Monthly Archives: August 2008

Stupid Me

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I had confused myself with what I wanted to do with this theme, and wasted my time trying to keep my PHOTOS category out of this stream of posts, when really I just didn’t want that, only was confusing myself since starting to use the wp-piclens-lite plugin (for photos) and it was so stupid of me.

I recognize with perfect hindsight vision that while I was racking my brains and the internet to find the right coding solution, and frustrated that what “should” work “wasn’t working, I saw code that made me know deep down, but ignore, which stated exactly what I was doing, and had done before with my old theme, just was not duplicating the current PHOTO special post in the stream below, until a new photo category post it would sit at the top, then fall to the correct spot in dates of the post stream. AUGHH I was so dumb. It’d be easy to exclude the entire category if I’d only been trying to do that, but I was fixating for some reason on the PHOTO category in a different way.

MY headache I have now is for no good cause, except to remind me how stupid I was, and not to do that again!

It works fine to use “$my_query = new WP_Query” for the special loop … (category_name=featured&showposts=1:) … then use “< ?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();”

Which is detailed on http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action

I want to put :rolleyes: here.

My new RSS Stream Page

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I am using/trying-out a new plugin called “rss-stream”. It’s linked on my “home page” sidebar with the Pages, titled “My RSS Stream”.

It’s pretty neat, but I don’t like the ‘generic’ rss stuff, not having an easy way to change it to something precise, when you have “blogs” or “streams” that are outside of the basics that the plugin has hardcoded. Meaning: the rss link is easily input, but there is no way to change the icon right there on the admin page, or change the text titles for it there, at the least.

So I’ll have to go into the plugin itself and edit it in some way to fit my desires, and I just don’t have the time right now, so it’ll exist there as is.

It has my Flickr Photo Stream, Last.fm, Myspace, & my other regular blog “blog” rss streams listed, as well as my Last.fm “recent plays” … all as text links (like an article linking the title text; the music has title and artist info linked to the last.fm page about that track.)

Unfortunately the last.fm journal entries have nothing denoting that they come from there save the actual link, as well as the Myspace blog, and my other regular blog. These are the “generic” things. I’ll get different icons ASAP at the least, for them.

I’d like to find another plugin, much more customizable easily would be my preference.

Cricut Cartridges

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I got a Michaels.com email last week, with the news that Cricut cartridges were to be $40 each, and if you buy 3, then you can get Design Studio (software to use the Cricut with your computer) for free (limited time offer.)

I was able to go and get 3 cartridges Wednesday the 30th of July.

(I have a Cricut Expression, which I got mid-July 2008, for my birthday.)

I got Jasmine, Opposites Attract, and Walk in My Garden.

I looked at all the carts. online before hand, and had several singled out as possibilities, and the above three were all in that list. I did want one that wasn’t in the store I was in. I am not sure which one above I would have not gotten if they would have had Printing Press available that day. I would have gotten Jasmine for sure, but the other two … one or the other would have had to go.

I haven’t played with them yet, it’s been too busy here for that.

I have been able to download Cricut Design Studio though, which is available for free download as a trial. It will not start for me though. I found on their site where in FAQ’s that it won’t always open correctly at first, but will on second or third try.

It hasn’t done that for me. Not ever for me. Not after three or four or five or six, and more tries. Not after re-starting my PC either, or trying again and again after a re-start, and then again, un-installing it, re-start, re-install, try opening again, nothing. I haven’t gone the way of asking them for help yet, but I will need to get something figured out if getting the nice deal (free software with at least an $89 value) for buying three more than half-priced cartridges will mean anything of value for me (actually getting to use DS!) Of course, the three cartridges are of value to me, of course, it’s just the kicker is the software, and I do want it to work.

I have Win XP SP2 on my desktop and it won’t work. I also have a laptop with Win XP Media Center 2005 and it won’t work either. I’m in the process of removing all my data from the laptop and am going to re-install the whole thing, since I had a problem with my DVD drive and swapped mine and my hubbies, and messed up some things in the process that only a full clean install will provide, and hadn’t been able to do that because I couldn’t find my disk for that purpose, and suddenly it showed up on the floor after a couple of months of searching for it. Go figure. I can’t. So anyhow the hope I have is that when I get my laptop into tip top shape I’ll see if it’ll work with Design Studio at some point before and after updates, blah, blah, blah. And basically figure it out. Hopefully. At least I’ll have a better working laptop, freespace instead of the clogged harddrive I had been working on since I’ve been moving all my music and photos and documents to my desktop this past weekend.