My site is finally accessible with “www” URLs such as http://www.walterstovall.online to reach my home page. It might seem weird that I would just now get around to that but I go where I’m drawn. I consider it a milestone in my site-build that I even care 🙂 In reality this is a little more … Read more
I ask you who wouldn’t be a little proud now? 🙂 A lot of the credit has to go to my friend Frank who shared with me this really amazing WebPageTest resource. OK so they gave me the grade and that makes me sound biased right? Well at first I got straight Fs from them. … Read more
Look at the picture of Postal Pond (above). It’s hard to tell where the water edge starts. The bottom half of the picture is the pond. The reflection is so crisp and still the camera can hardly tell. What a nice morning dew on everything. The weather couldn’t be better lately. There’s a big field … Read more
I’ve had a problem in the past where I would get error messages from wordpress when attempting to install plugins because it did not have the file system permissions it needed. I ended up setting the wp-content directory access to 777 temporarily and then reverting to 755 when done (allow read/execute only). There should be … Read more
I’ve noticed a problem in the way I manage my media library – if I don’t go out of my way to compress images to a reasonable quality level for speedy delivery, nothing in the path of execution does it for me and the images download slowly because they’re too big. I could use photoshop … Read more
I love making this ride to Arabia Mountain on my bicycle. It was a crisp fall morning. Almost cold! That puts energy in my legs. Soon I make my way down behind Martin Luther High School close to Panola Mountain. This is the start of about 15 miles of really pretty and varied geology that … Read more
The Southside Beltline Trail has been partially open for more than a year at least. While the trail remains incomplete and unpaved, the trail already stands out as a unique tour thru backyards, industry, open fields and greenspaces, all in the heart of southside Atlanta and downtown. Yesterday I rode on the trail picking it … Read more
A recent power outage that lasted for hours reminded me of how vulnerable I’ve been. I’ve had a UPS but if the power stays out and the battery dies oh well… I fixed that adding a APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 S. To sense the power I ran the included USB to the back of my … Read more
I took a bicycle ride up Proctor Creek Trail today, and visited the huge (280 acres in size) and nearly complete Westside Park. Workers are still paving some trails etc. but most of it is done. The quarry continues to slowly fill from the feed established with the Chattahoochee earlier this year. The park promises … Read more
I installed the WP Mail SMTP plugin and got my API key setup. Then it worked on the first try. First I got email at my primary account but then also sent one to a gmail account I have on the side. Congrats, test email was sent successfully! Thank you for trying out WP Mail … Read more