Inspiration
F unny how time off always brings the creative me out again. When I’m working I rarely do anything with my own websites, but give me a couple of days of holiday and things start to itch. I’ve been upgrading most of the logs under my control to the new version of WordPress, and I’m pretty impressed with a) how fast and relatively smooth the upgrades went, and b) what the new dashboard looks like. It’s so much cleaner and better designed than it was, and I love that I now have a widescreen form to type my posts in instead of the cramped up space I used to have. WordPress.org itself has some pretty interesting new categories no the site (or new … they are new to me, maybe they’ve been there for ages but I just didn’t notice)....
Interesting messages …
I received a strange-looking envelope in the mail today, which contained a mysterious little gem by C.S. Lewis. Funny, as I was watching Narnia only yesterday.
First holiday day …
w asn’t exactly as I had planned. The second I got up I received a call, first from the Gemeente Westland if I could quickly fix something – yes, I could. Then I called the Gemeente Dongen to see what was up as I’d received a mail last week asking if I could give them a call. I ended up driving over and discovering a SOAP protocol, which replicates database records to the internet server and thusly populates the website, had been malfunctioning since last tuesday. Jeez louise, you’d expect the IT organisation to at least suspect something is wrong when a protocol starts polling shitless, thus hogging over 50% of the server’s memory capacity. Ugh. Arno is having fluish symptoms, which isn’t strange since it’s his first day...
New Theme
I ’m officially in love with my new theme. I liked the previous one, but even though it was a premium theme, it didn’t work so well as I had expected. The search box apparently didn’t work, neither did scrolling back to older posts. And I think people were fed up with having to click through to find my posts, so I resorted back to something that would show my posts clearer on the very first page. I know the design probably takes some getting used to, but what has me absolutely psyched is the Lifestream to the right. I first tried to simply implement a Lifestream plugin, but I can’t because this blog apparently still resides on a server with php4. I vaguely remember having complained about that with Yourhosting before, and I am going to do so...
Weekend
F riday night was really good with me, Olli, Bren and Kel having drinks at the Fiddler (or at least, they did), going to Oni for yet another fabulous sushi-fest, and then returning to the Fiddler for more drinks. I love how we spend more time together lately. It’s so easy to immerse in work and forget you have a social life. I had something to celebrate – a very good lead on a possible new client. A structural one. Very happy about that. We’ll see on january 7th I guess. On the way back I lucked out with the train. It was raining pretty badly when I was waiting for the tram, which arrived at 23:51 while I knew my train would depart at 00:01. I really thought I wouldn’t make it, and if it had been on time I probably wouldn’t have, but...
Lyanna
~ zelfstandig professional ~ sushi ~ pasta ~ katten ~ fotografie ~ beautyblogger ~ zingen ~ lezen ~ gadgets ~ apple ~