Still absorbing McCain’s VP pick. I know Palin is very well regarded among her constituents and it doesn’t appear that Alaska is about to fall into the ocean so I assume she’s not done too badly there. But, she’s pretty conservative and McCain didn’t really need that, cause the hard core conservatives weren’t going to be crossing over to the democrats anyway. Hate to think it was nothing more than a pandering move, but maybe it was.

Upgraded WP again and went ahead and blew away all my customizations and theme, which should take care of the disappearing posts issue, because it was something in the comment form, I just never figured out what – but now that I’ve got a shiny new untouched form, that should do it. Unfortunately, I’m having a hard time finding a theme that I like, so I’m going to give some of the theme generators a try and see if I can get things back to looking somewhat like they were before, if not better.

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Woohoo!!!!!!

The comment count image is going in the posts…except that from what I can tell from what is displaying (-1) and reading the code, it seems to be deciding that the post ID is invalid and as such, tagging it w/the -1… I really like the idea of getting the comments on the site vs. LJ, especially since I found the “subscribe to comments” plugin so folks can get replies and I really want this to work.

There must be a way to fix it, just gotta figure it out…

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Moved all RSS feeds & comms off LJ and over to Google Reader. LJ is now people only, and the reading format on the Google side works better for me for the comms & feeds.

Beading pages now in WP.

Culinary Note to Self page added

General Note to Self page added

And I do believe that should be the last of the things to be done.

Additional recipes added, check 1/1/07

Photo Gallery now embedded in WP Photography page

Races page now in WP

Compact Archives plug-in installed & working.

Digital Fingerprint plug-in installed, everything looks OK, except for the fact that it’s not actually functioning… Waiting to either hear back from the developer or another user who seems to have run into the same issue and has it working now. And has apparently decided to start working now…

Feed Control installed and operational.

Now, if I could just fix everything else in the world as easily, we’d all be set.

Helped little bro w/ replacing light fixtures today and as a result of that, I’ll be calling an electrician to do the ones I need to have done at the townhouse – I’ve managed to really screw up my bad shoulder trying to hold things up while we got them attached into the ceiling.

I’ve got a friend that could be making a mistake and I’ve done my best to give warning. (Not “you’re an idiot” mistake but a “you’ve got bad information, PLEASE double check it” mistake.) I’ve done what I can and now all I can do is hope that things turn out OK. Frustrating to say the least.

Entry migration is still coming along. Everything that has been brought over so far has been tagged and checked for security. Once everything is in, then there will be some minor cleanup still to do, as anything without a subject is automatically assigned a # for the subject and that has to go. Minor, but mildly annoying. Need to figure out how to convert the archive list to a dropdown cause it’s just too long, and there will likely be some category cleanups as well.

It’s been really interested re-reading everything as I’ve been importing it. I’ve found that when things are going badly, I write a lot more. It’s a little disturbing how things are so different for me now than they were just two years ago. Never in a million years would I have thought I’d be where I am today. Even with all the changes, there are a lot of good reminders of “don’t make that mistake again, dumbass” in the older entries.

But – overall, not a bad migration so far.

Now that I’ve gotten the site migration done, I can finish with the LJ-to-WP history migration. That may take a little while, but at least I’ve got the working tools to do it now.

The DNS propagation still isn’t 100%, but by the morning it should all be there.