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Our Home in Sonoita is For Sale

Mr Papa — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:09:55 +0000

That’s hard to say, but yes, we have put our home in Sonoita, AZ for sale. Why? Well, at least its not because we have too. There is no impending job change (about 24 years and counting and quite happy) or any financial hardship reason for selling the house. We have just come to the decision that at this point in time, for our family, its probably the right thing to do and move back a
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New Look For Mr Papa’s World

Mr Papa — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:04:12 +0000

It’s that time again – time for a new look for Mr Papa’s World. This time, it was necessitated by a simple fact that several features of the site were not working to them being outdated. I needed to either get them working or update the general appearance. Since it had been a while since a redesign, I opted for the latter.

The new look is much simpler, cleaner and more of a minimalist approach than
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Another New Look

Mr Papa — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:13:35 +0000

If its Fall again, it must be time to update the look of Mr Papa’s World. Upon arriving at the site now, you will obviously notice a big difference from the previous look. I have tried to update the site theme based upon my more recent usage of the site.

Instead of the light colors, its a bit darker now. And the twitter feed is more prominent. I have found myself making more tweets than posts these
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My Poor Blog

Mr Papa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:35:24 +0000

Oh my poor little blog. How I have neglected it lately! It’s not really by choice, but things have become hectic around here. It probably sounds old, but with work and the kids now doing something damn near every night, time for Mr Papa’s World has been limited. I have managed to do little “Quick Thoughts” blurbs in the sidebar, but that doesn’t really count. Those “Quick Thoughts” get cross posted on Facebook and Twitter and
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Cruise Talk Central Redesign

Mr Papa — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:12:17 +0000

Okay, now I can give some explanation for my absence of late – well, at least part of the reason.

I have been hard at work redesigning our Cruise Talk Central site. Seems like every 18 months or so, I get the urge to redesign the appearance of my sites and it was time for Cruise Talk. The previous theme still looked good, but there were a few things I wanted to
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New Dance Site Launched

Mr Papa — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:06:09 +0000

Okay, time to reveal where I have been lately. Suzanne decided that the dance studio she and the kids go to needed a new and improved website. To be honest, they did. The previous one was fixed html and very, very slow due to incredibly large images (30 MB+) being show as thumbnails.

Anyways, she talked to the owner and “volunteered” me to work on a new website for her. I didn’t kick and scream very
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Interesting Web Site

Mr Papa — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:07:57 +0000

First and foremost, I am not claiming what that image says. In fact, I had some trepidation about doing this post, but after the initial shock (and laugh) its a serious site. Recently, on the open source WordPress forum plugin that I help develop, we had a support request from a site called I Married A Fat Bitch.

My first instinct, on seeing the support
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Lions Fan Site

Mr Papa — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:56:33 +0000

With the upcoming NFL season, I need to make a decision about my Detroit Lions fan site. I really like the site and really like talking about my favorite NFL team, the Detroit Lions. Unfortunately, as one can see by looking at the site, I haven’t made a post since late June.

This isn’t from lack of interest but simply a lack of time. I did a lot of posting during the last season and the first
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Yes, It’s Another “Where’s Mr Papa?”

Mr Papa — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:58:59 +0000

Where in the heck did the last week go? It was nothing but a blur. That’s good in some respects and bad in others. As to my website updates, it was bad. Sorry for the lack of updates over the last week.

A pop up business trip opportunity became available for next week and it has nice potential. So of course, spent a lot of time the last week prepping for the trip. It’s probably
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New Photo Gallery Operational

Mr Papa — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:48:09 +0000

As previously detailed in this post, Mr Papa’s World is happy and proud to unveil our new photo gallery system on this website. That post details the why of the new gallery, so I won’t rehash it.

We still have some work to do on the new gallery, primarily adding captions to the photos, but it is mostly complete. Suzanne has started working on the captions and we hope to complete them soon. I am
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Coming Soon – New Gallery Look

Mr Papa — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:53:34 +0000

Well not all that soon to be quite honest. Its going to take a lot of work to convert over all my albums and photos to a new appearance, but work will start soon. If you have been wondering about the lack of activity here at Mr Papa’s World its because of all the work on developing the new gallery appearance. That, plus the work on do on Simple:Press Forum plugin that I am part of
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Stanley Cup

Mr Papa — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:37:05 +0000

It’s Stanley Cup time in the NHL and my Detroit Red Wings are in it! This year, they happen to be playing the favorite team of a buddy of mine (Hi Paul!), the Pittsburgh Penguins.

It should be a good series, but the Red Wings are on fire this playoff season since inserting Chris Osgood into the starting lineup. In the opening game of the Cup tonight, he managed to shut out the Penguins by a score of 4
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Cruise Talk Central Getting Noticed Again

Mr Papa — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:00:08 +0000

I know I have said this before, but our Cruise Talk Central site continues to grow in popularity. You have probably heard in the new recently about the lady that went overboard on the NCL Dream Ship. Well, yesterday Suzanne wrote a blog article about the incident.

It has been a popular post in terms of number of people viewing it. In addition, if you searched on the CNN.com site for information
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Server Move

Mr Papa — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:57:03 +0000

Okay, I have moved servers again… I was getting too many cpu exceeded errors on the old host… Hopefully, they are now a thing of the past… If you are seeing this post, you have arrived at the new server.

Vacation Update

Mr Papa — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:09:42 +0000

Vacation continues to go nicely. I really needed some time off. The last part of the year at work was rough. I still haven’t decided if I am going to go back to work on the 2nd of January or delay until the 7th. I had been thinking the 2nd, but the kids are trying to get me to make it the 7th since they have that whole week off from school.

On Saturday, Suzanne and the
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Welcome To The New Mr Papa’s World Design

Mr Papa — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:28:52 +0000

Yes, you are at the right place. This is Mr Papa’s World. The look is just different. Recently, I have tired of the look here at Mr Papa’s World. The Almost Spring theme had been in use here since June 2006.

Today, I am happy to introduce the Papa Blues theme here at Mr Papa’s World. Its a pretty drastic departure from the previous theme. I really like it and hope that you do too.
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Busy Times With Websites (and small family update)

Mr Papa — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:51:16 +0000

Wow, what a busy time… I recently launched a couple of new sites, Lords of Seis and Lions Fans Online and that took up some time. But the biggest drain over the last week has been moving my stuff to a new server.

I was starting to reach the limits of my allowed bandwidth and disk storage, plus I was getting these very annoying internal server errors on my sites – mostly in the admin
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Server Move Complete

Mr Papa — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:50:51 +0000

The move to the new server is complete. It was relatively painless for me – hope the same can be said for you.

If you are seeing this post, then your ISP’s DNS has propagated and is correctly pointing to the new server.

Changing Hosting Service Again

Mr Papa — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:14:33 +0000

Mr Papa’s World and all of my other domains will be changing hosting services once again. I have been with current host for a year now and it has been pretty good. I having been paying a bit of a premium for the service and I didn’t mind it give my experiences with previous hosts. However, in the last few months my sites have struggled with it throwing internal server errors. My host and I have
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Site Upgrades

Mr Papa — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:36:23 +0000

Last night, I updated the base WordPress version that this blog runs on. I also updated many of the plugins, including the photo gallery, that I also run on this site. Hopefully, this won’t even be noticeable to my readers.

One thing you will notice is the shoutbox is missing. This is due to it not working in the latest version of WordPress. While not an integral feature of the site, it was a nice to have
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