The Great Relaunching
Welcome back to the newly relaunched Jay Reding.com.
A few months ago, this site began having some odd technical problems. The template would revert back to the WordPress default. The database was starting to have random problems with the comments table. The amount of spam was overwhelming a database that had been passed around various blogging systems more times than a doobie at a Grateful Dead concert. Before things got too bad, I took the site down to try to get a handle on what was going on.
In the meantime, the site was in dire need of a new template, since I apparently can’t keep a design more than six months. There are some nifty new features — a print stylesheet in case you’ve the urgent need to contribute to the death of some trees, a special template for the iPhone/iPod which is scientifically proven to increase your hipness factor by at least .04%, and WordPress widgets which gives me the power to add all sorts of junk to the sidebar on a whim. (Which I’ve no intention of doing.)
So, welcome back. It’s nice to know that you’re missed when you’re gone. But, to borrow a quote, it’s time to get back on the horse…
UPDATE: You’ll also notice the new tagging feature, which allows you to see posts based on more specific information than the old WordPress category system.
There’s also an incredibly geeky and equally obscure sci-fi reference somewhere in this template. See if you can find it…
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Comment By Janek
October 16th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Welcome back, Jay.
I was wondering why you had disappeared. For a while I have been thinking that maybe you had converted to Communism and were unwilling to let the world know :-)
J.
Comment By Jay Reding
October 16th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Heh, you’d know that happened when you saw the pigs flying over a frozen hell… :)
Comment By Badda
October 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Is the geek reference in the font style?
Comment By Ernst Stavro Blofeld
October 16th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
How the hell do you pronounce Blaidd Drwg?
Comment By Joe Doakes
October 17th, 2007 at 8:37 am
You think the iPod is Hip? That’s so unhip it’s a wonder your buns don’t fall off.
Like the redesign, though.
Comment By Jay Reding
October 17th, 2007 at 9:16 am
And we have a winner… almost. Now, to see if anyone knows where it’s from…
Comment By Ernst Stavro Blofeld
October 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Wikipedia tells me it’s Dr. Who, but not how to pronounce it.
Comment By Jay Reding
October 17th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
And we have a winner… :)
It’s Welsh for “Bad Wolf” and it’s prounounced like “bly-th droog” (the “dd” in Welsh is a “th” sound).
Comment By Badda
October 17th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Jay,
I’m not even finding where you “hid” Blaidd Drwg. If I would have found it, I would have nailed it though! ;)
Comment By Badda
October 17th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I should add that I presume you’ve seen Mr. Saxon.
Comment By Jay Reding
October 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
If you look in the source code, it’s the name of the new template.
Does anyone hear that drumming? :)
Comment By Badda
October 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Ah, I didn’t look hard enough. ;)
Watch out for Nov 19.