Encountering Some Errors

Last week, I finally got around to updating WordPress. While the link that had been showing on the top of my screen for the last several months indicated I could automatically update, it turned out this wasn’t the case. Last week was the first time I had the opportunity to take the time to manually update.

The process took me several tries and many errors before I finally had the latest version of WordPress up and running. I judged this by the fact that my home page appeared, instead of saying “server not found.” Success!

Except, I went online to check my ..read more

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 Now that my finals are over, I decided it was time to use my free upgrade to Windows 7. I have to admit, I didn’t hate Vista as much as the next person, and I had heard bad things about the upgrade process (though not about Windows 7), so I was a little nervous going into it. I thought I would start the install, only to come back to a completely unusable computer, stuck halfway between operating systems, that I would then have to wipe clean and start fresh. Thankfully, this was not the case.

I started the upgrade process by ..read more

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I have encountered two human factors issues lately that have left me confused — some for far too long.

The first of these is with Google Analytics. I used Analytics to find out if there are actually people viewing my site and where these people are from. However, I recently updated the theme for my website, and forgot to include the Analytics tracking code.

It should have been obvious, when right around the same time I rolled out the changes, Analytics kept telling me no one at all was visiting my site, but I also hadn’t posted a new entry ..read more

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As I am starting to prune down my possessions, in honor of my impending graduation (and with Christmas gifts looming), the thought of living a nomadic lifestyle has crossed my mind.

I have been planning for about 6 months now to go on a trip after graduation. Backpacking across Europe is an appealing, though expensive, notion. I have never really traveled alone, and am looking forward to a chance to venture out on my own, preferably someplace relatively safe for this first trip. However, there are some real difficulties in getting a month’s worth of “stuff” to fit into a backpack ..read more

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The last time I looked at CSS, tables were still (more or less) an acceptable way of doing things. When I learned HTML, everyone was using frames.

For a while now I’ve been wanting to re-learn CSS. Using WordPress themes was an excellent way to get my website off the ground, but I know I’m capable of designing a personalized and user-friendly website of my own. Plus, knowledge of CSS seems like a useful thing to have.

Two days ago I breezed through a tutorial on CSS — learning a lot about what the different terms represent, but not a lot about ..read more

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