First, much of the last months have been devoted to preparing for the birth of my son. Born almost a month ago now…healthy and happy! Preparation consisted mostly of reshuffling a large percentage of our belongings to make room in the house for his stuff. He doesn’t take up much room…but his stuff does.

Along the same line, we’ve decided we don’t have enough room in our current home to live like we are for very long. Don’t get me wrong, we feel blessed to have a home at all. But the fact is, between having a home work space for two adults and space for two kids to sleep and play, our 1200 sq ft home is feeling a little cramped right now. Therefore, we’ve been preparing our house for market, and saving a down payment.

If that’s not enough, I accepted a new position at Tyler Technologies about two months ago. I’m now in a management role as the Product Manager for the Special Projects Team. This has been an exciting challenge so far. I love making decisions and being the guy who’s responsible for making sure projects get done and stay on track.

This is the “catch up” post. Stay tuned for more….

Done. Now I just need to find time to refresh.

• Alexandria Architecture
• Ashbury Welcome
• Durango Research
• Mallow Buzz 1
• Manhattan Finance
• Marseilles Café
• Modena 1
• Oslo Atmosphere
• Oslo Finance
• Shanhai Tech
• Super Modena Bros.
• Manhattan Veggie
• Taipei Monkey
• Marseilles Breakfast
• Manhattan Smilies 2
• Dresden Atmosphere
• Alexandria Atmosphere
• Blinksale
• Manhattan Metroplex
• Manhattan Symbol
• Dresden Tournament
• Farewell Snow
• Ashbury Menagerie
• Modena Alfanumerico Cool
• Taipei Night Market
• Tower Grove Promendade
• Anaheim Alert
• Helsinki Hi-Fi
• Tower Grove Elementalist
• Taipei Plastic Primate
• Manhattan Smilies 1
• Taipei Buddies 1
• Taipei Buddies 2
• Manhattan Night Life
• Mallow Buzz 2
• Shanghai Tech Smilies
• Oslo Easter
• Pumpkin Eve 2
• Mallow Symbol

I am seeking the following icon sets:

• Modena Alfanumerico Molten
• Modena Simbolo
• Shanghai Tech Vector
• Shanghai Toolbox
• Tower Grove Melee
• Groom Lake Invasion
• Pumpkin Eve 1
• Alexandria Cosmonauts
• Kyoto Auto
• Turkey Hunt
• New York Noir

* indicates icon sets I really want!

Post your email address and I’ll send you what you ask for. If I don’t have it, perhaps others will. You can send deliveries to me to:

Shane Shepherd
shane [at] fariswheel [dot] com

7:15pm – maintenance begun
8:30pm – maintenance and testing complete

Update Progress

[following these instructions]

• 12:40 pm – Downloaded and extracted WordPress package
• 12:43 pm – Database backed up
• 12:44 pm – Site Files backed up
• 12:45 pm – Backups Verified
• 12:46 pm – All plugins deactivated
• 12:47 pm – Verified all initial steps complete
• 12:52 pm – Began deleting old WordPress Files (see you on the other side! *crosses fingers*)
• 1:06 pm – New WordPress files loaded; ran Upgrade
• 1:10 pm – Updated Permalinks and .htaccess
• 1:12 pm – Activated “Author Highlight” plugin and verified that it was functioning correctly
• 1:18 pm – Activated “Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer” plugin and verified that it was functioning correctly.
• 1:20 pm – Fixed broken link to image (I’m assuming this was caused by the permalinks)
• 1:21 pm – Discovered broken link (/Laboratory/)
• 1:25 pm – Found the cause of the broken link…there is already a directory called “laboratory”…so permalinks don’t work
• 1:30 pm – Changed directory that was causing the problem and fixed links
• 1:40 pm – Discovered issue with html encoded text – WP 2.0 reformats encoded text into plain text…which breaks my code blocks when I edit a page or post containing html encoded text. I hope there is an easy workaround for this!
• 1:46 pm – Tested comments

Success!

It took about an hour overall to do the entire process including backup and debugging afterwards. Some of that time isn’t real fair to count though because I didn’t have permalinks enabled before and that was the main issue I had to debug. If you notice anything broken, please let me know. I’m out!