My good friend Judy mentioned in one of her posts recently that it seems many bloggers are taking a break from writing - all for a variety of reasons. She suggested that maybe we all need a NoBloPoMo (a No Blog Posting Month)...
... I might just have one right about now.
It's not that I don't want to blog or that I don't have things to say/express/share, it's more about the timing, or the lack of time I'm going to have for to blogging in the upcoming month.
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After several tedious days of working on MyKidney.com I'm happy to say that the site is just about ready for a re-launch.
My Kidney Blog is crawling back to life. I've finally had a chance to get a few things in order and reorganize the theme and sidebars.
My Kidney Blog has been offline far longer than I ever anticipated for it to be. Even though a disaster of sorts has occurred here on this site, a bigger disaster has occurred in my personal life.
Aside from this site losing more than 6 weeks worth of blog posts, I've also lost all the user accounts and most of my custom settings (sidebars, etc.) I need to have time to work on the site and get it back up and running... it just can't happen at this very moment.
I'd gladly have given away my entire website and everything in it to have my lost friend back...
2008-04-22 @ 2030 EST
OK, here's the deal - My Kidney Blog is currently under maintenance. Why?
... because the site admin (that would be me) purchased a simple Drupal theme from TemplateMonster.com that didn't function as advertised...
In order to resolve my dissatisfaction, I politely asked for a refund (they have a 100% satisfaction guarantee) and was referred to 'Paul' in tech support who would 'fix' my problem, therefore resulting in my not wanting my guaranteed satisfaction in the form of a refund.
Paul instructed me to do four simple little steps to set-up the theme properly:
1) Download the most recent version of Drupal (already using it);
2) Install the most recent version Drupal (see #1);
3) Move the purchased theme to my themes folder (CHECK);
4) Add a MySQL dump file (which he emailed me, supposedly directly from the theme's creator) to my database... (UH, CHECK... weird, but OK...)
The four simple steps resulted in a wipe of the entire MyKidney.com database (!!!!!!)
Testing correct cron job function and I need at least 10 words so the post will post!
I participated in NaBloPoMo 2007 and now I’m going for the ultimate blogging challenge from NaBloPoMo’s sister site, Blog 365: to blog every day in 2008 and to have at least 365 blog posts...
I finally got a moment to do some "tidying up" on the blog. I added a couple of Modules (points to the right, at the menu) so you can now read posts by category or from the Archive (by date).
Is anyone interested in Forums?
I'm still learning Drupal, and I admit to being frustrated at its differences (in useability) to WordPress; but all-in-all I think running Drupal will serve this site better (in the long-run) than WordPress. I still heart WP, though - see it on Krississippi.
P.S. Thank you to everyone who sent me a contact to say 'happy Thanksgiving'!
