I’ve been adding “new” blog posts with links to the galleries and other content that previously had only been listed on the site homepage. This will allow that content to show up in category searches here in the blog, which is one small step towards integrating my site content.

Each of these older galleries/pages  gets its own post. Immediately after the post is published, I am then able to edit and backdate the post to the correct date, usually to 2007 or earlier.

Depending on how you learn about updates to this site, you might see these old posts appearing over the next week or so as I knock them out. Feel free to ignore them if you’re so inclined.

Between much tweaking of the new site look today, I managed to select, edit, caption, and upload the new 12 of 12 gallery.

I’d apologize for the constant revision to the live site today, except that I don’t believe anyone other than me would be impacted. I do enjoy working with HTML, CSS, WordPress, Photoshop, and so on, so I can’t complain.

I bought a Hobitat 4 tent at a recent REI used gear sale. This tent truly appeared to be brand new, but had been returned because two aluminum poles had been split at the ends. That probably happened when a new owner had tried to put the tent up the first time. (Indoors, it seemed – there was not a speck of dust on this tent!)

The rainfly had certainly never been used, or even unfolded, all of the components were present, and the tent was spotlessly clean. Even the pole repair sleeve was there, also unused.

I easily repaired the poles myself. Comparing this to the normal price of this tent, this saved me about $175.

This post will run quickly through how I repaired the pole with the smaller crack in the end. The trick here was to make the repair without cutting the shock cord that runs through these several sections of connected aluminum poles.

The broken end of one shock-corded pole section

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Today I flipped the switch on a new Theme for this blog. I’m pretty happy with it so far, but because I only have limited preview functionality (I don’t have a test or staging server, for example) there’s still much to do. Or attempt to do, anyway. I have eight items on my list to tweak/code/hack/whatever, and I’m sure there will be more.

I’d like to work on the long-overdue revision of the rest of the site, and properly integrating it with this blog area, but I’m not sure I can dedicate that much time to the site right now.

In any case, I’d like to encourage feedback on the new look. Do you like it? Hate it? Ambivalent? Underwhelmed? Giddy and covered with goosebumps?

Give your feedback any way you like: a reply here, email, tweet, DM, Yahoo Messenger, face-to-face, snail mail, smoke signals… Just let me know.