Bogdan`s venting place

Photography seems to be my new calling. Taking pictures, and later processing them using either Photoshop Elements or full blown CS4 can turn an afternoon walk with a camera into hours of limitless possibilities of picture composition, lighting and color effects, creating panoramic pictures by stitching many others, retouching some skin or background imperfections,   etc. Read the rest of this entry »

OK my friend.

 One more year has passed,  so you and I have added some “millage” throughout last 12 months. All Americans got new el Presidente ( I call him Obambi, since I am such a big admirer of his ), you’ve been getting used to the new title of “grandpa”, “paps”… and lovely Jennifer is getting married in July. The last one hurts a bit, since I WAS hopping that she would settle for a more mature guy, and I would be calling you “Dad” some day – with all the love you deserve, of course.

Anyway, hoping that your birthday anniversary was a fabulous one, I wish you all happiness and anything your heart may desire my friend. Stay positive and most of all healthy.  Remember, you and I are may be a bit older, but we age well, and our families, friends need us.

 The next time we meet, let’s finish the  bottle of “Goldwasser” – remember that one? 

In a meantime my friend – Happy  B-day!

- Bogdan

P.S.

To make your day a bit better, I found this little music clip.  I hope you like it.

All of the news coming from the Wall Street, from State Department, and last election results got me into a very depressing mood. Luckily, WordPress.org announced a new version of their software.

The upgrade itself didn’t take that much time¹, and off I went into the new administrative interface. Different to be sure, but I do agree with the authors – much quicker and easier to use. I took some chances with this one, but it looks that there are no show stoppers² that would make me consider a rollback. So far, I am happy camper.³

As I was forgetting the story of the crooked investment advisor from New York» , I looked into few WordPress plug-ins. I decided to give them a “go”.

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1. Finally, I stopped fighting the basic requirements of deleting 2 directories, as the instructions suggested [↩]
2. I still remember a bad aftertaste from a 2.3.x to 2.5.x upgrade [↩]
3. UPDATE: As I was doing the “last minute” check, I discovered a bug in “AJAX Comments” module. Had to disable it, until a fix is available. [↩]