How Long Will It Last

via: http://www.newscientist.com

This graphic shows how long certain natural resources will last and when they will run out in the world if we continue at the current consumption rate.

The day I saw this I also had a conversation about info graphics, and this came up as an example.

New Home

It would appear that my change over from Media Temple to Dream Host went off without any issues. After months of slow sites, 500 errors, and complaints from users it was time to move on.

If you see anything out of the ordinary please let me know.

-Update
Demos are all presently down, They will stay down until i get them updated.
Thank you.

Updated Layout

I decided to try a more minimal approach to the front page of my site, using an excerpt instead of the standard wordpress read more link, this keeps the blog posts more uniform and allows me to have more per page.

I will also be releasing the last theme as a download; I think it should be a good example of a Grid System Blog Design.

Also make sure to use the social bookmarks on the post pages.

Let me know what you think!

New Job, New Look

I will be starting a new job on Monday working at EventIQ, I’m looking forward to it, ill have a verity of different work from Graphic Design, Service and hopefully some Development. There office is located in a really nifty old mansion the Le Marchand Mansion built in 1912.

Since I was on the hunt for a job I have also updated my site, as I’m sure you can see. I have also created a new portfolio http://www.adampatterson.ca/.

Marry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish every one a happy holidays and a safe new years!

Almost Ready

The gallery is almost ready to be public once again. Still working out some small kinks and then will clean out the old CSS classes that are now unused.

It has been a bit of a challenge trying to apply a Grid System to Gallery that wasn’t design around it. but all in all, i think i did an excellent job.

I may even upload a couple hundred new photos to the gallery. Well see how things go.

Broken Images

In an effort to restore my Site Content from various sources and Re-Importing and Exporting most of the blog images appear to be broken, not sure why, but the names don’t match. The Media Gallery appears to be empty as well.

So as you can guess this is yet another thing i am working to fix. I only wish there was a tool for this instead of going through every post and checking every image.

Lots of Fun!

Well in the process of updating the site i had a number of issues. i was getting internal server errors (500) and Media Temple told me it was because i am using Wordpress 2.7 Beta. Except its working fine on the same server on under a different domain.

I thought maybe cleaning up the chunky 30mb SQL file might help. I began by backing up my Database, and then copying my wp-content/plugins folder. i proceeded to uninstall any unused plugins and deactivating any unused plugins. once that was complete i didn’t notice any gains.

Since my SQL Export was 30 mb, i began to compare my development install database against my live database to clear up the SQL. Simple enough, deleted a few tables here a couple rows there. I made sure to reload the page to make sure everything was in order. I started to comfortable in my deleting and accidentally deleted my Category table. Oh No i thought. Then i remembered i made a back up rite before i started my cleaning. So i went into the SQL section of PHPMyAdmin but when i pasted the section of MySQL in the window i was prompted with an error. Humm. What now. SO i decide to go balls out and just wipe out the whole Database. It was a tense moment when i okayed the deletion of over 3 years worth of blog posts. But hey, thats why i backed up the DB! I close my eyes and click OK.

I go back to PHPMyAdmin and head on over to the import tab select my file luckily the zip is only 3.2mb, browse to it, upload wait a bit, and there we go, and Internal Server Error (500), so i attempt to see if anything happened, see a few tables were created so i delete the last incomplete table and start over. Now i get an error, things are not looking good.

What now? well i head over to my Dev install and luckily i had imported all data by using the Wordpress import/Export Tool. FYI only a 3mb XML file.

Were does this leave me? well all content, comments, images, Categories, and Links were imported, there were only two small snags. Post Tags came across as numbers, neat but not usable, and link categories were nill, so i have to re-tag posts and re-categorize my links and then all is well.

Oh yes, My Wordpress install works fine now.

Lots of things are wonkey.

Please feel free to contact me of you see any site issues, i have lost my Tags, as well as link categories. I think i have managed to Contain most of them and the site as a whole should be working Decent.

I will be working to restore everything tonight.