you may (or may not) have noticed a week long drought of WoD posts, and while some will probably just assume that i’ve just gotten lazy and stopped posting or worse yet, that i’ve stopped working out completely – or maybe that my times/results/weights/reps/etc. have been so embarrassing that i refuse to post them on my site… well, that’s not the case.
last sunday i went down to San Antonio, TX for the spring NiUG (National iMIS User Group) conference. iMIS is the program that we use at Pheasants Forever for our customer records. i went to the same conference last year in Orlando, FL – and i knew VERY little about the application. this year, i had a better grip on the program as i’ve been an instrumental figure in the development of our setup and have become the resident expert in all things iMIS at PF. having this experience in iMIS and going to an iMIS conference really was beneficial – as i was able to ask more specific questions; questions that answered an issue we were having at PF. it was kind of nice not being completely overwhelmed with total newness.
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Stop with the Hello Dolly plugin
i love wordpress. it’s a great, flexible, easily customizable, often used and free
CMS which started out as merely a blogging platform. I’ve used it for a long time (since v1.2 or something like that), i’ve seen it grow into the mecca of awesome that it has today. there are many benefits of wordpress that i enjoy greatly, including the automatic update from the admin panel, but the one thing that annoys the hells out of me is that stupid ‘hello dolly’ plugin. why must it be included with every update/upgrade? i’ve never used it, i never will. the first thing i have to do after an upgrade is to remove the stupid one-page plugin. it’s a waste. all i’m asking is that you don’t include it when you upgrade. keep it in the new installs, i have no problem with that. but if i don’t want it (which i very much do not), why do i have to keep deleting it from every site i update? if i wanted it, i wouldn’t have deleted it in the first place.
Please WordPress, stop including the ‘Hello Dolly’ plugin with system upgrades!
thank you.
hello, my name is T and i am a geek.
Everyone: Hi, T
i can has a blackberry. it’s my calendar, a gaming device (Texas Holdem anyone?), i tweet on it, i check multiple email addresses… oh, and i can make phone calls with it too.
my gravatar is from a hilarious web video any true designer geek will love. I’ve got accounts on facebook, myspace, linkedin, twitter, stumbleupon, AIM, yahoo!, msn, gtalk, ICQ, skype and more email addresses than any sane person can check on a daily basis.
it’s becoming more and more difficult to put time into any of these – as all these things can be a total time-sucking waste of time. but they’re also a lot of fun – i’m able to keep in touch with friends i’ve not spoken to in a coon’s age.
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