Well, I guess its safe to say at this point.

This site has been successfully upgraded to a newer version of WordPress. Version number will not be mentioned for security purposes.

The site is now hosted by a new company. After 10 years with Brinkster, I threw in the towel. They were great as eWebCity for free ASP hosting in college. They were good when I signed up for paid hosting and bought a domain. Unfortunately, they just couldn’t keep up with my needs for today. I needed much more granular control of my site and I was able to get that with Site5.

The domain, FightingReality.com has also been moved to GoDaddy. I actually liked Brinkster’s domain hosting setup because it would auto-renew for me. I’m still not clear if GoDaddy has that option and from what I’m reading it doesn’t look like it, but I wanted to cancel and remove everything away from Brinkster and GoDaddy had the right price.

Here’s hoping this leads to more updates, more blogging, and more fun!

I have posted the pictures from my camera in the galleries here. More to come…

I have this semi-new self-imposed rule that I have to take a picture of any new toys in package before I open it. This is for several reasons. It gives me less incentive to hold on to the packaging for future reference. It also allows me to build an easy to access image archive of toys I own. At the moment, its fairly unorganized and while I do have plans for them in the future, there is no immediate need to organize them. Naturally I’m not going to be motivated to do this without a valid need to do so. Along these lines, I’ve also been considering just uploading them to this site’s gallery for more content. This would also give me the added incentive to organize the collection of images.

One of the downsides to my system is that the boxed and carded toys tend to stack up in large piles before I get the opportunity to actually photograph and open them. I have never been forced to notice this to such a degree that I have been forced to open nearly everything that I don’t already have open, until recently. As I slowly pack my room for my move September 1st, I am only just now realizing just how many toys I never got around to opening. Its a truly staggering revelation.

Time to go open some more toys and immediately pack them.

Yay.

At the request of a couple people, I updated the wishlist for my birthday.

Didn’t add much since I’m not really looking for much, but I did add a few DVD sets that I’d like. Most specifically the MASK sets. I’m really jonesing for those as I did not know they were released last year and now they are getting really hard to find. Best Buy had no sign of them when I went to look.

Wishlist can be viewed here.

In the past week or two, someone took it upon themselves to update the gallery plug-in I use.

Lazyest Gallery

I have updated the plugin on the backend and everything seems to be working appropriately thus far.

This comes just in time for Botcon, but thats a story for another post.

Enjoy the galleries!

FightingReality.com is now running at WordPress 2.5.

The good news and the bad…

Good News:
We appear to be fully upgraded. You won’t notice much on the front end, but the admin interface is completely reworked and will take some getting used to.

Bad News:
Not sure if its a bug, but I already ran into this issue. Fortunately, someone linked to a quick fix.

My gallery plug-in has fallen victim to incompatibility. The gallery is down and I am looking around for a decent gallery plug-in that functions similarly to the old one.

For someone reason, the log-in page, after logging me in, did not forward me to the admin interface, but instead just gave me a completely blank white screen. I had to manually enter in the url of the admin page.

Oh Blog. How I have abused and abandoned you.

I made empty promise after empty promise to tend to your upkeep.

I am here to make a new set of possibly empty promises to you so that you will not leave me and wander the Tubes like the orphan I have forced you to become.

It begins with a makeover.
WordPress 2.5 was released yesterday. I am going to upgrade your system. Hopefully, your little plug-in play-friends will cooperate.

Next comes the meal of content.
When I started you, oh little blog, I wanted to make you accessible to my friends who are mostly not into many of the same subjects that you and I are interested. I wanted to make the point that I was an interesting person beyond these things. No longer. I can no more deny who we are than I could go without ketchup accompanying nearly all of my meals. No more deny the random musings held inside than I could stay awake for an entire work day. I can no more deny the child-like fascination beholden to my interests than reduce my caloric intake for a day.

Prepare yourselves, netizens!

I am going to blog about toys.*

*Note: This is in addition to the infrequent and witty posts already contributed. Sure to be just as infrequent.

I updated my wishlist with some more relevant items. I put the most recent and relevant items at the top and separated the rest with a horizontal line. Anything below that line is from the past and I haven’t gone through to see if they are still relevant. I’ll get to that eventually. One thing at a time.

Clearly my new years’ resolution was not to be better about blogging…Updates coming soon…

FightingReality is now on WordPress 2.1. It is fantastically full of some new features that I’ve wanted both in this version and the previous couple I skipped. I can even do automated backups. Unfortunately the backup plugin doesn’t come default anymore so I had to manually install it. Otherwise it was a completely smooth upgrade.

I’ll most likely be upgrading Powet.TV to this version within the next couple of weeks.