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Hopefully there are no hiccups

Daniel Sato — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:28:42 +0000

I had to make my test blog my main blog and my main blog my test blog. Ever since I upgraded to the WordPress 2.3.3 I got this error message every time I made a new post:

WordPress database error: [Table 'db176943733.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = 'publish' GROUP BY cat_ID

I’m not really sure what it means, but I imagine I screwed up somewhere. So instead, I just did a new install of wordpress, moved all of my posts, comments, etc over, and renamed some directories. Hopefully this works out, not sure how it might affect old stats and whatnot.

Apparently one of the problems I now face is that all of my tags for all of the previous posts have been changed to numbers and I don’t exactly remember what tag each number actually stands for. I guess I will be trying to re-tag everything.

New Look for the Site

Daniel Sato — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:24:22 +0000

If you happen to be one of the two or three people I can think of who might read this through their rss reader, I changed the look of the site yet again. What do you think? Should I change back to the old look or is this one alright? For those interested, this theme is called Grid Focus, and the previous one was Modio.

New Look

Daniel Sato — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:49:31 +0000

As you can see, I have a new look to my blog. I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today, and as a result, was forced to look for a new template in order to take advantage of the native tagging feature (still working out the kinks in my tagging system).

I think the new template, Modio from UpstartBlogger, gives a much cleaner look, with more of a focus on my photography thanks to a rotating set of photos that appear at the bottom of the header.

I still have to figure out the best way to display my portfolio and multimedia work.

A note on the header

Daniel Sato — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:48:28 +0000

I have received a few emails about how exactly I made the header for this blog. I have to admit, I am no photoshop expert. Instead, I relied on one of the flickr toys over at flagrant disregard (now Big Huge Labs).

To be specific, I used the Hockneyizer tool on three separate photos. After playing around with each until I got the framing that I wanted, I saved each file and opened the files in photoshop. I then deleted the white backgrounds, pasted them all into one file, and deleted parts of each photo as I saw fit to make them look layered. The easiest way that I found to do this was to lower the opacity of the layer on top and then use the polygonal lasso tool to select the areas for deletion. Last, I saved it as a .png just in case I change the color of my background in the future.

100th Post Extravaganza!!

Daniel Sato — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:35:00 +0000

yay.

I’ve broken my blog.

Daniel Sato — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:22:00 +0000

Does anyone know why my white background refuses to go all of the way down the whole page? I must have screwed it up during one of the many times I disconnected due to rain and power outtages while messing with my template.

More work on the site

Daniel Sato — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:30:00 +0000

I have been fiddling again with the structure of this blog. For a while I had multiple headers, might put that back up. I added a new category system as found here. I have also added a js that lets me easily append technorati tags. I am still debating if this is better or worse than the last js which added del.ici.ous tags which are also recognized by technorati (or so I’ve come to think…).

Photoblog

Daniel Sato — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:51:00 +0000

I take a good amount of photographs throughout the week. Some are for an assignment, many are not. Some have a story behind them, most don’t. Nearly all of them are bad. As a result, I have created a photoblog to house some images. No stories, just photos (one per page, unlike flickr).

In other news, I swear I have three posts in the works that are NOT about something I created or added to the blog.