Archive for September, 2007

There’s the open 3rd floor living/dining area! We got in yesterday afternoon and we’re here until Saturday, Oct. 6th. So far we’ve eaten, relaxed, spent time in the pool, napped, playing HALO 3, sleeping, and the girls went shopping once or twice.

I’ll tell you what—I love having a bit of a break! But why can’t I shake the feeling that I’m procrastinating about something? Oh wait, I guess I am (a bit). There’s a few freelance jobs (and some Disney comics lettering) that I’m going to be doing this week. But it’s not procrastinating to keep that stuff shelved on a Sunday, right?

…something tells me it’s been a rough day at the house.

I recently lettered this little number: The Claws of the Cat. It’s a two-part story slated for Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #687 (pre-order your copy now!).

In a nutshell, Mickey Mouse has to deal with a Lara Croft -ish character named Katarina (pictured). She’s after a particular jade cat… but is she the only one?

This thing was fun to work on! Egmont’s take on Katarina’s outfits seemed a bit on the “garish” side, though, so I decided to spruce ‘em up a bit.

Alright! I’ve upgraded to version 2.3, and I’m in the process of migrating from the K2 Beta Two theme to a modded version of Cutline.

Anyway, the upgrade was almost painless. I say almost, because for a few minutes I had an ugly PHP error flashing across the top of every page on the site. And when I logged out at one point, I was prevented from logging back in(!).

So here’s the problem: this server rune PHP5 (5.1.6, to be precise). PHP5 throws a hissy fit if you try to use array_merge() to merge variables that aren’t explicitly arrays. WordPress 2.3’s wp-includes/widgets.php file does this very thing.

So how’d I fix it? After digging around the articles at PHP.net, I went into the widgets.php file and changed line #53 from
$sidebar = array_merge($defaults, $args);
to
$sidebar = array_merge((array)$defaults, (array)$args);
and it seems to have fixed things.

Just wanted to mention this in case other WordPress users like me start pulling out their hair over it. I probably still have a few more issues to track down (seems something keeps trying to use the post2cat table when comments are submitted, hmm…), but I’m happy.

(Update: still an issue with WordPress 2.5.)

My driver license was set to expire on Wednesday, so I figured this morning would be a good time to renew it. While I was there, I went ahead and updated my voter registration, too. I had been listed as an independent, but I changed it back to Republican so that I can participate in the primaries.

Don’t tell me Ron Paul doesn’t stand a chance!