I upgraded my WordPress template recently and forgot to add my Google Ads back to the template. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to splice the code back in. I don’t mess with the template often enough that I know exactly what to do every time. It takes a little trial and error. In any case, they are back online.
I don’t make a killing off of the ads, but it’s nice spending money every once in a while. At the minimum, it offsets my hosting cost.
WordPress has version 2.3.2 out and I suggest you download and install the update. This version has an important security fix. As you know, updating is really painless. All it will cost you is a little bit of time.
I know it has been out for a while, but I never got around to upgrading to the new version of WordPress. Today, in a fit of productivity, I got around to upgrading. For me, the best upgrades are the ones in which I don’t notice any difference. I can’t feel any difference between this upgrade and the previous version. This is good. I’m sure if I look, for differences, I’ll find them. But why? I trust the geeks who put some hard work into writing WordPress. It’s much more than I’m capable of doing.
OK, so the only noticeable difference is this new Tags box.
I’ve been away from tech for a while. Mrs. Mata tells me that she has never seen me happier than when I worked with computers. Life and work got in the way and I wound up putting tech aside. I still have the instinct, but am lagging behind on what I could have been by now.
Yesterday, I went to BarCamp Austin II at the invitation of Jennifer Navarrete from the Morning Brewcast. I was not going to stay at BarCamp very long because I wanted to go on a bike ride in Johnson City. Once I was there, I could not leave.
I learned some things about what’s out there and where the tech culture has moved since I walked away years ago. WordPress seems to be where the community has moved for blogging. I was reluctant at first, but Erica O’Grady showed me a validation of my Blogger site and all kinds of errors popped up. Just to make it easier on myself, I decided to create this WordPress blog.
Something else I noted at BarCamp Austin was that the majority of the people present were using Macs rather than PCs. Even though PCs dominate the market, it says a lot when tech-savvy people prefer the computer in the minority. When the time comes for me to change laptops, which is soon, I’ll be going with a Mac. My current laptop can’t handle podcasts anymore. With each Windows update, it slows down more and more. I’m at the point where I can only use the laptop for doing online work. My laptop is has become a browsing appliance.
Shaine 