Glad you made it, happy to see you here. Hopefully you will find something interesting.
Right, so nothing I do seems to get the formatting to come back to this page (or any page). SO, I have bold and italics set on all dates so you can find them!
June 24th 2010
I’ve decided to swap out my not yet done Linux software page for a page on Android software, and will be making this change either this weekend, or sometime during next week, as I have been spending a lot more time with my android device than using my linux desktop.
Also, if you have not noticed, I have switched website themes to the new WordPress 3.0 default to see if I can get my formatting back and to setup multiple blog posting pages (so I can blog to my Android Software page as well as this page, instead of just adding a new post at the top).
I’ve decided to swap out my not yet done Linux software page for a page on Android software, and will be making this change either this weekend, or sometime during next week, as I have been spending a lot more time with my android device than using my linux desktop.
Also, if you have not noticed, I have switched website themes to the new WordPress 3.0 default to see if I can get my formatting back and to setup multiple blog posting pages (so I can blog to my Android Software page as well as this page, instead of just adding a new post at the top).
June 19th 2010
It has been brought to my attention that the mobile version of the site is displaying php code, I am looking into resolving this issue, as a temp fix, you can just view the standard mobile version of the site from the link at the bottom of any page. My day today is a bit full, so I probably will not get around to fixing the formating issues today (as mentioned below, it’s going to take a while, I have to go in to each page and hand write all of the HTML code for every page and post on the site.
June 13th 2010
I still cannot get the formatting to work correctly on this site; however I have found a pain in the butt solution, I can go through and HTML code the entire post on each page, one at a time to fix it. this may cause issues on any page that has embedded photo’s or videos. So, check out my posts on the Sprint HTC Evo 4G, so far it is 5 posts long, I just need to post them and spell check and tag and create reference links, so I will most likely be putting about 2 (+/-1) up per day until they are all up. Enjoy, later this coming week I will start restructuring all the posts on the site to have manually coded HTML formatting so it will be easier to read them. (I might go ahead and do it on the Evo posts while I am putting them up, depending on how much time it takes)
May 14th, 2010
Something finally went my way! after days of trolling the internet, I got Appcelerator’s Titanium Developer Desktop 1.2.1 working in a 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 Virtual Machine, next stop to try and get it running on an x64 Ubuntu install. I am really getting ticked off with the formatting issues, and I may try switching website themes to see if it fixes it (I might have caused the formatting issues when I was trying to resolve the header issue at the end of April (see below, I had 2 links on the main menu up top that both took you to this page and I edited out one of them from the css code for this template)), as I am tired of crappy looking pages and I think it is all my fault. After I play with the x64 Titanium install, I’ll post some thing (maybe a big complaint about something I can do nothing about but complain, or I may find something more constructive…) I’ll go ahead and play with the themes (most likely monday-wednesday time frame). Until then, enjoy my horribly formatted text blocks!! (want to see the worst one? go look at my new post and check out what it did to the text around the screenshot!!!)
May 10th 2010
well, I am still not getting any formatting on my blog posts, still have no idea what is causing it, but I am severely PO’d about it. I’ll start posting again and just pretend it’s a non-issue for now… I have been working on some of my PC issues and resolved a couple, I found that IF I set my SPU to specifics in the BIOS they are forced on the system after boot (auto-disables AMD’s Cool ‘n Quiet features) so this is not good.
Next I learned that if I up my voltage on the NB to 1.25V I can run my on-board GPU at the card’s default standard speed of 700MHz (by default my MB was setting it to 497MHz, or 500MHz equivalent based on multipliers), so that is really good news, upped my windows 7 performance score by .2 (just a shame I do not run Win7 by default, which leads me to my next point…) If I want to overclock my CPU any, I have to do it from within the OS so as to keep AMD CnQ enabled, well… AMD OverDrive is a Windows exclusive app, so I will have to search for a way to do it in Linux without the 1st party app.
I have also semi-resolved my random power offs (due to “overheating”) by disabling my ACPI system auto-shutdown feature, I now keep a temp monitor open on my desktop at all times (looking for a linux/KDE plasmoid that will display individual core temps, the default KDE plasmoid for system temp only shows the temp sensor that is on the cooling fan “on top of” the heatsink for the CPU. AMD OD shows the internal individual core temps… but my system is not going over 57C even after I overclocked it 800MHz to 3.997GHz (but I dropped it back to 3.795GHZ to be safe since my auto-shutdown is disabled). I was also able to boost my Hyper-Transport from 200MHz to 220MHz with no issues while playing DDO for 2.5 hours, but later while surfing the internet my PC crashed… So I dropped it down to 205MHz and it is stable (again only when booted into Win7) and have had no further issues, sitting pretty at 38C-47C per core.
