Dusting It Off, Coff Coff

Yes, yes, Ginny Who? here.

It’s been a busy and eventful few months since our vacation in Hawaii… whoa, really. There’s a lot going on in the family (can’t blog about that) and there’s a lot going on at Holy Moly (hey, Faddah Manny is our vicar now!).

My husband David had a little contretemps with a local streetlamp the other day while riding his bike, and now sports a nifty scrape on one of his legs. He pointed the lamppost out tonight on our way back from dinner with his brother Dan and said “That’s the lamppost. I’m plotting my insidious revenge.” It’s something to do with pink paint and humiliations galore.

My new computer is running pretty, okay really quite REALLY REALLY well after I stepped back from the latest nVidia driver – I was getting something called the “Pink Screen of Death” when I’d finish watching a YouTube video or log off of Second Life and had run across references to a driver conflict on a support page. So that’s all good and fine, and I hope to be doing more regular blogging and stuff inworld and outworld again.

I tried to get the old Express App working with the Woo Tumblog plugin – this is just so I can easily blog links and photos and quotes from my iPhone, all of which are possible but not easy with the “official” WordPress app for iPhone. However, the instructions for getting it working don’t relate at all to the structure of the NomNom theme I now use (and lurve, lurve, lurve).

The church website at Holy Moly looks great, needs some updating with some content stuff Faddah Manny sent me – we’ve got videos now! I’ll be doing some better graphics on the main page; what I have now was a stopgap from back when I was under… some design constraints from above (not from Above, just… above).

Family stuff… well, things proceed with all deliberate speed (both happy things and sad things). That’s about all I can say about that. David’s diabetes ride training is going pretty well except for the evil lamppost incident, and I’m coughing my head off with a stupid spring cold that’s settled into an annoying barking hackfest. Am now on prescription meds that have worked in the past to head off the dreaded “bronchitis that does not quit even for summer, nyah nyah.”

It started a week ago Sunday, suddenly; I thought it was allergies because I’d been dusting and fooling around emptying the Roomba, because I just started coughing, sneezing, and had runny nose and eyes. Nope, it was a cold. I even stayed home for 3 days last week.

Speaking of staying home, next week I’ve got the week off, and toward the weekend, I’ll be… heh heh, blogging from a magical kingdom. And later in the summer, if things go well, I’ll start working from home (using the smallest bedroom as a home office).

Whee! Well, I’m hoping that it’ll mean that some of my “allergy triggers” from the poor air circ at work will be a thing of the past. The room has a real, openable window, and a ceiling fan. So, YAY! At least during reasonable weather, fresh air won’t be a problem. And during winter and summer, there won’t be the stuffy “bad air” triggers that have been getting worse and worse for me at work the last few years.

If the technology can be installed properly (the internal structure of the house might make the install tricky), it’s going to be really great. One of my co-workers is already working from home and loves it (another co-worker actually relocated to Phoenix and kept her same position and team, she REALLY loves it).

That’s about all there is to that. This is the public knowledge part, anyway, and I don’t know much more about it than the bare bones. Looking forward to it and hoping that there won’t be any hitches or glitches.

Woo Link Still Not Working?

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UPDATE:

Actually, it’s sort of working, because I decided put the woo_tumblog_the_title in the template after all, just not entirely replacing my title tag. And then I added the woo_tumblog_link_content just above the woo_tumblog_content tag I’d previously added.

So hey, if you click the title link, it’ll lead you to the WooThemes page. Now I just need to figure out adding a graphic to it to highlight the fact that it’s not a normal title link.

Unfortunately for WooTumblog, I did get the Press This Reloaded bookmarklet working on the iPhone somehow… it turns out that whatever page I’m on can’t have extra added cruft in the URL, such as that added by Google Reader. And even then some pages (in the iPhone only) just won’t work because some script is messing things up, but it’s pretty reliable so long as I copy some text to quote, which seems to invoke the plug-in and get the URL turned into a link.

Oy. At least it leads to more quick blogging. Which is a good thing, right? Right?

WooTumblog Support

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Added separate link “call” instead of trying to replace title… via dashboard.

UPDATE: Had to edit to add “quote” link and author to get this sort of working. Later, added the WooTumblog entry-title tag just above the woo_tumblog_content tags in posts and archives. I can live with a duplicate title, can style it differently to set it off with a link. I don’t like the Tumblr-like icon so I have icon=”false” in the tags.

UPDATE II: Getting closer, using custom title/link tag…