!(photo)https://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/IMG_1607.jpg(Water fountain in the snow)!
I think it’s about time I reinstate the *Photo a Day* feature of my website. It’s been too long and my camera is collecting dust. Let’s see how long I can go before missing a post.
It seems that my RSS feed had gone all broken because of some poking around I did with the code. Let this teach you PodCasters out there not to mess with your code when you’re tired. The RSS feed has been restored to it’s former glory and I gratefully thank _Aging Geek_ for pointing the problem out. Who knows how many folks have gone without rocking tunes overnight.
*How will I ever forgive myself?!*
In other news I now have an accurate running approximation of how many subscribers now subscribe to my podcast from the friendly folks over at “LibSyn”:http://www.libsyn.com/ who now host some of my episodes. _Although my screwed up RSS feed may have stunted those stats!_ I’ve switched the hosting part of my podcasts to their service because last month I went way over my usual bandwidth counts and decided it’s better to be safe than sorry. You can find the running tally in my right-hand column.
And finally, many thanks to people visiting the site for their comments about the new design. It makes all those lonely nights staring at a flickering screen in my boxer-shorts worth while.
Well if the new design wasn’t a dead give away, Up the Tree has been upgraded to a new piece of blogging software. Although the move seems to have gone successfully, I am sure there may be a few hiccups – so if you see anything out of the ordinary please give me a holler.
My new weblogging software, “WordPress,”:http://wordpress.org/ while superior in many ways to my old blogging software, “MovableType,”:http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ has one major downfall… every page that WordPress creates is dynamically created and must be a PHP file. This seemingly harmless caveat means that all my old static pages must be renamed or reorganized. This doesn’t bother me particularly, because I can always keep all my old weblog files in the background, but more I am worried about my RSS feeds which had been simply named *index.xml.*
*The .xml thing doesn’t work with WordPress.*
The only fix I can find right now is to create a redirect for my index.xml file which would load my new RSS feed location. The only problem with this approach is that the browser address actually changes with a redirect which I would assume might create a problem with some RSS readers. Does anybody have a better solution? One that would be completely transparent?
_Thanks for listening to my techno-jumble, I promise not to be as dorky in future._
!(photo)https://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/IMG_1601.jpg (Gate after Snow Storm)!
After the buzz filled rush of tourists wanting to _experience_ the gates had subsided, mother nature blessed us New Yorkers with one final gift – a snow storm. The gates, still very much intact, now stand as a constant reminder that New Yorkers sometimes get all the brakes.
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The first Podcast Mash-up, where we take _Tracks Up the Tree_ and mix it with equal parts The Worst Music You’ve Ever Heard. Seth, Jessica, and their daughter Margaret visited us for the first time from Philadelphia to see what all the buzz was about Criso’s Gates project. It’s another PodCast that strays from our usual format, but that’s what podcasts are all about – experimenting.
*Played on today’s show*
# Princeton Junction – “Natural History”:http://www.thenaturalhistory.com/
# Albo e Torenzo – “Le Magicien”:http://magic.paintthesky.org/
# Endless Shovel – “Rogue Wave”:http://www.roguewavemusic.com/
# Kenzo – High Soft
# No Cars Go – “The Arcade Fire”:http://www.arcadefire.com/
# Up the Tree Theme – Trey from “ModPod”:http://modpodradio.libsyn.com/
*In the Cast*
* Please send us your vote over at “Podcast Alley”:http://www.podcastalley.com/
* The Gates
* Seth visits from Philadelphia
* A plethora of podcasts
* Jessica and Margaret discuss the Gates
* e-mail High Soft
* “Oh Blast”:http://www.ohblast.com/
* We are also trying out a new thing – background music! From the “Vinyl Podcast”:http://vinylpodcast.com/index.php
_Peace._