Daniel Greene

Month: June 2010

  • Thinking of moving from WordPress.org to WordPress.com

    It’s been such a headache for me to manage my WordPress.org-powered blog that I’m thinking of moving it over to WordPress.com. I didn’t realize until recently that I could even have it all on danielgreene.com. I read this article called WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org tonight, and I realized that, on WordPress.org, none of the Pros are helping me and all of the Cons are hurting me, whereas on WordPress.com, none of the Cons would hurt me and all of the Pros would help me. I’m not a PHP programmer nor do I really want to hire one to manage my site for me. I freak every time I have to update from one WordPress software version to another. Automatic updates always hang. Manual updates are a pain. With WordPress.com it’s all taken care of, and I could focus solely on what I really love to do, which is write and share media. The terms of service for WordPress.com forbid ads, but I don’t earn more than maybe $100 a year in Google AdSense ad revenue on danielgreene.com anyway. With the money I’d lose, I’d gain time— and peace of mind! And the few “legacy” pages I have, such as my Style Sheets Demo Page, while pioneering in its day, hardly seems relevant anymore. I could probably even put some of that CSS into a WordPress page anyway.

    What do you think? Any reason why I shouldn’t turn danielgreene.wordpress.com into danielgreene.com and move my blog over here?

  • Buxley-like looks



    Buxley-like looks
    Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene

    Saw this doggie at the Phoenix Pet Expo. This little guy had the same dappled black-and-white underside that our little Buxley has. The look as he turns his head around is even similar. His forearms look longer than Buxley’s, though, and Buxley’s tail is more fox-like.

  • Daniel shakes his maracas

    Here’s my husband being himself in public… again.

  • The Smithsonian featured a photo of mine

    I just remembered that I forgot to share the good news with everyone that The Smithsonian featured a photo of mine last March. It appeared in a Click! Photography Changes Everything post in the webzine The Bigger Picture – Visual Archives and The Smithsonian.

    I am honored even though I realize that The Smithsonian has featured photos by thousands of photographers over the years. Still, how many people can say that The Smithsonian featured a work of theirs. It’s exciting to be a part of a great American institution.

  • Fish swimming around room at Sea Life Aquarium

    Andy & I went to the newly-opened Sea Life Aquarium at Arizona Mills for the first time. One of my favorite rooms was this round room surrounded by a continuous circular tank in which schools of fish swim ’round & ’round.