View from the Dock

Well, I’m happy to say the move is over. Before I recap some of my technology-oriented ‘lessons learned’ during this period of transition, I’d like to respond to some of the comments received over the past couple of months while I was not monitoring this site:
1. Reader Lek asked how to convert (or move) a [...]

UPDATE: It’s Sept. 3, and the move is almost over. We move into a new home this weekend. Now we just have to wait for our stuff and our car to catch up with us. These items will arrive, with luck, sometime before the end of October. So, it’s taken me a bit longer than [...]

I’ve received a couple of reader comments over the past few months asking if I would consider creating a lighter-colored theme. The gist of it is that the dark colors of View from the Dock are fine for short posts, but some people don’t enjoy reading the longer review articles on the dark background (my [...]

So, I freshened up the site a bit this weekend. Why? The previous design just felt too heavy, dense and modular for my taste. I think the new design is much lighter and more aesthetically pleasing. I thinned some fonts, balanced out the colors, and added some organic shapes. It’s not perfect, but I think [...]

I discovered the solution to the WordPress registration problem. You will now receive an email with your chosen user name and password when you subscribe to this site. The problem is with the last WordPress upgrade (2.3.1). With some hosts (including Bluehost, my host), this upgrade broke the auto-generated email. I don’t know why, but [...]

It just came to my attention that subscribers to this site are not receiving confirmation emails with their user name and password, which is pretty frustrating. And it may explain why no new comments have appeared for quite some time! I am trying to isolate the problem and apologize to those of you who attempted [...]