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Breaking a few Eggs

photo of white eggs on tray

Hopefully will have an omelet and not a mess. I am reworking the entire site over the next few days – please be patient and Contact Me if there are any major issues … Update 14-August-2023: So … The update completely corrupted my gallery sections. While that may seem like an “ungood” outcome, in the […]

Online Photo Galleries

Online Photo Galleries - Love_Locks_III-John_P._Hoke

Setting up and maintaining online photo galleries, aka “Frustration, Annoyance and Chaos”. As this is predominately a blog for my photography (photoblog), you would think I have a clue on how to best do this. You would be wrong. I started this photoblog years ago, and things grew organically. By this I mean it just […]

WordPress Updates and New Look!

Website Redesign Wordpress Themes Header

I spent a few days of this COVID-19 crisis sitting in front of the computer and rebuilding a lot of this blog’s WordPress front end. The prior theme was nice looking but I was starting to find issues with its speed. Ultimately, it was just easier to gut and redo it than fix. I also […]

Virtual House Cleaning

Cleaning Service (Illustration)

Rejiggering the site (a.k.a. virtual house cleaning 101). Now that I’ve gone and changed a ton of crap on the website, go the start of an online shop going for my photos, and did it all without pulling out my hair, it is about time that I go through the hard parts of this process… […]

New Year, New Look

So, first of all, Happy New Year! I took a fairly long break from blogging in 2019 … it was a hellacious year for me personally and professionally. Lets just leave it at that. I was quite bored with the old theme, the layout, the hassle of keeping it functional, and it completely turned me […]

Testing New Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Half Speed Ahead by RyanRenaissance - Used with permission Creative Commons License http://ryanrenaissance.deviantart.com/art/Half-Speed-Ahead-128867293

CDN (Content Delivery Network) and the Need for Speed So, I host my blog and other websites with Hosting Matters, the folks have been great to me over the past decade and prices I have locked in are absolutely phenomenal (seriously – they are great). As with anyone who is on a shared hosting plan, […]

Site Upgrade – WordPress 4.6, Plugins & More

Upgrade: Maintain Speed

Upgrade – Maintain Speed! Installed the WordPress 4.6 upgrade, as well as a couple other changes and tweaks this evening. Firstly, updated the backend to the current version. This caused its share of issues with a couple plugins – so I chased down a few more updates and re-applied further custom tweaks I’ve made to tie a few […]

Saturday Morning Ride

Jack-O'-Liner

The return of the Jack-O’-Liner This morning, Jen and I went out for breakfast at Cherry’s Sunset Diner in Kresgeville, then for a ride up and around the Poconos and Lehigh Valley… with all the travel I’ve been doing this summer, it was great to finally get out on my custom Stratoliner / Jack-O’-Liner and just ride with […]

WordPress Upgrade to v4.3

The operation completed successfully???

The only thing we have to fear … … is not having a good, complete, usable backup! But luckily, so far, things appear to have gone fairly well. I am now upgraded to WordPress 4.3 and well… nothings gone sideways yet – but the night is young. If you happen to see any gremlins or […]

Share a Coke with a Blogger?

I brought this bottle home from Budapest and I thought it was hilarious (and fitting) – Or it could just be that it’s 8pm and I’m hitting the jet lag wall trying to stay awake until 10 so I don’t wake up at 3am again tomorrow … Either way – share a Coke with me 🙂 […]