by Dhry Obviously this site has been dead for quite a while. Once upon a time I had grandiose plans to continue the software reviewing that I was doing back in the late 90’s – which in turn was a continuation of an interest I’ve had since the mid 80’s, starting with the Commodore Amiga – but times changed and I simply ran out of motivation years ago.
So I’m planning to reimagine the site as yet another personal blog. Just with longform things that I might have to say that don’t fit into the tight max post character limits of Mastodon where you’ll find most of my regular stream-of-consciousness posts these days.
I’ll revamp the site to match the new intended purpose soon.
Goodbye, “Dhryland Software Review Central”. (I’ll keep the old posts and categories for posterity.)
by Dhry Well, I’m on a month-long (!) vacation and FINALLY find myself with enough time to revisit this site and take a look through a few things. Realised that the theme that I was using was outdated and isn’t receiving any updates anymore, so I went looking for one that was similar and failed miserably. I’m going to keep the existing theme for right now, I don’t know if a future WordPress update will break it completely but hey, will cross that bridge when I come to it. Did a few plugin updates and messed with the widgets a little and, well.. it looks pretty much the same as it always did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by Dhry Two and a half years since my last update – quite a while! WordPress version was old, I was still running PHP 5.6 (outdated for ages now!). Updated both of those, then found that my main WordPress theme was broken and had to manually update a couple of things there too.
You know, at one stage I thought this site was a pretty important part of me – have always been interested and excited in new software products, wound up working for several software companies, have done software support for most of my life (even before leaving school!) but life’s just caught up with over the years and I find that I have had precious little time to indulge in the hobby. I need to think about what’s next for Dhryland. Maybe I’ll have a revelation or a second wind. We’ll see.
by Dhry Updated to WordPress v3.4.
by Dhry Decided to hook up a page on Facebook – hey, everyone else is doing it! Go like the page and we’ll see what I wind up doing with it over the coming months.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dhryland-Technology-Reviews-and-Opinions/362575500446232
by Dhry  New software is coming out all the time for various platforms that I use and having to write a blog post updating a “top-20” list each time just won’t work – mainly because something better inevitably comes out which invalidates a previous entry. I don’t want to go back and retroactively edit entries I’ve written in the blog itself, so I’ve created three new WordPress “pages” on Dhryland which you’ll see right at the top of the screen. At the time of writing there’s nothing in them yet but just as soon as I settle down comfortably I’ll construct what I believe to be the most important programs on each platform – ones which I use every day and/or couldn’t live without. The pages will then be updated as programs are superceded by better programs etc. So bookmark them now and check them regularly. Of course, new blog entries will continue to appear at their current rate of approximately one every quarter century as and when I see fit to write ‘em. And new tweets will continue to appear, too. I know y’all love those.
by Dhry For some reason I had installed two captcha systems on the site and then never actually tested it. I received a report that comments were unable to be added and this was indeed true. I have corrected the problem and comments should now work again, assuming you enter the captcha code correctly. I will also try to minimize any half-baked site tweaking in the future. Sorry about that!
by Dhry As the subject indicates, the WP version on the site has been updated.
by Dhry Dhryland’s WordPress version has been upgraded to v3.0.
by Dhry Finished the move to the new house. Stuff is strewn everywhere, in and out of boxes, but the most important stuff (the TV and my PC, aka Dhryland Central) is hooked up and ready to entertain. Still got a crapload of stuff to do but hope to get back to some sense of normalcy soon.
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