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Quest for the dream theme

Posted by zoom! on February 24, 2009, at 7:06 pm |

Ever since Scott Tribe (Scott’s Diatribes) and Debra (April Reign) helped me upgrade to WordPress 2.7, I’ve been trying to find a new blog theme. You’d think, with the hundreds of free themes out there, there’d be something I’d like either straight out of the can or with a few modifications.

But no. It wasn’t that […]

Are you happy with your Fog Index?

Posted by zoom! on February 19, 2009, at 4:59 pm |

I stumbled across this little gem today:

“43% of web users are â€œlow literacyâ€ users who cannot understand a page written above a Grade 6 level.”

So I found an online tool that checks the readability of web pages, and I plugged knitnut.net into it for an assessment. Here are the results:

Reading Level Results for Knitnut.net Front […]

Sheep and Shepherds

Posted by zoom! on February 4, 2009, at 11:07 pm |

Several people have told me that my blog is taking way too long to load since I switched themes. I’ve tried to isolate the culprit by deactivating various plug-ins and widgets, but the problem continues to elude me.

I have a couple of other things I can try, but I won’t have time to get […]

My header’s in the clouds

Posted by zoom! on January 31, 2009, at 4:52 pm |

As you might recall, there was a bit of a re-org here last week. Sheep #2 was fired, but he had it coming. Duncan was promoted but lost one of his ears on the Photoshop cutting floor. Duncan taught the other two sheep how to meow, albeit with Norwegian accents.* There was quite a […]

Same old bus strike, but fresh new knitnut.net

Posted by zoom! on January 27, 2009, at 6:18 pm |

Word on the street is that talks between the bus union and the City have broken down again. This is getting ridiculous. If the so-called negotiators on both sides of the imaginary table are incapable of carrying on the kind of serious and sustained discussion that leads to a successfully negotiated contract, they […]

Bloggy wonkiness

Posted by zoom! on January 19, 2009, at 2:12 pm |

Is anybody else having trouble with Google Reader or with the number of their blog subscribers plummeting recently?

According to Feedburner, I lost half my Google Reader subscribers immediately after upgrading to WordPress 2.7. A couple of days ago I lost the rest of them.

At first I was thinking it was just ME and […]

It hardly hurt at all

Posted by zoom! on January 8, 2009, at 9:10 pm |

Thanks to Scott Tribe, who generously offered to upgrade my blog for me today, I’m now the proud owner of a WordPress 2.7 blog.

This upgrade wasn’t entirely glitch-free either, but it was infinitely more successful than the last one.

Scott and I connected through Skype during the upgrade – he talked and upgraded while […]

Me and my sheep are back

Posted by zoom! on January 7, 2009, at 4:28 pm |

Well that was a fiasco.

The plan was to upgrade WordPress – my blogging platform – because I wanted the latest version, primarily for security reasons. And also because if you’re current, you get new features and add-ons. And also because my trackback feature had broken and I hoped an upgrade might fix it.

I […]

Deep breaths…

Posted by zoom! on January 4, 2009, at 1:45 pm |

I’m about to attempt to do something I’ve been putting off for too long: upgrading WordPress. I sincerely hope I don’t kill my blog in the process.

If all goes well, you won’t notice a thing…

The next post

Posted by zoom! on December 20, 2008, at 4:46 pm |

You know what? It’s hard to write the next post after the Bank Street Bully posts.

Until this week, the most attention this blog ever got was when the Yarn Harlot mentioned it last January and two thousand knitters came to visit on a single day. The most comments a single post had ever generated […]

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