2.8.4 upgrade
September 6th, 2009 melApparently WordPress is under attack. As a result I was forced to upgrade despite my weeks of delaying. Here’s the story.
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iPhone WP app
July 17th, 2009 melI just discovered the WordPress iPhone app that lets you post/blog/edit from your phone. The reason it has taken so long for me to discover is because I just couldn’t imagine typing on a keyboard that small for very long.
So, this represents the first post from iPhone.
2.8 version installed
June 21st, 2009 melWordPress ver. 2.8 has been installed successfully. What a relief.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
July 19th, 2008 mel
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Just a quick note, that I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.6. For information on what that means, you can check it out here at the WordPress blog, and watch the video too!
1Password
May 5th, 2008 melThere is one piece of software, that I have found to be invaluable since I started using it last fall. It’s call 1Password.
It seems simple enough. What it does is keep track of all your logins names and passwords and fill in the appropriate text boxes with one or two keystrokes. But that’s not all it does. It can keep track of various identities you use to join up with various forums or shopping sites and with one click fill in all the data for you. Not only that, it can keep track of “wallet” items like credit cards or secure notes like serial numbers on purchased software. All of this is kept on a secure separate keychain.
So if you use a Mac, check out 1Password.
Louise Logs
April 20th, 2008 melAn artist friend of mine is creating a series of videos entitled, the Louise Logs. I think they are brilliant, and given the nature of the dialog, I think they fit perfectly with the title and intents of this blog. The plan I have come up with, is to post one here each week (at this point in time, there are five of them).
Of course, you can always see them all at once if you like. Here, then, is the first one:
Remember to turn your sound on. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
WordPress 2.5 upgrade
April 1st, 2008 melI downloaded and installed WordPress 2.5 last night. Nothing the reader sees should change until I learn more about the new version, which is a complete overhaul. That means there are new features that will become evident once I learn how to implement them. An example of something that interest me is a feature called galleries.
More on this as I learn more.
Snap Shot and Spellcheck
February 29th, 2008 melI have a blog on WordPress.com, besides this one (WordPress.org). Anyway, on that site, something called Snap Shots is enabled (there is not as much control by the user there).
I figured that it had to be a plugin of some kind and I was able to find it. It’s very easy to install. You don’t have to be a programmer, and if you go to the Snapshot web page, they even have a 1 click installation button. So now, if you hover your mouse over a link, it will show you a snapshot (get it 
) or preview of the page that it is linked to.
While checking out .COM, I examined the spellchecker since I haven’t been able to get it to work on the .ORG site and it worked. So, I came to this site and tried it, and it worked perfectly.
Prior to this, I would get an error message. Now you click on the spellcheck and that turns it on and checks the spelling, then underlines the misspelled words in red. Clicking on the red words will offer suggestions. Now, I think you should be able to click on the suggestion and that will replace the word, but that doesn’t happen.
Follow-up:
It didn’t work because for whatever reason, Camino won’t play. Works fine in FireFox.
new blog theme
February 28th, 2008 melI like this theme. It’s called Biru and it’s by BlogOhBlog. Kind of new and fresh looking, so I’ll keep it for now. There are a number of themes I like, though, so I’m investigating theme switchers. Actually I tried one today, but it was buggy.
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Meanwhile, Enigma4Ever has a first hand report on the Democratic political race in Cleveland, and seems to have some insight into Obama’s popularity that many in the media miss.
He is trying to Unite the Dems, but also unite us as People that have suffered for 7 years.
Check it out. Cool blog.
outward change
February 27th, 2008 melI decided I wanted to see something different, so I changed the theme. I’ll go back to my previous theme after a while because there are some things lacking. I downloaded a few other themes, but they don’t seem to work very well.
After I wrote the above, I changed the theme again.
Maybe I should keep the outside the same, and change the inside. 
