I am rather diasppointed that the last few months show no entries. I have not written a great deal, but there was a point where my web host lost the entire server, and my most recent backup of the database did not include those couple of entries.

A few weeks ago, my website was down for a couple of days. Little known to me, the hard drive in the the server on which I was hosted on went bad. To give my hosting provider credit, my service was back within 24 hours. However, the website was lost; no backups were available to be loaded. Fortunately, I had an almost complete backup of my posts, except for a few of my latest posts. So, I will try to get back into the swing of things. First on the list is to update my blogging software to the latest version.

I have finally tweaked everything into the exact places I want everything. A quick change to the sidebar template fixed the links, allowing them to be broken down by category. I also changed the order of the items in the sidebar; I wanted the calendar near the top and the design to not be so top-heavy.

The calendar was also a relatively simple, yet obscure fix. In order to allow the calendar to be centered, I needed to add a text-align: center; attribute to the stylesheet. What I didn’t realize is that the attribute needed to be added for the <table>, <th>, and <td> tags. Once this change was in place, the calendar behaved properly.

Thanks to all who have made compliments about my site. I really like the change, and I was hoping at least a few readers would, too.

Over the last couple of days, I have worked a great deal to work out issues with the modifications I have made to the Connections theme that I have mentioned before and had displayed on the site since I began work on the modifications.

The header image is a photo taken by a friend of mine, Sarah. She has the full versions of this and many other great nature photos at her Deviant Art profile.

I would like feedback as to the colors and the layout. I think it flows pretty well, but the sidebar might need to be adjusted. Feel free to leave comments or send email if you find it difficult to read.

If anyone knows why the CSS for this theme will not center the calendar, please send me a tip or hint.

In addition to the change in the layout of my site, I got bored with the default look of the website, so I went searching for new themes. I found this theme on the WordPress Theme Competition Blog on Alex King’s website. I enjoy the look a great deal, but there are a few tweaks that I am working on. As soon as they are done, they will be uploaded and made permanent.

I was sick of seeing the front page look miserably out of date, and I obviously have issues manually updating my site. Therefore, I have decided to condense “Adventures in Linux” and “Antics” into a single blog and place all static content into WordPress to allow easier management of the whole site.

As all three of you reading my blog can tell, I have upgraded to the newest version of WordPress, version 1.5. It has a new template and some new features, including integrated comment spam filtering. Let’s hope this new system keeps the spam in check.

Well, I have been away for quite a while. I just got my domain turned back on, since I got my Christmas check from work. It’s good to be back, and I really hope to be able to blog more often.