Animated model of a zipper being undone.

Image via Wikipedia

Just wanted to share a quick link about using gzip to compress my site and the savings by doing it.

http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/?url=aHR0cDovL2hpcHB5cmFuZGFsbC5jb20=

And the best thing is that I didn’t have to futz around with server side stuff like editing an .htaccess file or anything like that. I simply installed a WordPress plugin:

WordPress Gzip Compression
By James SocolVisit plugin site

Enables gzip-compression if the visitor’s browser can handle it. This will speed up your WordPress website drastically and reduces bandwidth usage as well. Uses the PHP ob_gzhandler() callback.

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I know that it may not be perfect, and I am sure that I will keep changing and tweaking it, but I think that the new theme of the site is much better now. If you notice anything that needs attention, like bad colors or missing areas, please let me know.
The basis for the theme is the Thematic theme called Buddymatic with my own CSS, colors and images.

Until the next change in theme appearance…L8R

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You may have noticed some changes to hippyrandall.com since your last visit. I am in the process of making a TON of changes and things such as colors and post locations etc will be changing over the next couple days. If you are interested in having your own blog here at HippyRandall.com send me an email and I will set one up for you. You will get your own blog at http://hippyrandall.com/<username>

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Had to disable the user messages plugin since it was not working as it was supposed to. If anyone knows of a good substitute that does not require that a user be an author or higher please let me know.

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August 3, 2008 9:44 AM

New addition on the misc page called “Evolutionary Minded” Now don’t
go getting your panties in a bunch. I have no intention, at least for
the moment, of launching into a tirade about intelligent design vs
creationism vs evolution. Having said that, you can expect something on
just that topic in the future. In the meantime go on over and enjoy
“Evolutionary Minded”

August 1, 2008 7:34 PM

Nothing much new here. I am still considering moving the site to Drupal CMS but have not made up my mind yet.

Anger and bitterness seem to be the theme for the week. Angry at the
lack of mobility; the constant pain; the completely (or very nearly)
useless shots in the back. Bitter at the people who claim friendship,
till friendship is needed. Just generally feeling like a pissy fucker.

So, leave me be in my sullen moodiness and go read something or something else.

July 29, 2008 4:17 PM

Ok so today I have uploaded some new content in the ritings
section as well as the rimes section and some other misc stuff. Alot of
the content is a few years old now and I think it is obvious that my
mind was in a very odd place. I make no apologies for anything you may
read on this site or any effects it may have on your state of mind. On
that note, Enjoy!

July 28, 2008 6:32 AM

Got some fresh ideas for the site…now to figure out how to
implement them. Need to find a graphic artist, flash designer, and
maybe a javascript programmer to help me out with some of this stuff.
Or maybe I can google some resources for use in Dreamweaver. Oh well,
back to the drawing board for now.
The pic to the right is my beautiful fiance, Holly.

July 24, 2008 4:40 PM

Still working on getting this site looking better. Got a copy of
Dreamweaver CS3 and some tutorials. Working my way through them now os
hopefully I will have some better looking content by the end of this
weekend.

July 21, 2008 12:38 PM

Today is Holly’s Birthday!! If you have myspace, stop by and wish her a happy birthday….Holly

This ugly bit of mess will have to suffice for now. The links on the
left will not be active until I have time to actually make the pages
and the content.Those of you who know me will know how to get in touch
with me if you have any tips or suggestions.If you are impatient for
new content you could always stop by my blog, not that there is much
there either but it is certain to be more entertaining than this.

Interesting link for all you Hippy Randall fans out there:

Hippy Randall for President ’08

The Future

I’ve seen the future baby and it is murder…oh wait. Sorry about that. I channeled Leonard Cohen for a second there.

Seriously though. What does the future hold for hippyrandall.com?
First priority is to get everything up and running properly and all the
content. The content is going to mostly consist of my writings,
rantings, ravings and rhymings; hence the name of the site. One day you
may come here and read about my latest endeavors into the world of
Ubuntu and the next I may be raving against the idiots in charge of “it
all”. I make no apologies or excuses for what you see, hear or read
here. Take it or leave it.

Eventually, once the above is taken care of, I would like to add a
forum. I envision a forum broken into three or four parts. One will be
called ‘Friends’ for the various vagrant types, another will be for
family, and another public forum. This is going to take some work on my
part as I know nothing about setting up forums. But hey, 6 months ago I
knew nothing about setting up Ubuntu on my HP laptop. Three years ago I
knew nothing baout hacking my XBOX into a media server. Done them both
and this is my new project.

Hope you will come along for a magic carpet ride….crap another channeling.

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