Jeremy Wright sets sail to uncharted waters
July 27, 2009
Jeremy Wright publicly announced today that he has has left the helm of b5media.
My family owes a lot to Jeremy Wright. With Aaron Brazell, Jeremy brought me into b5media, full time in this world of new media.
I’d not have made many of the friends I have today or traveled to some of the places I’ve been, without Jeremy and his dream for b5. He’s a good friend and a good man.
Times have not always been easy, but Jeremy has had the courage to make the difficult decisions that allowed my family and many others to still put food on the table. This is only due to Jeremy’s leadership and the strength of those at b5′s helm. Other companies in our market space have not been fortunate enough to have the same caliber of leadership.
Thank you for all the hard work over the years Jeremy, from all of us.
52 books in 52 Weeks
January 2, 2008
I’ve recommended Rob Miller’s plugins before. I’ve had his Now Reading plug in installed on this blog for a while but some how, in a way neither of us understood, the authors and the titles got mixed beyond my desire to fix.
While browsing his blog, I came across a 52 books in 52 weeks challenge reference. And like others, I took up the challenge.
I didn’t record many of the books I read, but I know that I did easily pass the count of 52. Here in fact are 56 books that I read since Jan 1 of last year:
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Childeren of the Mind
Enders Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Magic Street
A war of Gifts
Fred Saberhagen
Berserkers
The Empire of the East
Sara Paretsky
Bitter Medicine
Blacklist
Fire Sale
David Eddings
Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician’s Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanters’ End Game
Guardians of the West
King of the Murgos
Demon Lord of Karanda
Sorceress of Darshiva
The Seeress of Kell
Catherine Asaro
Primary Inversion
Catch the Lightning
The Last Hawk
The Radiant Seas
Ascendant Sun
The Quantum Rose
Anne McCaffery
Changelings: Twins of Petaybee
Maelstrom: Twins of Petaybee
Freedom’s Challenge
Freedom’s Choice
Freedom’s Landing
The Tower and the Hive
The Rowan
Damia
Damia’s Children
Cornelia Funke
Inkheart
Kevin J. Anderson
Eragon
Eldest
Terry Goodkind
Phantom
Ben Bova
Mars
Kate Jacobs
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Philip K. Dick
Minority Report and Other Stories
Johann Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Josepha Sherman
Vulcan’s Soul
Robert A. Heinlein
The Rolling Stones
The Star Beast
Double Star
Starship Troopers
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Variable Star
Voyagers
BTW I have since found out that the original challenge was to write and review 52. We’ll see if I can do that next year. I met the challenge I had set for myself for this year.
Cheers all!
Happy New Year everyone…
January 1, 2008
Please excuse the dust as I fiddle with a few things here!
Sorry for the down time off and of over the last 12h
April 3, 2007
It looks like my host changed their default PHP extension last night around 8pm. Whatever they did, and I’m very curious, took out WP-Cache 2. I just got a blank site any time the plugin was enabled. It didn’t matter if I cleared the cache or even recreated its directories. I’ll diagnose it later, but for now I’ve moved myself over to a different install of PHP.
Let me know if you see any issues.
Update complete – 5 blogs – SQL backups and file tarballs – 15 minutes
March 31, 2007
All looks good. Let me know if you see anything wrong.
MENTAL NOTE 6743: After update your blogs, do not freak out when the version at the bottom of the page doesn’t change. You simply did not clear your cache via the WP-CACHE plugin. Chill!
All sites updating to WordPess 2.1.3 RC
March 31, 2007
Hang on for the ride!
wordpress-2.1.3-RC3.tar.gz
Server might be a little slow. And I’m walking away for a bit. It’s nice to be able to do this and get full back ups with 30 seconds of effort…
Sorry for the down time!
March 9, 2007
The website functioned PERFECTLY as long as you were logged in! HONEST!
Anyway, Lloyd, Cindy and Joe EVENTUALLY convinced me that they really weren’t insane. Even my wife told me she got an error on the site, I just thought it was her IE6 gagging on a media file as it is prone to do.
And people think programmers are making it up when they say “Well, it works fine when I do that…”
But hey – what’s 10 hours of down time amoungst friends… Sheesh…
PS. For the record DO NOT use Anarchy Media Player Plugin 2.0 Beta with version 2.1.2 of WordPress… Stick with 1.6.5 even though you don’t get buttons on the editor any more. Or you will get the behaviour I did. I’ll diagnose it later.