Category: website things!

Wow it’s been a long time…

(brushes away cobwebs)

Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted an update here, if anyone’s been looking for something new, I apologize. I have been very busy at my new (well, not so new now) job, and I’ve been fighting a nasty weeks-long bout of bronchitis, but I still should have posted something, if nothing more than a “still alive, nothing to say” post.

I guess I’ve been hanging out on Facebook too much in the interim, posting pictures and interacting with folks. If my blog was more popular I’d likely be spending more time here interacting with people, but that’s not really a good excuse. I’ll try to be more diligent, at least to let folks know I’m still alive…

Not a fun week, website-wise

angryThe server that hosts both my websites at Dreamhost had major problems last week and this week, and they’ve had to spend time transferring all data from the old server to the new one, which has caused my sites to be either unavailable or terribly bogged down. I’m still having problems, not being able to update new WordPress plugins and themes, which may still be because of the server restore (ongoing as I type this) or possibly something got hosed in my files while being restored. Either way, it’s been frustrating, not even being able to tell why my sites were gone.

It looks to be more stable now, but there are no guarantees that this site won’t go away again.

At any rate, I’m back for now. Those of you reading this in the US, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone else, eat some turkey, it’s good for you!

Been a bit too busy to blog…

Between workload on my project and trying to work up my portfolio with photos from my great-nephew’s wedding, I have been only sparsely blogging. But, that’s going to improve soon, as my role on the project ends Monday, and I’ve finished with the wedding photos (but not the others which I have yet to move from here).

I don’t have anything else to write about right now, but feel free to go check out my portfolio site, where I’ll be occasionally posting or moving photos as I get to them. I’ll be on the lookout for more fun and unusual stuff when I start wandering the ‘net again!

Katsucon photos have moved!

I have moved my photos from Katsucon 2012 and 2013 over to my new portfolio site, Lexonia.net

I have gone in and cleaned up a lot of them using Adobe Lightroom, and I think I made them much better, plus I added quite a few to the 2012 photos!

Here are the links to the photos on the new site:

Katsucon 2012
Some random con scenes
Cosplay photographers, capturing the captors =^_^=
Cosplayers I encountered
A photoshoot with some friends who love to cosplay Final Fantasy characters

Katsucon 2013
Before the convention
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

All Otakon 2013 photos

I’ve uploaded all the Otakon 2013 photos now, they’re available on my photo site. If you want to see all the convention photos, you can go to my Conventions gallery, or if you just want to see cosplayers close-up, go to my Cosplay gallery. There will be more as I move them from this site to that one, but it will take some time.

Until then, enjoy!

What? No Otakon 2013? What gives?

Well, I haven’t updated this site in a couple of weeks, last weekend I was at the 20th Otakon in Baltimore, and took a whole mess of pictures. Since then I’ve been busy working on a new website. I’ve decided to move most of my photography from this site, and make a more semi-pro portfolio site, using one of my old domains. Instead of trying to force this site into the form, either with a separate theme or try to figure out multi-site, I decided to just bite the bullet, buy a real photography theme, and build a new site. I’ll still have links from here to the new site, but the actual photos will be over on lexonia.net. Check it out!

All Nerdtour 2012, all in one place!

So, I reorganized my pages and posts somewhat, and gathered things together in a more coherent fashion! I grouped all the posts (so far) concerning the 2012 Nerdtour, and put them where they belong, under the “Things I’ve Done” link to “Nerdtour 2012“. I added sub-menus for “About“, “Preparations” and “Trip“, with posts relating specifically to each. Hopefully things make a bit more sense, or at least are easier to find!

Updated “Artwork” page

I finally got off my butt and fixed up the “Artwork” page so that it actually displays… my “artwork”! I had used an old plugin that just never worked, so I replaced it with actual links to the images on DeviantArt.com. I kind of got pretentious calling it “art”, I’ve never considered myself an “artist”, I’m just a “painter”. To me, an artist creates new things of beauty, whereas a painter recreates what he sees using paint. And I’m okay with that. I’d love to be able to create beauty using paint, but I don’t have the skills, nor the time to develop them, and so here are a few of the things that I’ve done down through the years.