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Tiny mishap

Tom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:17:01 +0000

So apparently when I upgraded to WordPress 1.5.1.3 back on June 29th, something happened to my .htaccess file. This was no fault of WordPress, I think I just deleted it by accident. This caused every post to appear broken.

And lucky for me, no one noticed.

Some of this, some of that

Tom — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:26:29 +0000

Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog being set up with WordPress. I celebrated by making a donation to Matt Mullenweg.

In a year I managed to make 110 posts, get 100 legitimate comments, and get 8,873 spam comments.

I have to admit I’ve learned a little bit about a whole lot.

Upgrade to WordPress 1.3

Tom — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:28:25 +0000

As I’m sure some of you have noticed, over the past few days I’ve updated tompreuss.com to WordPress 1.3. Now WordPress 1.3 is still in alpha, but it’s stable enough for me. It took me a while to fix my stylesheet and get everything to look the same as it was, but pretty much everything is great now.

The way themes are handled just blows my mind.

Comment spam

Tom — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:14:10 +0000

Whoa. I totally got hit with some comment spam today. 13 comments with a link to some poker website.

So I’d like to take this opportunity to give some props to WordPress‘s comment handling. It took me less than 20 seconds to delete them all.

Amazing. And poker-dude, I’ve got my eye on you…

CSS fixing

Tom — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:40:50 +0000

I fixed up the CSS around here today. Now everything should look fine, even in Internet Explorer. If you think anything looks weird, let me know.

If you like, you can use the style section of the menu to compare the current (“tom”) to the old (“tom_old”). Just make sure you set it back to “tom” when you’re through.

Update: I uninstalled the style switcher plugin on November 1, 2004.

I’m such a dummy

Tom — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:34:22 +0000

Yeah, so if you view the menu I tweaked yesterday in any screen resolution or browser window size other than the one I was using when I set it up it doesn’t work right.

So I’m going back to the float until I can figure something out. Or someone makes a suggestion…

Style some of this

Tom — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:39:53 +0000

I did a bit of work today on tompreuss.com.

First I fixed up the menu. Since the beginning, I had been using a float. Now I’m going with absolute positioning. So instead of being three pixels off in Internet Explorer, it’s about ten pixels off. Weird. Of course, this was the main reason I made the switch, so I’ll have to look into that.

I also did some work on the link manager and added a few empty pages. This is in the hope that I will be motivated to work on them in the coming weeks.

However, the big improvement of the day was the installation of Alex King‘s Style Switcher. Check it out. The default still should be the same, but now you can choose to view the site in a variety of ways. Ahh, the beauty of CSS.

Update: I uninstalled the style switcher plugin on November 1, 2004.

Preview this

Tom — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:37:11 +0000

As per Joey’s request, tompreuss.com now has a comment preview feature.

It’s a modification of LaughingLizard’s Comment Preview for WordPress 1.2. Pretty nifty, if you ask me.

And their cats

Tom — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:57:00 +0000

Cool. I just worked out all the details for a trip this weekend. I’m going to be heading up to Vermont to visit my brother and sister-in-law.

Now I’ve got something to look forward to this week.

Also, I’m working on getting some sort of photo layout thing going here on tompreuss.com. I’m thinking it will motivate me to start shopping for a good digital camera too. Any suggestions?

Talk about expectations

Tom — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:46:12 +0000

Ever since Matt put up that list of well-designed WordPress blogs he’s come across, I’ve really been trying to spruce up the design around here. I even played around with a few attempts at a logo before calling it quits. I just couldn’t even come close to what I really want it to look like.

I suppose I shouldn’t compare tompreuss.com with high-end sites like those on the list.

Well, on to that menu…