Dana Seilhan

tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I

stuff and thangs

changed one thing, at least

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I really should be going to bed rather than writing inane updates, but I finally changed the About page after more than half a year. I dunno, I kind of like it. It’s based off an “about” I used on a different site with some words and phrases changed and a couple sentences added or removed. Not a lot different, just a little.

I was talking two posts ago about knowing what I want to do with this site and I’m thinking that, rather than make this a boring CV sort of site, I would make it more descriptive of various themes in my life. Sort of like a weird autobiography. I don’t have anything to brag about in the career department but there’s no reason to harp on that, really.

And since I can’t change the layout until Wednesday and I don’t want to go messing about much with organization until I know exactly where I can put things in said layout, I may as well play around with plans until then. No reason why not. I’ve got LOTS of scrap paper to use up…

goddammit, WordPress

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I’ve been using Atahualpa theme for a looooong time — at least a decade, possibly longer. I am very fond of it because the extent to which it can be customized reminds me of Greymatter, the self-hosted blogging software I used before WordPress and one on which WP is actually based. We’re old friends.

Unfortunately, WP’s new 5.5 version has broken Atahualpa. The creators haven’t bothered updating Atahualpa for a very long time and they’re not about to start now, so there is no fixing this.

I run several sites on this theme so I’m pretty pissed off.

There’s another theme called Genesis Framework which I’ve been eyeballing, also for years, which looks like it’s at least as flexible as Atahualpa is. Only problem is it’s not free, but I only pay the one time and I never have to pay for it again, plus I can install it on as many sites as I like. Unlimited updates for as long as they continue updating it. YES LAWD. It would not hurt my feelings to have this for another decade or so. Money well spent. It’s sixty bucks. I’ve spent more on Netflix and I hardly ever use it anymore. (About to cancel Netflix, too.)

So that’s probably what I’ll do. I’m really not happy with the free stuff out there and WP’s native themes frankly suck. Just the way it is.

Not gonna happen til Wednesday at least, though. SIGH.

start here

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I have started this blog section over about umpteen-billion times and I may start it over again after this, but I finally figured out what I want to do with this site and I think it’ll turn out pretty cool if I can follow through and finish. Well, sort of finish. I don’t think any website is ever really finished, it’s just interrupted if its owner dies or loses the password.

WOW, that was morbid.

I used to have a couple accounts at LiveJournal under my real name, but after years of hanging on to them hoping to do something interesting with them, I finally gave up. There is now no account at LiveJournal that has anything to do with me. I deleted both the real-names and I haven’t had any other sort of LJ for many years. The communities I ran are gone too. In case anyone I knew at LJ comes looking, this is the one post I’ll have here with a “livejournal” tag for just that purpose. Hi! Long time no see.

This blog isn’t really going to be much of a blog. I intend to use it for a sort of update-journal for things I’m doing elsewhere. I wasn’t doing much with it in the first place, so I might as well.

…Okay, that’s it for the moment. Now for the revamp. FUN.