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Looking for free WordPress Themes

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I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on this blog, but since January I’ve been on a wordpress Theme hunt. I have several blogs and as I prepared to finally update them to wordpress 2.3.3 I realized that some of the themes needed updating. They needed updating not only because the sites needed a new look, but because the themes I’d been using had flaws like loading the sidebars before the content or comments being way at the bottom of the page after a huge gap when viewed in IE. Plus a few of the themes weren’t widgetized and now that I use widgets for my sidebars I’m in love with them. It certainly makes it easier to switch themes quickly if you are using widgets.

I found a lot of themes that I liked. In fact I have a test blog that’s loaded with about 100 themes as I just couldn’t decide which ones to use for the blogs I was updating. LOL

One of the sites were I found a few themes that I liked was Top WP Themes. If you are looking for themes they have a selection of some of the best wordpress themes around.

The site is updated with a new theme almost daily so if you are looking for the perfect theme for your blog look through their archives and I’m sure you’ll find one that suits your needs. Of course you can also bookmark the site and visit it regularly to see what new themes have been posted too. That’s what I’m going to do as I’m still looking for a new theme for this site.

What I like about this site is that you can also look up themes by category. If you are looking for a two column theme, a three column theme, Adsense ready, fixed width or widget ready theme just click on the appropriate theme category and you’ll find dozens of designs. You can preview the themes before you download them if you want to be sure the theme has all the right features.

I’ve already spent some time browsing the site and I think this Rainbow Garden theme is kind of cute. It would certainly be a different look for this blog!

If you are new to wordpress and aren’t sure how to install new themes there’s a helpful installation guide on the Top WP Themes website. They also offer support for some of the themes listed on their site. That’s always helpful!

So if you’re looking for a new look for your wordpress site be sure to check out Top WP Themes. I’ll bet you find a few themes that you like – maybe you’ll even end up with a collection of themes like I did!





Rainy weekend

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I can’t believe the storms we’ve had in Toronto this weekend. Late Friday evening we had a huge thunder and lightening storm that caused the power to go out briefly a few times.

The storm and power failure actually knocked out our TV for a while. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you already know how much trouble we’ve had with our DLP TV lately such as having to replace the color wheel and the special light bulb. Those were expensive! So when the power flashed on and off and our TV’s front panel lights were all flashing and the TV wouldn’t turn back on we thought the storm had wrecked our TV. Luckily after leaving it off for about 30 minutes it worked when we turned the power back on. Big sigh of relief. We certainly can’t afford any more repairs for that TV.

Now today we’re having thunder storms again. This time the TV is not on and we’ve got it unplugged too. We do have a power surge protector, but we aren’t taking any chances. That TV is just too expensive to repair to take chances.

The only other problem with all this rain is that I can’t get out into the garden. I’ve got flats of annuals to plant but you can’t plant in the rain and it’s not good to plant in wet soil as that ruins the composition of the soil.

Hopefully the weather will clear up soon and I can get in the garden in a few hours.

We still don’t have an iPod

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Sometimes i find it hard to believe that neither Chris or I have ipods. Unbelievable isn’t it? I bet that the majority of you reading this have at least one iPod or some other type of portable MP3 player in your home.

I keep thinking we should get one. I mean, now that we have the dog it would be nice to have an iPod to listen to as we take our dog on long walks. It might also come in handy on long car rides as Chris and I sometimes have very different tastes in music. At least if we had an iPod we’d each be able to listen to whatever we wanted between the car stereo and the iPod.

I guess I’ll keep an eye out for sales. Any tips as to which iPod is the best one to get? We’d really only use it for music – I think.

My laptop is getting slower

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My laptop is getting slower and slower! I can barely stand to use it anymore. I’m only using about 40% of the hard drive and I’ve defraged recently but that didn’t help. Perhaps I need to get more laptop memory? I just don’t know.

What I do know is that I’m a prolific photographer and for most of the last year I’ve uploaded all of the digital photos that I take onto my laptop. Prior to this I usually uploaded my photos onto the desktop computer, but I rarely use that computer these days so the laptop is the main computer now. I thought that maybe all those photos were tying up the hard drive so I spent at least two hours this afternoon transferring photo folders to my desktop computer and then deleting the folder on the laptop.

I still have to transfer quite a few photo folders, but I do think the laptop is a little more responsive now. Perhaps freeing up more of the hard drive and getting more memory will help.

Anyone else have any other ideas?

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