Zeus was approximately three months old when my mother & I picked him up from the Lincoln County Humaine Society in March of 1992. He was with us throughout all my highschool and university days, and lived until May 31, 2008.

Zeus was loyal, protective, an escape artist, a companion…

We miss him dearly. In memory of Zeus, I have published a gallery of photos on Facebook. I hope everyone enjoys them – may Zeus live on forever in memory and spirit.

It has barely been a month since Zues physically departed from our lives. We are gradually adjusting to the lack of his presence. Today is the first time in 17 years, since 1991, that we celebrate Canada Day without Zeus…
D.Shak

We posted a video yesterday to this WordPress-based website, which prompted setting up the “Post to Blog” sharing option of YouTube, which makes it faster and easier to share content. In doing so, D.Shak felt that it would be appropriate to carry out an important maintenance task that has been due for a couple months – upgrade from WordPress 2.5 to 2.5.1 – so, he also tried the WordPress Automatic upgrade plug-in. Upgrades are important to keep up with, but they often result in issues to iron out. There were a couple burps (i.e. the process was repeated two or three times), getting through it error-free by the end, and it seems that all modifications have been preserved. Overall, today’s experience with WordPress and YouTube was impressively smooth and easy.

Considering the relative ease and success of upgrading this WordPress deployment, we were left motivated to also activate the Akismet plug-in, which checks comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. We needed to setup a WordPress.com API key to use it, which was quick & easy to do. Shak.WS is now showing off Akismet stats on the sidebar at the right! Hopefully the Akismet plug-in will save some time that was being lost to spam, of which I currently receive several per day.

D.Shak