Archive for the ‘Site’ Category
Site news, updates, lamenting about spam; also if it’s only part of a post about something totally else.
Vrrrooom (Site Update)
Considering the posting speed of the past years, I’ve done a virtual Speedy Gonzales since January 1st, getting this site switched over to a new framework and tweaking it here and there. This is just a quick update to also let those readers who access this site via a feed reader know about some changes [...]
Going “Elemental” … in 70 Minutes!
A very happy new year to all you faithful readers, if you happen to be “Google noise” or not. For me, personally, 2009 was a good year in regard to getting some excellent new releases, reissues and awesome boxed sets and I do certainly hope that 2010 won’t fall far behind. If you are reading this via your feed reader of choice you should maybe drop by quickly to have a look at the new livingwithmusic.com. Yes, new (once again).
Shortly before the Christmas holidays, which I spent with my parents in our rather cold and rainy former capital, I was literally tripped up by “Elemental”. Sounds mysterious, but it wasn’t. While desperately searching for a Wordpress theme that is updated regularly, has a rock-solid base and good support, “Pro Theme Design”, the makers of “Mimbo Pro”, suddenly popped up on my screen and, to be quite honest, a small 454px x 284px partial screenshot of “Elemental” hooked me before I had a chance to breathe.
Observations 10-2009
It’s been a while, sadly enough, but if you have followed the erratic course of this website over the years, it probably didn’t come as a surprise at all. Real life just has a way of continually getting in the way all the time, especially if you have both a stressing day job and an extended family rife with illnesses and diseases. We’re all not getting younger and, boy, ain’t that the truth. What I used to pile onto my desk for a night’s worth of work today takes me a week and my energy line seems to have someone leeching off it continuously. At the moment, when I seem to have the time to sit down and write or update this or that, I’m just too tired, throw on some mindless BluRay disc … and pass out before the studio’s logo has had enough time to pop up on the screen.
Observations 04-2009
Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Ian Gillan and …
My musical life has been picking up quite a bit lately after having been in a bit of a limbo for all too long. As you might recall, I wrote about not having bought anything for quite a while – and I’m planning on keeping that up – but [...]
Observations 02-2009
For the first time in 2009, I had a look at the statistics for this (rather lifeless) site and, alas, I have more readers than ever before. My Google page rank even increased (go figure). I guess it’s the “curse” of any site that was once updated more or less regularly to get all comfy [...]
Wordpress 2.5.x a Major Disappointment
Yes, I had another post first planned and then ready, but my change to Wordpress and then upgrading to 2.5 and 2.5.1 has been such a nightmare that it has negated each and every reason why I changed over to this “blogging” platform in the first place. It seems as if every fix that is [...]
Picking up speed …
Well, livingwithmusic.com has been online again for a little over a week and things are beginning to run smoothly … finally. There have been – and continue to be – a couple of bumps in the road to full functionality, but although I am, perhaps, the only German without a driver’s license, I still have [...]
WordPress: Spam Magnet
I should have been prepared for it – and I was (… sort of) – but I was still completely taken aback by the huge amount of spam version 2.0 of this site attracted within minutes of having been switched live. I’m not kidding you when I say that within the first hour or so, [...]
Version 2.0
Actually, this is version 6 or 7, but I lost count. All that does count is that I’m done and can finally switch this thing to a “live”state.
I’ve covered the problems I experienced – both health and web design wise – previously, so I won’t go into all of that again. Suffice it to say [...]
Version 2.0 Approaching!
I’ve talked about it often enough and have, also often enough, expressed my frustration with getting a new version of livingwithmusic.com out the door. I’ve whined, I’ve bawled at times, I screamed, yelled and pulled out the little hair that God had granted me for my last few decades (hopefully) on this planet. Ever since [...]