient to send to Posterous, where the site would automatically post to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Earlier this year, I did away with hosting and mapped the tenyjr domain to Posterous. Then I found that all the videos posted on Posterous just bogged it down, preventing the home page from loading properly. At this point, I felt Posterous served its purpose. So I’m attempting a return to WordPress.
To keep things interesting, I will try to post daily. If I have nothing interesting or new to say, I will most likely post an image from the archives, similar to a photoblog I used to maintain years ago. This weekend, I hope to remap the tenyjr domain to point it here. I enjoy using the social networks and will continue to use them. But teny jr dot com is my home on the web, and I have creative control over it, something I feel I’ve been lacking lately.
If you choose to visit me, follow me, friend request me, +1 me, block me, hide me, or unfriend me, do what you please. But if you do decide to stick around, I hope you enjoy your stay.
Posterous
Trying out Posterous. Wondering if this is the way to go. Guess we’ll see!
update 120308
Have been tweaking the blog. Gone back (for the third time, or is it the fourth?) to the Cutline theme. This theme has always worked for me. It’s clean, simple, and I get a kick out of my random header images. I also cleaned up the sidebar a bit. Gone is the Digg news feed; instead it sits above the header image along with my other links (including a link to my shared items on Google Reader). Also, the Photos link no longer links to Flickr; I upgraded WordPress along with all plugins last Sunday (long overdue), and now my images are viewable once again on this site. You can still go to Flickr.com to see my photostream there as well.
update 112707
It’s been over a week since my last post. During the work week, I’m pretty exhausted mentally and physically to put in an entry. There’s a lot to talk about, but it gets to the point where I don’t know what to blog about. I know I’m coming off a nice holiday weekend where I had plenty of time to put some thoughts online, but instead I took advantage of it by relaxing and spending time with my wife. Not to mention I spent most of the past week or so rebuilding the laptop. Hopefully things calm down for me with a nice 6-day weekend coming. And maybe it won’t take me 10 days or more to write about something.
white, clean, and neat
I’ve upgraded WordPress, and this will be the third time I’ve chosen to go back to the Cutline theme. Of all the themes I’ve used, this one is the easiest to manage and customize. And it’s easy on the eyes. I went with black not too long ago (for monitor-power-saving reasons), but I just wasn’t happy with it. For my return to Cutline, I trimmed the header images (and removed the text depicting the site name) and kept it random. I plan on creating a static home page; this will be the simplest way to get my Flickr photos displaying nicely on my site.
