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A (Somewhat) Fresh Start

mero — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:44:02 +0000

So, it turns out fixing up this 2010 theme from WordPress wasn’t all that bad. I managed to get the “official” D6 color in there, get my titles up in my font, and even a nifty picture where the header picture goes (and yes, it’s appropriately licensed to match the rest of the site. I took it after all). I’m pleased. The blog looks refreshed and more up to date with the more modern look and feel of the internet and blogs.

The next trick will be to have some rotating header images to be different every time you visit. I’ve already combed my flickr page for some images to use. Just have to figure out how to do it. I’m sure there’s a plugin for that.

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Accidental Catharsis

mero — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:57:24 +0000

In the process of upgrading all things blog, I had upgraded the version of K2, which is the theme I’ve been using pretty much since I moved this blog to WordPress some four or five years ago. Well, one thing that happened is that K2 changed the way that it handles customizing the theme to your liking (the colors, my header image, etc). In the process of trying to get everything to work, I accidentally deleted the files I used to make my customizations. Eeep!

Now I’m at a crossroads. I’ve wanted to do something to touch up the look and feel of this thing for a long time now. This sort of leaves me the chance. I’ve temporarily switched the blog over to the default 2010 theme that comes with WordPress 3.0. I rather like it, but I lost my header image, and the theme puts the name of the blog in its own font above by default. That’s easy enough for me to turn off, I suppose, but I’m not sure where to proceed. Therefore, the look and feel of the blog will be off for a bit while I decide what to do.

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Hotness!

mero — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:20:22 +0000

Hey, just testing out the ability to post to my blog from my BlackBerry. This is pretty cool!

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1-2-1-2, This Is Just A Test

mero — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:38:42 +0000

The New Yankee Stadium

Just testing something out. You can see the pretty new Yankee Stadium as part of it.

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Posterity, Part II

mero — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:57:31 +0000

Here is a screenshot of the last public iteration of the old T6CD website before I took it offline. As you can see, a few of the main things that make D6 what it is got their start here, such as the “D6 Blue” (I wish I had enough clout to get that like copyrighted or something…). As you can see, I used a much different font in those days, though. Just thought you’d all like to see a small trip down memory lane with me.

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21st Century Technology

mero — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:52:28 +0000

I’ve updated the site to work better on mobile devices. It’s using the most excellent WordPress plugin called WordPress Mobile Edition by Alex King. The part that I like the best is that if you’re using a touch screen device such as an iPhone or BlackBerry Storm (like I have), it’s touch screen friendly. I like it!

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Color Me ImPRESSed

mero — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:15:36 +0000

I’ve been running the newer version of D6 on WordPress since about version 2.2. Each version just keeps getting better, I have to say. I love how the latest version (2.7) has the ability to upgrade itself automatically. Just log in, press a button or two, and it does all the hard work for you, right within the Admin interface of the software. This is great stuff!

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I’m Liking It

mero — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:55:39 +0000

I upgraded the blog to the newest version of WordPress, 2.5. While the experience for you, the reader, should be pretty seamless, this new version of WordPress is great on the back end. It’s a lot easier to do things now, and the WordPress interface is finally catching up to Movable Type in terms of being easy to use.

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Flickr-y Goodness

mero — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:24:02 +0000

If you haven’t ever noticed the Flickr widget that resides on the right hand bar of my page here, you may not have seen a whole bunch of photos I uploaded from a recent trip to Chicago. If you haven’t seen them (or want to see any of my mostly boring Flickr randomness), you can always check out my Flickr page.

Oh, and of course, if you have the Flickr, I love Flickr friends :).

Version 2.0

mero — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:01:29 +0000

Welcome to dimensionsix dot net, version 2.0. This was long overdue, I think. Things had changed a lot since I started d6 back in 2004. I kind of made this thing really formal, doing it more like a straight up zine rather than a blog, with articles rather than entries. When I suddenly didn’t have the time to write, well, the thing got stagnant. Plus, when I just wanted to put in a quick thought, I felt like it was out of place. So I’m changing the game here.

I’ll be doing things a bit differently. There will still be the more formal article-like entries, but I will also have lots of quick thoughts. WordPress and K2 have a neat thing called asides, which set those kind of quick post things apart, and I like that.

Anyway, welcome to d6 2.0. Hopefully, this ride will be as memorable as always.