HerdingChaos

So I have moved into the modern era with my treo. I upgraded my old trusty 300 for a new 650. It is working well so I thought I would try posting from it. This post was made via my treo650.

I have not been keeping up with my blog. I have only this to offer as an excuse.

I got home from work today at around 7:30pm. After giving me a hug and a kiss Tracy told me: "You know what daddy? I wish daddies didn’t have to work."

Me too.

I have not updated to blog in forever. I have not seen my kids as much as I want to. I have not had too many chances to do any photography. I have not been on my bike since… uhm. wow! I just looked in my log and I have not been on my bike since 4/26. wow.

This stops tonight. Tonight I ride. 

I have not posted in way too long. I have been working way too much. I am however getting ready to take some time off and I am looking forward to that. So maybe I will get some inspiring stories while not enduring death by power point.

In other news, I joined livejournal today. Not to worry my faithful reader! I just pointed them to this blog. I only joined so I could read friends only posts from my friends or something.

Home after traveling for a couple days + 74F and blue skies + convertible + SUM41 turned up two notches past distortion = Airport parking garage to home in 24 minutes.

We seem to have fixed the server problems with some different hardware. So now we need to diagnose the old busted hardware and fix it.

I do plan on catching up on posts. I have quite a few in my head that I just need to sit down and put to bits and bytes.

While getting ready to post this I noticed that as of a couple of days ago, herdingchaos.net is one year old.  

We have had some server problems. They are still around and we plan to swap out some hardware soon. Trying to fix the hardware problems has taken most of my free "computer" time. So I have not had a chance to post a few things. They are queuing up and I plan to catchup soon.

I added a cool weather gizmo to the bottom of the sidebar. I put that in there for you Becky. So you would feel warm when you look outside and see all the snow.

The default header image for this theme did not fit with the title or subject or anything on this blog. It looked nice, but I wanted something that fit more with the subject matter or at least the title of the blog.

I googled around for large images of chaos. I did not find anything I liked. I switched the search term to fractal. Wow. There are some really cool fractal pictures out there. I spent way too long just paging through all the fractals. Then I found phidelity.com. You need to go by and check out this site. I really love the layout and the content. Best of all, it is running open source and everything is covered under creative commons.

I have always been a fan open source and free software. I have committed code to quite a few GPL programs and I always love giving something back. I wish I was as talented an artist as Kris over Phidelity. Check out the sand circles!! Way too cool.

I downloaded the dripples 6 fractal from the picture gallery and modified it a bit. It is now the niffty new header image for the blog. I swear the bathroom looks just like that picture after trying to clean the kids in the bathtub. Well, not exactly… there is more toothpaste and shampoo and just a little more chaos.

I have been looking at all the themes available for wordpress and trying to decide on one. I picked this one. I hope you like it (listen to me go on about someone else liking it… I have a readership of one, and that includes me:P ). I think I will eventually learn more about css and php and work on making one all my own. But for now I really like the work that has been done at wpthemes.info.

I also just turned on the permalinks feature on wordpress. Click on the title of a post to see the results. The URL’s for the post used to just be a post ID going into a script. I like the permalinks much more.