{"id":905,"date":"2005-11-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2005-11-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T12:00:00","slug":"the-state-of-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/the-state-of-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of this Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few problems recently &#8211; lack of internet access for a while; difficulty in formatting some postings; my RSS feed broke yesterday and I had to be in work at 4am today for some production changes.<\/p>\n<p>On the formatting, I&#8217;ve decided to change the template to make the main content wider which should make it easier to read examples. The first (potential) problem is that this may make it more difficult for some people to read &#8211; leave a comment if that&#8217;s true. The second problem is that the rounded corner graphics are completely wrong now. I have no intention of fixing this within the next few days because I have other things to do that are far more important<\/p>\n<p>1) Reading Jonathan Lewis&#8217; new CBO book which is jaw-droppingly good. I&#8217;ll post a review later.<\/p>\n<p>2) Getting my server build finished. Now that all the hard drives are working fine, my CD media is playing up!<\/p>\n<p>3) Getting some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>So, I know the graphics are ugly but I can live with that for now. Hopefully you can too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few problems recently &#8211; lack of internet access for a while; difficulty in formatting some postings; my RSS feed broke yesterday and I had to be in work at 4am today for some production changes. On the formatting, I&#8217;ve decided to change the template to make the main content wider which&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/the-state-of-this-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The State of this Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1023,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/15\/i-dont-want-to-see-html-for-a-long-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":905,"position":0},"title":"I don&#8217;t want to see HTML for a long time","date":"July 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If I'm honest, I'm sure most of my problems have been self-inflicted and my 'solution' is little more than an unsatisfactory hack but if it means I don't have to look at any HTML for a few weeks, it will do.I eventually tracked down this problem to a difference between\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1012,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/07\/blog-keeping\/","url_meta":{"origin":905,"position":1},"title":"Blog-keeping","date":"July 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been doing some house-keeping on the blog lately which is part of the reason for fewer posts.I tidied up loads of old entries last night (still a few to go) and thought I'd come up with perfect code formatting in the current template (just the one for now). 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