March 2010 Archives

Velvet has been playful, lovable and downright hilarious. I made her a ball of yarn and she tears it apart on a regular basis, at least when she isn’t carrying it around in her mouth mewoing. She throws it and chases it and attacks it. She backs it into corners. It’s quite entertaining.

Now she wants to play hide and seek. You can see her paws and tail sticking out. So I told her “Velvet, I can see your paws.” So she hid her paws from me. The unfortunate thing is that she forgot that her tail was still sticking out. But I just let her be and pretended I couldn’t find her after snapping a photo and walking away.

And then there she is after coming out of hiding. She simply doesn’t believe that I ever even knew where she was hiding. Do you see Velvet’s fur coat? She’s happy and healthy and her fur is growing back amazingly fast. I haven’t seen her full coated since a couple of years after we got her. She’s a very stressed kitty normally and tends to chew on herself. Since we moved here she hasn’t done any of the constant chewing and looks so much better for it.

Due to technical issues I was having when uploading images - it wouldn’t bring up the menu to tell it to make a thumbnail, what size to make it, where I wanted it aligned or if I wanted a popup as well anymore. When installing MT5, you have to do a completely new install (this is a warning to all of you out there) and that means you cannot use the database you used with MT4. I did and that messed things up. So I uninstalled everything, started a new database and deleted the old one, then reinstalled MT4 because it’s the preferred method of posting for this girlie.

MT5 is more for those who are starting out fresh and new and don’t want to have to go through the weeks it would take to establish a website and blog integrated into one. Although, I have a bit of a bone to pick about this. The way MT5 seems to be setup is on a new install you have to start a website before you can start a blog. And then it messes up the urls from there, especially when you work with subdomains.

I think MT4 is amazing for creating an entire website with though. You can create Pages that have the same exact layout as the rest of the website. Those pages get linked in a widget, or if you want them elsewhere you can put them anywhere on the site. So I didn’t see a need for the way MT5 was set up or why it even replaced MT4. Or maybe I’m just not savvy enough to see the use for it yet.

I like MT4, it works for my needs. And soon I’ll have everything here back in order, including the other three sites that are also currently down and out. I am reuploading photos one by one so that they are listed in the database and with work taking up a lot of time and the Little Lady taking up a lot of time (she had food poisoning saturday and is still feeling effects from it) this has been on the low priority list. Let me tell you though, it is driving me batty. So as always, be patient and things will come together very soon. Laters.