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’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...

Well for some reson the thing that downloaded and installed Wordpress from my host decided it wanted to get 2.6.1, and version 2.6.2 is out. We all know what that means, upgrade. Yes I know upgrading for no reason is not a good idea, but hey, I wanted to see how difficult it was (it wasn’t), and what needed to be done (not much). So now the blog is version 2.6.2, it took all of 2 minutes to accomplish. Even though this was simple to...