Wayne D's Blog

Ever since I upgraded to Centos 5 I have noticed that I have been getting a "stopped due to shared library event" message in the Eclipse console when loading a png. This was only a minor irritation until I started to load a sequence of hundreds of png's. It was only a problem when running in Eclipse because the message causes the debugger to stop and then resume the program. After much digging and recompiling SDL to add some additional logging I found that when the SDL_image library was loading an image the SDL library was trying to load libpng.0.3 when SDL had been compiled against libpng12. Rebuilding SDL_image resulted in the same problem, a library looking for libpng.0.3 instead of libpng12. Renaming libpng.0.3 and rebuilding the SDL_image solved the problem.

As promised, here is a poll on your either your personal or your congregation's preferred Communion setting in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Please feel free to leave a comment with your reason for preferring one setting over the other. I excluded setting 10 because it is a hymn based setting. I voted for setting one to test the poll, our congregation hasn't started using the new book yet.

Monday afternoon my wife called me at work to tell me our dog was not her characteristic happy self but instead lackadazical and droopy. This usually happens when she has eaten something. Her nickname is Garbage Hound because she is alway snuffling around trying to find something we have dropped. The suspicion was that she had eaten a part of a Poinsettia leaf because a my youngest son had found one that was wet and only half there on the floor. Princess has already had one trip to the late night vet clinic when she got into some chocolate last Christmas. After some internet research we were reassured that Poinsettia leaves are not acutely toxic but have an irritating sap that cause intestinal upset. The symptoms are drooling, vomiting and diarrhea. She had been drooling already and by the time I made it home she had thrown up on the carpet which seemed to make her feel better. Luckily we were spared the diarrhea and the next morning she was back to normal. When discussing my dog eats stuff story with the bartender at my Tuesday night haunt she told me that her seven pound Yorkie had eaten a whole large Toblerone bar at Christmas with no ill effects.

Tonight I went to our local pool with my Explorer troop. There were many signs asking the men to remove their shoes and boots before entering the change room. Many men did, but many men didn't. The change room floor had more dirt on if than the hallway where I ended up retreating to with my shoes and socks to finish dressing. While we were waiting to enter the pool a couple of men who were coming to pick up their kids after their swimming lessons blithly walked through the change room and the showers right up to the door into the pool without bothering remove their dirty, wet boots. Sigh.

I was lying in bed last night and came up with a great idea for a blog posting. I didn't note it anywhere and now I have forgotten what it was. A few days ago I blogged that I was going to put up a poll for the new ELW worship book bur before I can do that I have to install some blog poll software.

Now that I have a blog that doesn't make me write posts two or three times I such have a pent up need to blog that I'll probably be posting like mad for the next while. Of course I said the same thing at Christmas and look what happened.

When I decided to install b2evolution I took the release candidate because it was the newest version and I didn't want to upgrade when it became the official release. Unfortunately the documentation hasn't been updated to reflect where things are, or I couldn't find the info easily. Here are my suggestions on what to do to get going.

When you install you get two sample blogs. Don't delete them right away, they have useful information. Assuming you are starting with onr blog turn off blog B instead of deleting it. To turn it off log in to the admin interface, click on blog settings, blog B, features tab. Uncheck include in public blog list. Then rename Blog A to make it your blog. Keep the sample post for later reference to do this deprecate them rather than delete them. If you click on the edit button for the post and click on deprecate instead of delete.

Want to add something to the menu under the blog title, where Home and About this system appear. Click on write on the toolbar, select the first blog, then select the expert tab in the compose post window. Change the type field from Post to Page. Write the text you want on your page and click save. The new page should appear in the top bar, in alphabetical order. The Home and Contact links are different widgets so your added item will appear between them. If you want the item to only be a link fill in the Link to url field and leave the body of the page empty.

My first impression is that b2evolution is very capable and full featured but has a steep learning curve.