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And someone created a plugin for it for WordPress so now all I have to do is load them up and sort my photos. If I like it and it doesn’t wreck my theme too much I will be very pleased.I’ve been looking and looking and hadn’t found anything I could tolerate.
It had to have an easy to integrate theme in css, not tables.
It had to be easy to use.
I didn’t want to use any flash or ajax or have to assign rel tags to every photo.
I was very demanding and lazy.
I wanted something right out of the box.
I am really tired of redoing tables based layouts in css and xhtml.
The reason I never bothered with Zen Photo before is that I associated it with Zen Cart.
Because ofthe name Zen.Isn’t that silly? As far as I can tell they aren’t related.
And while Zen Cart doesn’t take a genius to make look presentable it is beyond my patience to labor over something that large and unweildy just to have a gallery.I’d do it for a client but hell no, not for my own site.
Month: January 2008
On encountering a WP Mysql database error without dying
I’m helping my friend Tina move her blogspot blog to a wp installation on her own website and I’d used the category to tag convertor when I was checking through all her posts to see if things were formatted correctly.Well, I’ve used this tool before and noticed that when you do this it removes all those categories and makes them tags.
This threw me off at first but I got over it.
Except I did first assume that this tool would duplicate, not remove. And in this particular caseI didn’t think that posts that once had a certain category assigned to them would be assigned to a read only uncategorized category. In essence un assigning them. Poor little orphans.
By read only I mean Uncategorized was just text and not a linked category when I went to Manage Posts…
So on her blog if you happened to click on a word in her tag cloud that belonged to a post that used to belong to a category that was converted to a tag but hadn’t been assigned a new category upon saving the post,it made a database error and led to a blank page instead of the single post view.
I read her error log and it told me it was a database error. I didn’t understand the error but I did notice that posts that had both tags and a category were fine and if you clicked the title permalink it led to the single post view.
So all I had to do was go through all her posts that had the text-not-linked Uncategorized category and assign those posts a category.
With my keen powers of observation and deduction I managed to resolve a database error that I didn’t understand. And I didn’t die.
Here is the lovely error message:
WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘AND comment_approved = ‘1’ ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10′ at line 1 for query SELECT wp_comments.* FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = AND comment_approved = ‘1’ ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10
Dogtown on National Geographic TV!
That’s what Best Friends looked like in the 80’s!
I’m super-excited to see this show because I grew up with the folks who created Best Friends Animal Sanctuary located in Kanab, Utah.
When I was about 13 they decided to buy what used to be known as the Kanab Canyon Movie Ranch and develop the property for residences.And as they were doing that they kept coming across stray dogs because I guess people from the surrounding area and townships would dump their unwanted dogs on the property. My ex-stepdad,Michael Mountain and my mom were vigilant animal rescuers for years and their friends were like minded individuals who never believed in kill shelters. It seemed to just happen that they would build a shelter for the dogs that just kept coming. And one for the cats who were also turning up at a fast rate– soon a section of the shelter was filled with cats and kittens.
Years later the organization has grown exponentially and is very well known. When I go back to Utah to visit my mom and we go visit Best Friends I am always surprised to see what a well run and professional organization it is. Because I remember when it was just a few raggedy runs for the dogs and a little shack for the cats.
The show premiered January 4, at 9 p.m.
The next one is tomorrow night and I ‘ve missed 3 episodes already!
It will be a treat to watch the show with Bozzio and Dakota, she’s coming over tomorrow just in time.Dakota has a bit of a problem with the peeing inside thing so I bought 2 more rolls of paper towels in her honor.
Project Runway & Make Me a Supermodel
Even though I enjoy Project Runway, I have some criticisms.
It’s a fashion show and fashion is Evil. Because it’s really fascism which is not good if you remember Hitler,who Vogue would probably employ.
2 episodes ago.
The prom dress episode: the designers had to make a prom dress and the models were 17 year old girls from NJ – they also were the clients and had a say in how their dress was designed.
Christian got the chubbiest girl and I knew he was going to be in trouble because fashion is about looks and that is why professional models are thin and beautiful.
The judges were not supposed to judge the outfit based on the model’s appearance but rather on how well it was executed and fit but how could the girl’s appearence not effect the outcome? The 2 top dresses picked by the judges were worn by the thinnest girls. The 2 bottom dresses were worn by the plainest girls. Kevin and Christian never had a chance with that challenge…
I give up on this show’s final outcome anyway.The fact that Victorya’s ridiculous blue thing won that challenge over Sweet Pea’s gorgeous silk gown means I can have no idea what will happen.
I am going to paste some pics here of the girls I’m talking about but I’m unsure of the bravotv.com policy on borrowing images so
so all photos shown here credit to bravotv.com/projectrunway.
Last episode
Last night’s episode was a little more successful – the designers were asked to make clothes inspired by stupid hairstyles. But the outcome was really quite spectacular and more along the reason I keep watching this show because lord knows I do not care if a dress can be made out of candy.
I love that this season is just about making clothes. No backstabbing. No machinations.No Machiavellian plots.
Make Me a Supermodel
It’s kind of surreal to watch the Bravo TV show like Make Me a Supermodel where very average looking people (the assistant judges) are judging extremely good looking men and women, nit-picking tiny flaws as if any of them could withstand such scrutiny. Tyson Beckford, apparently a spokesmodel for How to be Annoying all the Time,at least has a personality. Niki Taylor hasn’t got an edge like the fear inducing glitter-eyed Heidi Klum.