Geekology

May 1, 2013

The “New” Aerie is (A)live!

3 comments
Well, it’s been an adventure, but we’re almost all the way there. Posting this quickly just to get the word out; I’ll follow up later with a somewhat more detailed accounting of  all my screw-ups. Or not. There are still a couple things I need to finish, such as formatting the excerpts on the front [...]
Apr 20, 2013

Kestrel’s Aerie is NOT a hard-hat area

0 comments
Umm . . . about this morning’s post . . . I’m still not exactly sure what happened, and I’m not really sure how I fixed it. But as you can see, things are pretty much back to normal here. First, I realized I was not displaying the Thesis Classic theme, but the Twenty-Ten or [...]
Apr 20, 2013

Kestrel’s Aerie is now a hard hat zone

0 comments
Whoops! I’ve been working on a new(ish) theme for the site, using the Thesis template for WordPress. I’ve actually been doing that on a sandbox site, but in the course of using my FTP program yesterday, apparently I deleted some critical files from the live site.1 So . . . yeah. Now I get to spend [...]
Apr 17, 2013

Toshiba Announces Kirabook, Induces Kiralust in Blogger

1 comment
I admit it: I’m a gadget freak. If this comes as a surprise, you just haven’t been paying attention. Anyway . . . I read about Toshiba’s new Kirabook on The Verge today. (A quick Google search revealed coverage in all the usual places, of course.) The more I read, the greater my desire. Okay, lust. There, [...]
Apr 10, 2013

RSS Feed Fixed (I think)

12 comments
In case you missed it (and if you’re an RSS subscriber to the Aerie, chances are you did miss it), I kick-started the blog again on Tuesday with a new post. However, I discovered that FeedBurner didn’t propagate the new article. After a bit of sleuthing, I tracked down the culprit: It seems that Google (which owns [...]
Mar 1, 2012

First Impressions of Windows 8—From A Mac User

0 comments
Introduction On Leap Day, Microsoft made the Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 available to anyone with 3.1GB of available storage space. Within twenty-four hours, over a million intrepid—or merely curious—souls had downloaded one of the various flavors of the beta software. Both 32- and 64-bit versions were available, in several languages. The immediate reaction [...]
Feb 27, 2012

News Item: Android OS Grows 2.5x in the Past Year

0 comments
News Item: Android posts 250% year-over-year growth with 850k daily activations  As someone whose preference for a smartphone and tablet operating system (OS) is Android, this was heartening news, reported from the World Mobile Congress now playing in Barcelona. Personally, I believe the past year was Android’s boom year, because of the increasing appeal of [...]
← Older

Search the Aerie

Buy “The Saucy Chronicles”

Paperback
The Unicorns paperback       The Dragons paperback


Kindle
The Unicorns for Kindle       The Dragons for Kindle

Get Thesis!

Thesis Theme for WordPress: Options Galore and a Helpful Support Community

Acknowledgements

First, a flourishing tip of the hat to Matt Mullenweg and the entire Automattic team for giving us the wonder that is WordPress.

Chris Pearson and the crew at DIYThemes deserve a huge round of applause for the Thesis Theme for WordPress. You lot make it look like I know how to write CSS and php!

However, even with Thesis, I'd never have made the site look half as good without the fantastic, step-by-step tutorials by a wonderful Aussie lady,Amelia Briscoe at Thesis Video Tutorials. Couldn't have done it without you!

Finally (saving the best for last), the Aerie would still be gathering dust if not for the occasional poke from my dear friend, Tami Moore. Her good-natured wheedling culminated in an offer to host a guest article from me, and was the spark that reignited my blogging fires. Even embiggened virtual hugs aren't enough to express what Tami's friendship means to me.