Still having problems adding a photo to my gravatar account

  • July 27, 2007
  • James Skemp
While I've been able to create an account, and upload an image to that account, I can't seem to be able to associate that image with my Gravatar account. Somewhat troubling, especially since support doesn't seem to want to get back to me ... A couple of days ago I decided to sign up, but if this is what I can expect, I'm glad it's a) free and b) that I've turned it off for my site.

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BlogEngine.NET 1.1 Theme - Swan Dive

  • July 25, 2007
  • James Skemp
Updated for BlogEngine.NET 1.3! Update 8/16/2008: This theme should work fine on BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 or lower, using the 1.3 link. I'm proud to present a theme for BlogEngine.NET (tested with 1.1) called Swan Dive. This theme is based upon the template of the same name by Homefront Studios, and made available on Open Source Web Design. While this is technically my third theme for BlogEngine.NET, it's the first for public consumption.

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Helpful Dreamweaver regular expressions for BlogEngine.NET

  • July 21, 2007
  • James Skemp
While looking for posts, in the App_Data/posts directory, I needed a find and replace for the title of the posts.  It's a simple query, and here it is: <title>[\s\S]*</title> Note: This post is probably more for me than anyone else ;) 

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WordPress 2.2.1 Import/Export function problems

  • July 18, 2007
  • James Skemp
I had the 'opportunity' today to import a WordPress blog from one server to another. While WordPress 2.2.x no comes with built-in functionality to export, and then import, an XML file, I've found that it's anything but simple and trustworthy. It seems that there may be a built-in limit to the amount of posts that can be imported. For me, I had to do an initial import (the XML file was approximately 2.

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BlogEngine.NET 1.1 released

  • July 16, 2007
  • James Skemp
I'm really excited about this (since it fixes a few bugs that have had an impact on me). Find out more at www.dotnetblogengine.net/ Now that 1.1 has been released, I'm going to be actively looking at theme creation; I've got mine, of course, but I've got some ideas for others as well.

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BlogEngine.NET Theme - StrivingLife (almost done)

  • July 14, 2007
  • James Skemp
I've almost completed converting the WordPress theme to a BlogEngine.NET theme. The only hard part is when BlogEngine.NET (or ASP.NET) restricts write access to the CSS file. In these cases I have to tweak the CSS file using Firebug. It's a bit of a chore, since BlogEngine.NET compresses the CSS file so much (which is a good thing, in the long term), but since I'm also changing the file locally in Dreamweaver, it's just a matter of copying and pasting (over the Firebug CSS content).

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BlogEngine.NET - now used by StrivingLife

  • July 13, 2007
  • James Skemp
With a new host, comes a unique move. Previously I was using WordPress, since I was hosted on a Linux (shared) server. Fortunately, I've decided to move to a Windows VPS, since the month of June was full of either slow down, or completely down, times. Since I don't want to install PHP and MySQL (which I would want to pay for the external dbs anyway), I've decided to switch my content out of WordPress.

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[Personal] New glasses

  • July 12, 2007
  • James Skemp
After a good number of years, I've finally got new glasses ... I don't know how long I've had my previous frames, but I believe I put two different lenses into them. Part of the reason is I don't care too much about my glasses - I just want glasses that work. So, I went to Lenscrafters and worked with Candace (sp?), and with some assistance from my sister, I picked up two pairs; one pair of regular, and one pair of sunglasses.

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The new Striving Life Network

  • July 2, 2007
  • James Skemp
StrivingLife.com is now open for business. It's very basic at the moment, but ... eh. Now I've just got to start migrating the sites over to the new server ...

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See ya, Ubuntu!

  • June 26, 2007
  • James Skemp

Ubuntu 7.04 - see ya later.

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