Warren Falk

Lynn and I on Valentines day wearing our shirts. Lynn bought me the “geek” shirt for my birthday, and bought herself this shirt a week later and hid it until Valentines day. We wore the shirts to the restaurant and received many comments on them. We even had a guy ask us if he could take our picture with his camera phone. (This is not his picture, though.  this picture was taken in our living room before we left).

The “contact” link has been sitting on the current version of my warrenfalk.com site which must be almost two years old if not more.  But it never actually did anything because I never got around to making it work.  Now I have.

Clicking “contact” shows a form on which you can enter a name, email, and a message, and even select a “priority” checkbox which will text my cellphone with the message.

I also have a “works” link on there now which I have to get around to building.  This will be a “portfolio” of some of my web design which I’m attempting to get back into.

I’ve been doing a lot of work on my wordpress installation lately. I migrated my blog to it, then built a theme for it, then trashed it and built another theme for it. I then put up a family weblog and built a theme for that. Then I built a plugin which facilitates photo blogging. It turned out so well, that I think I’ll polish that up some more and publish it. Just lateley I completed work on a website for my extended family on my Mom’s side, 816pine.com. I also built a theme for that one and am reusing my photo blogger plugin. I expect that blog to require some other new plugins also.

I’m quite impressed with wordpress. So far, it is the easiest blog software I’ve worked with. Creating themes is easy and fun, and the extensibility through plugins is also the best I’ve seen so far. I am able to run all my different blogs by modifying the config file to load the config based on the site domain name. The only issue so far is some poor calculation of the upload directory filesystem path and url path which forces you to share the upload path among all blogs. I solved that by making a modification to the code to translate the filesystem path from the url path which is now configurable via the options pages in the admin area as of 2.0.1.

I’ve completed my family blog now. The main reason for setting it up was so that Lynn could post pictures and things. This is something she’s been willing to do for a long time, but I have just now finally gotten around to setting the whole thing up. The new blog is quite a good looking one if I do say so myself. Take a look at The Falk Family Weblog when you get a chance.

I have moved from my Textpattern blog to the much more popular Wordpress blog software. I’m still hosting it myself and have even created this new theme in which you are viewing this. So far I’m pretty impressed by Wordpress, judging it by the standards of other open source blogging software out there.

This page is here to serve as an update to friends and family who are interested in my current situation regarding my endeavor into the medical software business world, and the ensuing disaster.

The blog is (nearly) complete…

The new website has been created…