McD's - GTD

I finally got TextPattern installed on The Reducers web site. So, the home page now is a blog. Eventually the entire site will be managed by TextPattern.

I spent this weekend updating the web apps that I run on my web sites. That’s always fun.

• Updated my TextPattern install on this web site to v4.0.5. I also splurged on a copy of MarsEdit to manage my blog postings. If it works well with this blog I’ll be adding blogs to some of my other sites and using it there as well.
• Updated MediaWiki to v1.11.0 on New London Rocks! and McD’s Huskies Hoops.
• Updated the phpBB forum software to v3.0RC5 on New London Rocks! Apparently it has been a while since I checked out the forums because since February it has become loaded with spam. Spent an hour deleting all of it and installing a mod so that I could do mass deletion of bogus user accounts, and changing settings to require admin activation of new accounts.
• Updated OpenAds to v2.3.39 beta on New London Rocks! That’s the app the handles the banner ads on the site. Ran into a problem with this one so I had to roll back to the previous version until I have time to figure out the problem.
• Updated my genealogy site to v6.1.2 of TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding). I also uploaded a complete new GEDCOM file with all my latest info.
• I was going to update the Gallery app that runs the photo gallery on The Reducers web site but I want to install Gallery2 and I need to read some more about how to upgrade from Gallery1 before I attempt the upgrade.

I need to add a recurring event every 3 months to remind myself to check for updates for all of these apps on a regular basis.

I did another update for my cousin Joe’s web site update, scanning and posting about 20 more new photos for him. Check it out if you like nature photography. If you’ve got any plans to visit Mt. Rainier some day you should pick up a copy of his book while you are there.

Well, I didn’t get everything done in 2006 that I hoped to but I suspect that I got more done than I would have without my new GTD philosophy.

Here’s my updated list for 2007:

Dreimiller.com

• Update the TextPattern software for this blog

EarthWindows

• Cousin Joe is supposedly sending me 6 new photos to post

New London Rocks

• Look into purchasing and running MegaSeg to manage the Live365 stream

HuskiesHoops.com

• Get historical stats database online – I’m about 30% done right now
• Get updated player profiles online – I’ve installed the wiki and I’m in the process of pre-populating it with my exisiting player profiles
• Restart daily news updates

The Reducers

• Come up with a new design for the site
• Get the all-time gig database online – Database design work is done just a matter of importing the data and throwing together a web interface
• Turn the home page into a blog

Tennis Ladder

• Build from scratch (PHP and MySQL) – I really need to start getting more exercise this year

Gales Ferry Cub Scout Pack 55

• Find out guidelines for CS pack web sites (Very low priority – not sure how much longer Danny will continue with scouting)

I finally finished up my cousin Joe’s web site update, scanning and posting about 60 new photos for him. Check it out if you like nature photography. If you’ve got any plans to visit Mt. Rainier some day you should pick up a copy of his book while you are there.