Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Everyone loves something for free. I got this email recently.

After a few years with the old theme, I decided to change things and use a new theme. It’s a little stark, but has a nice clean feel. A few things need to be tweaked, but that just takes time.

Some older posts may look odd, or not work quite right. I may or may not go back and fix them.

I spent about four hours today working online because I installed Internet Explorer 9.

No, there were no problems with IE9. That time was spent fixing this web page.

IE9 installed smoothly and looks nice and sleek, seems to run fast and I’m told is much improved over older versions of IE. Microsoft would like to forget IE6, I’m sure.

But, as always, Microsoft’s vision of how HTML should work is slightly different from everyone elses’. Actually, all the major browsers vary in small ways. But as soon as I viewed this blog in it, I noticed the font I am using for the titles didn’t load and the default font was displayed. A minor annoyance, but I wanted to see why it didn’t, what it would take to fix, and if it was still working in the other browsers I have. Continue Reading…

I upgraded the software that runs this site again last week. It seemed like a minor change and should have been a simple job.

I did it first to another site and had experienced no problems. So I was feeling good about doing the same here and getting rid of the nagging notices that a newer version was available.

I did the upgrade by the book, including running all the backup scripts for the posts and data. Then let the script disable all the plugins I didn’t need for the upgrade. It upgraded the site and it all looked good. Until I tried to log in to the admin page. Continue Reading…