We’ve been away from The Cody Report for a year while we focused on Elliott’s health and on updating people over at ElliottBlog. Starting with Laurel’s Birthday and the anniversary of Elliott’s diagnosis on July 24th we will resume posting on the Cody Report!
We’re Back!
All is still well in the Cody house. Kyllan and I have pretty busy lately so we haven’t had anything interesting to post about, but with 5 trips planned over the next 4 months that is likely to change. First up on list: Easter, and my Birthday, in Cleveland with both sets of parents.
I updated our version of WordPress this weekend. There are a few strange things going on with the site. Hopefully I will have everything worked out in a few days.
EDIT: I fixed everything that I noticed. Please let me know if you spot something else.
On another note, I saw the movie Funny People this weekend and thought it was pretty good. It wasn’t your typical Judd Apatow film. It was still pretty vulgar at times, but it had a lot more drama then his films usually do.
The real reason for the recent redesign was to take advantage of some of the newer features of wordpress. One of those features is the ability to add a photo next to your comments. A few of you have asked how to do this. There are two options… I think. The first option is to sign up for a gravatar account here. All you have to do is upload a photo and associate it with an e-mail account. When you enter that e-mail when commenting on the blog the photo will show up. If you happen to have a facebook account, the second option is to sign in to the blog using facebook connect. The sign in is at the bottom of the right hand sidebar. Just enter your facebook credentials and the photo from that profile should appear when you make comments… Not having a facebook account, I haven’t actually tested it. It should work, but I am not making any promises.
You may have noticed that things look a bit differently around here. Welcome to the Cody Report 2.0 . I’ve been wanting to update the site for a while now and the new year seemed like a good time to do it. Not only do I think the redesign looks cleaner, we’ve added a few new features too. While we dumped the picture in the header for a rotating picture over the sidebar, the contents of the right hand sidebar remain the same; You can still find links to all of our Flickr accounts, blogs run by friends and family members and or favorite sites. Post now feature avatars next to the comments. You can also thread comments now (respond specifically to a particular comment.) There were a few new features I decided to leave out after testing. I am looking for alternative ways to implement those ideas, so don’t be surprised if you see a few more features turn up over the next few weeks.
What do you guys think?
I visited Kyllan in Dallas this weekend. As usual, we had a great time. I just got in a few hours ago. When I have a little more time I will post some pictures and tell everyone all about it.
If you have had problems with reaching The Cody Report the past couple of days, don’t worry, it’s not just you. I’m trying to solve an ongoing problem with my host. It should be resolved in a few days. If you find that the site is down, please try again in a few hours.
Sorry for the lack of post recently. Kyllan and I have been extremely busy the past couple of weeks. There hasn’t been much going on for me outside of the lab. Kyllan will be in town this weekend. We were thinking about going up to the mountains, but it looks like an experiment is going to keep us in the city. Any thoughts on must see movies in theaters or on DVD? I posted a few photos form her last visit on my Flickr page.
We have a couple of new links in our friends and family section. One of Kyllan’s line sisters started a blog a few months ago: Balancing Act. Also, the Brazile family has decided to restart their blog the Brazile Brief.
Happy New Year Everyone! 2007 was a year filled with ups and downs.
We saw the blog turn 1 year old
We saw good friends and family members succeed in their academic endeavors
We saw prayers answered again and again
We saw some awesome birthday presents
We saw good friends marry
We saw our own relationship hit the 5 year mark
and of course, we married and had a beautiful honeymoon
We will make a post about the amazing last few days of the year shortly. Christmas pictures are up on my flickr photostream. 2007 was a wonderful year, but Kyllan and I feel 2008 will be even better.
If you tried to come to the site the past 2 days you probably saw all sorts of wired messages. I am sure no one is interested in the technical details, so long story short, we’re back. (No, it wasn’t something I did. The former host screwed something up. The site is now being hosted by another company.) A few things are still a little wonky. I will fix those over the next few days. Since the entire site was essentially deleted from the server, I had to restore all the old post and comments from a backup I made a few weeks ago. The post about my shiny new bike and the comments about my nephew Drew one day getting a motorcycle are gone. Sorry. The site may disappear and reappear over the next 48hrs as the DNS updates. Please let me know if the site starts doing anything else weird the next few days.