Such a Long Long Time to Be Gone
and a short time to be there.
It's hard to believe it's been 15 years already. And with this anniversary coming so soon after dad's death the memories are especially heartfelt.
God you played guitar so sweetly. You could hold entire stadiums in the palm of your hand, lifting them up and propelling them with the energy from your playing. I swear, sometimes you could hear a pin drop; on the other hand, I did suffer some minor hearing loss one night at the the Keystone in Palo Alto.
From 1981 through 1995 I always had plans for the summer. The Greek, the Frost, Red Rocks and so many more places where your magic was unleashed. So many happy people, dancing under the sun. Never had such a good time!
I'm just rambling, I have nothing profound to say, but like you told us, like you said, nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile!
Happy Birthday Jerry!
Here's a photo of Jerry Garcia smiling at Bob Weir while playing in the Grateful Dead back in 1980. I took the photo, developed and printed it, and then 30 years later scanned it in for Jerry's birthday today. Larger version available on Flickr.
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Adelia's 95th Birthday
Monday is Aunt Adelia's 95th birthday! We hosted a celebration at our house this afternoon which was well attended by family and friends. Adelia and Orville didn't have any kids, but she still had a couple of special visitors today when her brother-in-law and niece showed up. We all had a great time.
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Late in the day we drove to Salina via the "eastern route." Below are a few photos I took along the way (and processed using HDR techniques); a few more are also up on Flickr.
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Fractalius Wood Duck
Just for fun, here's a photo I took of a wood duck and then processed using the Photoshop plugin Fractalius.
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Drupal: Display Creation Date in Search Results
I've been pretty happy with this site since I migrated to Drupal a year ago. Out of the box it's not as full-featured with respect to blogging as dedicated blogging tools like WordPress or MovableType, but that's not really an issue for me. Plus, I've added bits and pieces to the site which have made it easier for me to use (post articles) and manage.
Still, there's been one issue that's been bothering me since the beginning and that has to do with how search results are displayed.
By default, search results are presented with each article's "last modified" date displayed. Usually this is the proper behavior, but since I imported the site from WordPress last year all imported articles had a modified date of August 2009. I did not like that, but my initial investigation in how to display the created date instead of the modified date yielded no results.
Fast forward to today when I decided to take another look. Lo and behold, what did I find? An excellent article that provided exactly the solution I needed, along with the instructions on how to implement it the right way, the Drupal way. Thanks to Aaron over at the RoamingCoder for this wonderful fix!
Here's the link to Aaron's article on Displaying Creation Date in Drupal Search Results.
For my own reference, here are the details. First, copy search-results.tpl.php and search-result.tpl.php from $drupalroot/modules/search to your theme's folder. Then add the following code to search-result.tpl.php, right after the opening comments. If you don't see the created date in your search results, visit the theme admin page and resave your theme.
if($type == "node"){
$info_split['date'] = format_date($result['node']->created, 'small');
$info = implode(' - ', $info_split);
}
