Posts Tagged ‘blog’
There are two reasons for my absence
I had a bit of a run of post writing over the past couple of weeks which came to halt on the weekend for two very good reasons. The first reason is that I’ve been commissioned to do some character design work which I cannot at this stage talk about but it’s very cool, very exciting and I’m really enjoying the work as it is in the eventual direction that I want to go in.
It’s weird because unlike commissions I’ve done for people wanting established characters we’ve got to design the character up from ground. OK I’m not going to go on any further because I’ll give details up and I can’t (did I mention the word cool?).
The second reason I can talk about and no doubt will at length for some time as it simply is the smartest and funniest show I’ve seen in a long time: Arrested Development.
Tonight we finished the last episode (sniffle) and I am so blown by this show (you left out ‘away’… it sounds wrong when you leave it off). Tracey and I are still laughing about Gob’s chicken dance that in Mexico is considered quite offensive and in the Sargent household it’s a show stopper.
I will devote some time to this in the future but I wanted to let you all know quickly why I may not answer comments very quickly and post a little infrequently (I’ll try though).
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Wordpress 2.5
So I couldn’t wait, everyone was concerned over the screenshots floating around for the next install of Wordpress and as soon as I found the candidate release I figured why not install and see what all the fuss is about.
So far I actually quite like the admin which is probably the most obvious change. Of course with change there is pain and you may notice the embedded videos in a few posts have disappeared because my embedded video plugin is not compatible and the big one which I only just installed along with this theme was the popularity plugin. I hope it isn’t too long before we see an update for that!
So if anything quirky happens over the next couple of days you’ll know why!
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Some updates about here
I’ve actually had some time to work on QYDJ over the past couple of days which has been really nice for a change because I often have to let things slide by.
I’ve installed some cool plugins that I will watch how they work out over the next couple of weeks.
The plugins are:
I’ve used a couple of these previously and the embedded video plugin is an upgrade on the old version I was using. I’ve really loved the email responder because it means that you get notified that I’ve responded to your comment which I make every attempt to do with every one I get.
The community cloud is also a nice way to recognise people who have left comments so hopefully you’ll see your name there from time to time (it’s random in the names it shows, the more you comment the bigger your name!).
cforms 2 is a much better emailing form than I used to have, it’s all in ajax so it processes without reloading the page. Wayback replaces my one year ago plugin that always seemed to break my sidebar controls.
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Well this is the new place then
It’s been an extraordinarily long process setting up the new blog and trying to move all the old stuff in. There were a lot of times I thought to myself why not start fresh? But I think it would be a shame to loose all the old stuff and I only just got to start using my one year earlier plugin (which for some reason seems to damage my sidebar).
So anyway thanks for making the trip over from blog.sarge.com.au I’m going to have to find a way to drag all the images from over there onto this domain name and get the redirection working seamlessly.
Still getting over the flu, had a bit of relapse over the last couple of days because I haven’t been sleeping and got a lot on at work so all the posts I had planned haven’t been done.
So please change your bookmarks and RSS feeds over to the new address and I’ll get onto regular posting again!
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