redeux (updated)

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how rude! I wrote this the same night as having a fun day with the family in honor of my wife joy’s birthday!

happy birthday joy!

now…

i’m in the process of refactoring my sites. please bear with me :) i’ve been on WordPress 2.0 for ages, and just upgraded last evening to 2.6! i’ve removed a buncha crufty plugins, and looking to start from scratch as far as building a theme. i’m in the process of building up my main page (www.jonmadison.com), to feature a bit of my photography, primarily.

i figured now’s as good a time as any, as i’m transitioning back to work in Seattle, my beloved city. I’ve missed working downtown, I’ve missed taking a bus to work, and i’ve missed the folk i’ve worked with. I’ll definitely miss those whom i’m leaving at the moment (can’t think of a group i’ve worked as closely with for so many hours at a time, in a lonnnng time), moving forward by going back and doing some forward work is very exciting. ;-)

  • http://www.isaidjon.com jon

    i’m finding that wordpress makes it really clumsy to run an environment outside of the production instance–i.e. i think it keeps the “blog name” in the *database*, making it more work than it should be to run a local instance. i spent about 2-3 hours total getting my blog into SVN and getting the database setup locally, only to find out when i hit the local site, it immediately redirects to blog.isaidjon.com.

    oh well. i’ll run a local WP and work on a theme locally, then bump it up to “prod” i guess…

  • http://www.eliacin.com eliacin

    Give a shout when you are in town. It would be good to sit down and conspire.

    Paz y esperanza,
    Eliacin

  • http://www.isaidjon.com jon

    definitely man. looking forward to a sit down :)

  • http://djpphotography.com dj paine

    get the disqus plugin happening for the comments bro. it’s heaps better.

  • jonmadison

    alright DJP–i've started with the disqus plugin. the hope is that my other comments will filter in soon…they better :)

  • http://www.isaidjon.com jon

    djp — word man. will it import existing comments, or work along with them?

  • http://www.isaidjon.com jon

    nevermind–i see now–it does allow you to import your old joints.