Kite Strings

What's the purpose? Make things more iPhone friendly? Yep. At any rate, I found an extension that should revert the link shortening, so all the existing links should display as they did before now, and you shouldn't have to use the new format I gave in my last post going forward. (Sorry I didn't fi...

Video embedding with [youtube] BBCode tags should be working again. The issue was that we're now forcing encrypted (HTTPS) connections to our site, which prevented unencrypted (HTTP) links from being embedded. I altered our [youtube] BBCode definition to always specify 'https' for the embed regardle...

Our phpBB software version hasn't changed in the move; any missing capabilities are most likely the result of our previous host's customizations. Regardless, I'll attempt to update our software this weekend (the latest version is actually 3.2). The board may experience some disruption during that ti...

Kite Strings is now self-hosted, so we won't have to worry about takeovers again. Feel free to resume posting. Thanks to Steve for grabbing a database backup just before Tapatalk took over the second time. I believe we only lost one post, which Tad has already restored. The one major downside to the...

I didn't do anything, other than post about our certificate error in the support forum. They replied yesterday that they were working on it but have said nothing since. Unless someone knows something I don't, I suspect they temporarily reverted this and possibly other forums having issues until they...

Wildlife in chronological order: - Bighorn Wow, I'm an idiot. This whole time I thought I was looking at a female mule deer (I thought the horns were my eyes playing tricks on me...it was pretty far away). Never even considered bighorns as the image I have in my mind of them is a ram with...big hor...

Found him [Cottonmouth] to be very gentle, well behaved Amazing. I don't have any experiences with them myself, but everyone I know seems to regard them as highly aggressive. Union Pass Road itself doesn't look too bad - as far as I can tell anyway. It isn't, and that's the way I was supposed to go...

I don't know where you learned to handle snakes like that, Tad, but you sound like you knew what you were doing, so I'll resist the temptation to label you 'nuts'. =) I'm glad it worked out for all concerned. I'd have been in the "won't get within striking range times twenty" camp... In an...

Wonder how Zack's doing with no home to go back to - in the short term at a minimum - and the Plan B having caught some of the same flak that necessitated the Plan B in the first place. Just fine, actually. Lafayette (Plan B) ended up between rain bands when the storm moved through and got almost n...

And speaking of which, I sure hope Zack's still above flood level in the current horrendous Houston/Harvey situation. More later, but for now I just wanted to say that I was still in Yellowstone when the storm hit and have not yet returned to Houston. I was supposed to fly back today but will inste...