Got Wills

Well, I thought it was kind of weird that I stopped getting comments all of the sudden… even spam comments have been absent (for quite some time, now that I think about it). Well, Frank, from futtta’s blog informed me earlier tonight that my comments weren’t working. It was claiming that all the required fields weren’t filled (name and email).

Well, I got to work investigating the offending code, and it seems there was a name attribute missing from the input tag for email in comments.php for the finestripes theme. I simply added the attribute name="email" to the necessary input tag and it started working. Now, I guess it’s time to get Akismet up to date.

Sorry, Frank, for misspelling your blog’s name in my last post.

I think I’ve finally gotten all set up again. I’m now running OpenSuse 10.3 on VMware Server. I upgraded my computer. I’ve got the latest release of Wordpress running and a theme that I really like. Isn’t it great looking… and yes, those are my three beautiful children in the header image. For those that have slow connections, I apologize for the large size of the picture (almost 100K), I couldn’t justify reducing the quality of the picture.

I had too much trouble with Microsoft Virtual Server to keep it around after my hard drive change. Almost everytime my computer had an unscheduled reboot (my power went out), it dropped the virtual network card and created a new one which drove opensuse crazy.  I’ve had no such problems with VMware server. It was also a lot easier getting the VMware tools running than it was getting Virtual Machine Additions to work properly. So now my time is syncing and all (my clock was running a little slow before I installed it). Getting the mail setup correctly threw me a little. Opensuse 10.3 uses Postfix by default, and I had only setup sendmail, and my ISP requires authentication for outgoing mail now. I eventually found the necessary instructions. It was actually a lot easier to set up than I thought it would be. I ended up using my ISP’s SMTP server as a relay and SMTP AUTH to get me logged into it. (Continue reading…)

It turns out, I’m not feeling ambitious enough to create my own theme, at least not right now. I have found a theme that I like enough to stop my constant scouring of WordPress theme sites. Wouldn’t you know… It’s the default with a few of the options tweaked.

Well, I looked through about a hundred themes last night… As you may have noticed, I didn’t like any of them. Now I intend to create my own theme. This is, however, more complex than I thought it would be. Well, I don’t know a better way to learn than to dive in. Of course, I really should try to tackle this some time before the sand man is tugging at my eyelids. Maybe I’ll try to hit it some tomorrow.

I’ve looked through some of the instructions and one particular saying comes to mind, “Nothing worth doing is easy…” Is that a saying or did it just pop into my weary head. I guess I better go to bed before I start typing gibberish.

Well, I’ve finally started a new blog using my new and improved domain, phillipwills.com. Everybody had so much trouble with the .info, I thought I should try to find a .com that works. So, here it is. The site isn’t much, yet. It is hosted on Google, but I plan to get a computer to setup as a linux server. Then I’ll make it my Web server and host all of my stuff from my own house…

My own house, did I mention that I’m in the market for a new house, or an old one, as long as my wife likes it. We looked at a couple yesterday, but we will probably wait and look at some more houses before making a final decision. It was fun looking, though.

Another thing, I’m going to start trying to get more computers to fix as a consultant. I’d like to build some Web pages, too. It’s so annoying that you can’t find a menu online for one restaurant in Holbrook (other than the major chains, of course). I’d like to make that change, as well as make an event list and even a forum… but that’s a little farther down the road.

One more thing, and I’m done. I need a better theme for WordPress. I’m going to look around a little more tonight, but I need to go to bed soon.

Night all.