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I’ve returned to my favorite theme k2. I have always liked this theme but there was that issue with widgets vs sbm. Now that k2 has conceded the battle to widgets (I have no opinion on which is/was better…etc.) and has removed the sbm code I feel more comfortable using this as my primary theme. Over the summer I’ll do some customising.

Here is my New Year 2007 posting.

Ok. So, I’m going to do it. My new year resolutions. Committing them to blog will give me the ability to review them periodically rather than “conveniently” forgetting them. In no special order.

1. Finish the MS degree program. (Only one course remaining. I’ve procrastinated long enough!) ¡Result: Done!
2. Finish the tool shed. Result: Not Done
3. Finish the bookcase in the sun room/study. Result: Not Done
4. Begin remodeling my home office. Result: Not Done
5. Use Linux as my primary OS. Result: Partially there
6. Refine photography skills. Result: Ongoing
7. Work on and strengthen relationships. Result: Still working at it
8. Be serious and intentional about my faith. Result: Still working at it

I’ll try to do a quarterly update Result: Not Done

Well…not so good.

Finally. I need to pay attention to this blog much more than I have in the past. I have been experimenting a lot and not adding much content. This year I will concentrate on the content.

I will be updating the theme. I like my first theme “musyoka” so I plan to modify K2 to look like “musyoka” with respect to colors and font style.

[October 16, 2008]
Regardless who wins this will be an historic election. However, I am very disappointed with some of the campaign strategies on both sides of the isle.

Negative campaigning is very distasteful. It is like playing the dozens If you don’t know the dozens you are probably not black. But it is when you dis your opponent through put-downs of their character, their person or their family. Take one little thing, pull it out of context, amplify it to suit your own needs and then talk about it in a disrespectful tone. Written out like that it doesn’t sound so good. Listening to that stuff (from both sides) either deceives you into believing a partial truth or in some cases a complete lie; or it seems so blatant that you wonder how anyone can believe it. And, suffice to say that what people believe is very much influenced by what they are told.

[November 4 2008]
I am so amazed at this election. Never would I have believed that a black man would have the potential to be elected to the highest office in the country where I was born. The country where my ancestors had few individual rights. The country that is my home even though there were times it felt inhospitable. I am so happy about this I can hardly contain myself!

I just finished the migration to Drupal. Now I can concentrate on learning and enhancing Drupal on this site. I am amazed with how powerful Drupal is. So many modules have been created it is very difficult for someone new to get a handle on which modules should be used in a basic site. I understand many modules depend on the purpose of the site but some (like cck) should be included in any site.