{"id":80,"date":"2011-07-10T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-08-23T08:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:09:04","slug":"tech-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/tech-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded to Wordpress 3.2.0 today.\u00a0 This was the first update in years.\u00a0 Nice to know it still works!<\/p>\n<p>While I&#039;m at it, I might as well catch you up with how the &#034;uber-project&#034; is going.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 I decided to implement my own <strong>blog<\/strong> for sharing photos, videos, and information with my family.\u00a0\u00a0 There are daily posts going back to November 2009, when we moved to NZ.\u00a0 I&#039;ve also retroactively added pre-2009 vacations and projects.\u00a0 Posts can have images, videos, and comments.\u00a0 Image thumbnails automatically expand when you hover over them, which is a feature that I wish Flickr had.\u00a0 It all works pretty smoothly, and I update it almost every day, but it&#039;s private, so is worthless in terms of portfolio.\u00a0 Anyway, the existence of that blog distracted me from this one, which is why there haven&#039;t been updates here in years.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of music projects, <strong>Tripecac<\/strong> is inching along slowly.\u00a0 I gave up on expanding the Triton&#039;s sounds and instead switched to soft synths, which required the purchase of a new computer.\u00a0 Fatherhood has restricted my time dramatically, so I&#039;m not churning out 5+ albums a year like before, but if I can do at least 2, and have some decent songs in there, I&#039;m relatively content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trex<\/strong> has recently dominated my time.\u00a0 I&#039;ve digitized all the tapes, and am currently working on editing and making CDs of the 2007 recordings.\u00a0 Once I finish that, I will be almost done; there&#039;s only an hour or two of stuff from 2008 and later, plus the possibility of extracting songs from videos.\u00a0 I look forward to finally finishing the Trex project; hopefully it will be by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve also updated the CSS for all my <strong>web sites<\/strong>.\u00a0 They are a lot more uniform now, and look more modern.\u00a0 I still need to normalize their urls and add Web 2.0 features like commenting and RSS feeds, but first need to decide whether to convert them to Wordpress or a similar CMS.\u00a0 So I&#039;m looking at other sites and researching best practices.<\/p>\n<p>I have an idea for a blog and a <strong>podcast<\/strong>, but will need to solidify a plan before moving forward.\u00a0 And I&#039;d like to finish the <strong>Trex<\/strong> project first.\u00a0 Right now I don&#039;t have enough time to move forward on all fronts and still be able to smile at people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded to Wordpress 3.2.0 today.\u00a0 This was the first update in years.\u00a0 Nice to know it still works! While I&#039;m at it, I might as well catch you up with how the &#034;uber-project&#034; is going. In 2009 I decided to implement my own blog for sharing photos, videos, and information with my family.\u00a0\u00a0 There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[26,25,23,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}