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Daily tidbits: Accounting tasks, Commenting and Learning to make a WordPress theme

January 19, 2009

Morning was spent with doing an accounting of personal finances (which also includes my other siblings’ accounts). This activity is a must for me and should be at least done every three days. Usually I would get mixed up or forget a lot of expenses if I go lax with my accounting tasks. You can see a satisfied me every time the cash on hand and my computations match. :) So yes, today I am satisfied and happy.

I was also tied up this morning with answering to a comment in my travel blog. It was about the evening bus schedule and I realized I made a mistake about the time. Tsk. Having grammatical errors on blog posts can be forgivable sometimes, as long as the general message is readable, but when you deal with facts like date, time, people and places… that’s just not fine with me. And to think I did it on a high traffic blog. Tsk again.

Afternoon was a bit lazy as I took a nap which dragged on to more than an hour. It was my body craving for rest since I slept late the night before. After dinner, we attended a healing Mass at 7pm which is scheduled by the parish every 19th of the month. Afterwards, Mom and Juv attended a wake for one of our community members while Dad, Dy, little C and me headed home. We also stopped by one of the fruit stands by the roadside to buy green papaya.

Anyway, I always promise myself not to stay up late but well… I did another web thingy tonight. I started learning how to make a WordPress theme. Yeah! So brave of me, huh. Though I’m not really that genius when it comes to techie stuff especially IT matters, I am not that difficult to teach though.

Last month, I already did a search of most tech blogs giving tutorials on making WordPress themes and I choose Small Potato’s tutorial “So you want to create WordPress themes huh?“among the rest. I like the way he presented the lessons, straightforward and very organized. Before the first lesson though, one of the requirements is to install Wordpress locally on my computer. This makes editing the theme easier without having to go online. Using Xampp Lite and following the instructions, I was able to install it to my laptop which runs on Windows Vista and the program worked beautifully.

The setup for the WordPress account locally in my laptop took just few minutes. Next was going through the steps in Small Potato’s tutorial. It’s almost midnight and I already feel so sleepy… so I’m stopping at Lesson #4 (Header Template). Can’t wait to start the next lesson tomorrow. Goodnight!

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