I have been using KUbuntu 10.04 for software and hardware compatibility issues while I wait for Fedora 13 to launch next week, so you may notice several Ubuntu 10.04 based posts here for a bit. I will try and post my experiences setting up KUbuntu some time this week, I took notes, but did not write it up yet.
April 28th 2010
I updated the header to get rid of the silly “Home” link, which just takes you here, thereby being a duplicate link, and causing all the pages to not appear in the list. Everything is there now; however I did have to change “Bits of Random Knowledge” to “Random Knowledge” and “Life Happenings” to “Life Happens” in order to get it all to fit. I am ok with the first change, not happy about the second, I’ll probably try to put that back here in a second and then I’ll cross this part out. :) This does not affect links at all. The pages are all still stored in the same place and with the same file names as they used to be. OK, adding the “ing” back didn’t disrupt the spacing, so now I am happy. Of course nothing ever does what it is supposed to, I have now lost my spacing between posts on this page… In fact after checking the html code, I have lost all formatting codes on my page, granted I have not learned any new html since 1996-1998 era, but it should still work! right, now not even the buttons on the posting toolbar stay when I save (ie strikeout/bold/italics). This should not be! it was working before, I have not changed and WordPress settings, why would it just stop working? I may just have to manually edit the page on the server and just not edit it in WP anymore, which is stupid.
Apparently changing from WYSIWYG mode (“What You See Is What You Get” for those younger people reading here), which is called “Visual” in WP, to HTML mode (you better know that one…) or vice-versa automatically deletes any HTML code you might have on your ENTIRE page/post. This is apparently also considered a feature by some idiots over at WordPress.org. (Hello stupid, boy I hope you read this too, they even include a button on the tool bar labeled “remove formatting” which I will take for granted that it does the same thing (not clicking that one, no way jose!).
Ok, this time I swear I did not go to HTML mode, and I STILL lost all formatting after updating the page! but at least the HTML links stuck around!?!? I have found several posts on the WP forums about this issue, but none have valid solutions for my problem, most date 3-5 years ago, some are newer.
March 12th 2010
Just a quick note… I updated the WP -> Twitter settings so everything I do is not pushed out as a twitter update, only when I do new blog posts. This should make any twitter followers happy, as I have not been posting to twitter recently and all they have been seeing is a constant stream of blog updates coming across from me. so hopefully this note here will not cause a twitter post…
March 6th 2010
Ok, so I know made some pretty big changes to the site this week, and I have an even bigger one coming up in April or whenever WordPress 3.0 makes it’s arrival. I think at that point (if everything works) I’ll be happy and let the format of the site stagnate.
Another thought I have had… I try to put links regarding everything in my posts, as I hate going to a site and reading about something and at the end realizing I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about, and to top it off they have not given me any information, or direction to go to find said information, to figure out what they are talking about. I do this in hopes that people will (of course) come back to read my posts again, but also so that if you (my few readers) have no freakin clue what I’m talking about, then perhaps you will be able to find out by following the links.
Every link opens in a new tab or window, depending on your browser settings and what browser you are using (I have not tested too many, ok I’ve only tested 2 browsers, but it should work in all of them), so you need not fear you’ll lose your place on my page by clicking on a link in one of them. Every link also has a pop-up that tells you exactly where it is going to take you. In some older posts I may have linked to the same place more than once in the same post, but in the newer posts I have tried to only link to the same page on the same site once per post, so if you see a link on the same “phrase” or word they just might go to different things related to whatever I was talking about in that particular sentence. A specific example is “WordPress” on the current version of Life Happenings, one goes to the WordPress homepage another goes to the WordPress 3.0 what’s new page, and a third goes to the WordPress 3.0 current status page.
My point here is, if I write about something and you want to know more about it, or I failed to link to something and you want to know where I got my information, please comment about it, and I’ll get the page updated.
March 4th 2010
Been having some complications with page arrangement since I changed the Blog Theme, but hopefully you can find your way around. The different pages are listed at the top and as soon as I get it working correctly, I’ll have posts on two pages based off their content. More on that later, I’m also thinking of taking all the garbage off the right side on the actual blog pages, but leaving them here. we shall see.
