In case you (whoever you are) have not noticed, I changed the theme running this site. I was bored last week and thought the site could look a little nicer. So I went through some themes from Elegant Themes, and found a few I liked. I setup a sub-domain for some testing, Dreamhost makes that wicked easy, and played around until I found one I liked. So far so good, the new theme looks nice, and I like how it works. There isn’t much...

So last year I picked up a second domain for myself, www.coreytess.net, more of a personal fun site, pics and things from my RC racing and other stuff. When I got that hosting I did not put it on A Small Orange (now my old host). I had recently purchased an unlimited storage and bandwidth package from Dreamhost for my girlfriend’s site, www.lovejessicaalways.com. Because that is an unlimited host, and they are very easy to work with,...

So Windows 7 is out, and the copy of Home Premium, for my girlfriend’s netbook, showed up today. I was excited, hey I’m a geek, to get this setup, and was really curious to see how painful an upgrade from XP Home to Windows 7 Home Premium would be. I played nice and did the upgrade according to Microsoft’s steps, with only 1 minor change. I started by downloading the Windows Easy Transfer utility. It was a quick download...

I bit the bullet recently and paid to join a site with some premium themes. The site is Elegant Themes, and for $20 a year you get access to a lot of nice looking themes. They have their own options and most have multiple layout and color options. The themes are very nice looking and well put together, the designer/developer did a great job here, and at $20 for a year, access to all the themes you can want to choose from, and potentially...

I made another site for myself, this more for personal stuff, mainly posting pics from my RC Racing and whatnot. This one is on a different host, Dreamhost. My girlfriend’s blog runs there, and with just about everything is unlimited, storage, bandwidth, etc… No offense to A Small Orange, but I kind of like them better now that I have spent time with it. Dreamhost has a lot of stuff built into their web panel that just makes...

I’ve been busy working, both for my job and to finish learning what I need for Ruby on Rails. I’ve been spending some time with Ruby on Rails again, now that the books have mostly caught up to the version 2 and 2.2 stuff, it’s making a lot more sense. I do find it a little funny that as soon as the books come out for 2.0 and 2.2, they drop 2.3 on the community. I haven’t looked at it much, but hopefully it...

I recently setup a new blog for my girlfriend using Wordpress, on a different host than this one (great deal I couldn’t pass up). We were looking for themes for her quilting and crafting site, and found some pretty good blogs and resources beyond the typical one, the Wordpress theme directory. First was a blog called ThemeGrrl, as the name and title suggests it is for more feminine themes, but since this was my girlfriend’s...