I did a small photo shoot for a some students at Winona State University who are in an advertising class. This was for some promotion they were doing. I didn’t have any strobes with me to use, so I had to just use studio lights…which aren’t the greatest. But I still got some cute shots of Calvin, the cute kid in the pictures.

I just preformed a decent overhaul of my site…but if it all worked smoothly, you shouldn’t notice many differences.

Here’s the gist of it, for the geeks who care:

• Migrated site from my old host (IX Web Hosting) to my new host (Nearly Free Speech). This should increase performance on several levels. Faster page load speeds will be the most noticeable.
• WordPress upgrade from 2.1 to 2.3.3
• Updated my permalink structure from the default “Jordanogren.com/?p=123″ style to use just post names instead. Like this: “jordanogren.com/my-example-post”
• Removed RSS .92 and Atom feeds, and ditched Feedburner. Exclusively using RSS 2.0 now.
• Upgrade my Google Analytics scripts from urchin to pageTracker.
• Swaped out my UltimateTagWarrior plugin for some other plugins, because WordPress 2.3 supports tagging natively.
• Upgraded Askimet to version 2.1.4
• Made minor tweaks to my site’s theme. Mainly to the way archive and tag pages worked.

Everything appears to be working better than ever, so I will assume I didn’t make any mistakes.

IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY SUBSCRIBED TO MY SITE VIA RSS USING THE URL “http://feeds.feedburner.com/jordanogren/”
PLEASE CHANGE IT TO THE URL “http://www.jordanogren.com/feed/“.
Feedburner is redirecting the feed for 30 days, after that your toast.

If you notice anything strange, let me know, and I’ll fix it.

When there’s not enough light, just bump the ISO speed up and don’t focus. I am sure that works.

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