Gone camping
Sat Jan 08, 2005 17:17 (UTC -5)As of this post’s timestamp, I am in a park less than five minutes away. I, my friends, am camping.
Methought this would be a good opportunity for me to test out WordPress‘s “Edit timestamp” feature, which allows me to change the timestamp on a post so that it can appear to have been posted in the past or actually show up in a future time. I already tried out the former, so in this post I’m trying out the latter. If you can read this (and couldn’t before the time of the post), it worked. It should be helpful when I have some things to write about but not a computer to post them with. So long, PLAPS.
But right. I’m camping. It’s a camping trip put on every year by an obscure ministry of the church (the Family Life Ministry, I think it’s called). I went to the campout with my friends in 2002 and 2003. It’s always the first or second weekend of the year, and according to my personal experience it always just happens to be the coldest. This year it doesn’t seem like that will be so, but it’ll probably be the hottest then.
I, sitting here at home, just having finished writing the last post, am looking forward to the campout. It started today (yesterday) and ends on Sunday (tomorrow), but I’m not (wasn’t) keen on sleeping in a tent for two nights in a row. I wouldn’t say it’s the modern conveniences that I’d die without, but perhaps it’s an actual roof over my head.
I usually stay in a friend’s tent and not for the whole time, either, so this year is no exception. (I know there’s a word for what I’m doing, but it’s not coming to mind.) This year I’ve added to the whateverness by agreeing to come along at the last minute (not literally). But that’s what makes it more fun. For me.
So I will be (am) spending my time biking, playing my guitar (if I bring it), roasting marshmallows, sharing jokes, and photographing the scenery, all with people who make it worthwhile. It’ll be (is) a lot of fun.
Now as I relax and enjoy life, I can still answer Ask Jordon!
Tom: I am honored, all the examples of Ask Jordon are mine. How do you like WordPress so far?
Yes, when I was looking through past questions to list as examples on the Ask Jordon page, I found that all of them happened to be yours. It wasn’t anything I consciously did (in case anyone is bummed out about me not using their questions).
Though the default format of WordPress is a little too heavy for the way I blog, it’s doing fine as I’ve basically retrofitted it to match the old look and feel without adding too much crazy stuff like support for multiple users, image uploading, user-reviewed links, and other things I’d never use. I’d recommend it to anyone who has a fairly good understanding of PHP. MySQL is also required, but there’s not much to setting up the database.
Yellow Chicken: Do you use a referrers script?
No. Not one that’s easily visible on the site, anyway. If you click that weird little planet icon at the bottom of some of the pages, you can see stats like referrers, browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, and things like that. For example, here are stats for the main page. I tried using an access log analyzer program, but it was rather complicated and I felt that keeping logs would be a waste of valuable storage space.
You may remember that I once thought about writing a fantasy or sci-fi novel just to get rich. Now How to Write a Best-Selling Fantasy Novel can help me out. But those who would take the advice as tongue-in-cheek will probably appreciate it better. I’m not much of a fantasy reader myself — more like a potential writer.
