The one in my head, I mean.
Forgot to renew the domain. Obviously back now.
Sorry ’bout that.
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Memory Hole
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Gunpal
Monday, February 8th, 2010PayPal prohibits payments for transactions involving guns.
Gunpal “is an alternative to PayPal™ that does not discriminate based on the nature of your transaction, requiring only that the merchandise or services you purchase legal.”
Good on them, and I’ll try to use them everywhere I can.
Paypal? Piss off and die, or embrace the Second Amendment.
Something’s Throwing My Posts Away
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009I haven’t figured out if it’s Win 7, Firefox or the Toshiba laptop, or some evil combination thereof, but sometimes I type something, some accidental keystroke combination, that causes tabs in Firefox to disappear, poof, without a trace and no recovery. (I don’t think it’s the ctrl-w close-tab hotkey, although it’s possible. The shift-ctrl-T undo-close-tab hotkey didn’t bring it back.) That just happened again, and it threw away about an hour of work. (Not my toxic right wing ranting, but a mostly positive review for the anime movie Summer Wars, which you should not see the spoiler-laden trailer for.) And not on this site, so it wasn’t in WordPress, which does save drafts, which is good, because I just did it again for this very post. Damn it!
I wish FF saved automatic drafts, and I also wish I knew when a quick, short paragraph was going to blossom, so I could write in an off-line editor that would save.
It’s a damn good thing I’m in a place where my rabid, shrieking curses can’t disturb anybody else.
God damn it, I was about five minutes from packing up and going home to bed, and now I have to do it all over again.
Moderation
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009My apologies, folks, but I’ve had to turn comment moderation on. Regrettably, even logged in users will have to be moderated. I’m going to try to fix that.
I should be able to check the queue once or twice a day for the foreseeable future.
[update]
I figured that anyone reading this blog who cares would realize that the reason I’m doing this is because venomlash (aka “wetnoodle”) is throwing a tantrum.
But he commented on this post, challenging me to reveal my act of censorship, and accusing me of thinking that this blog is “my personal dictatorship”.
Guess what, noodle? It is. This is my house, and I set the rules here.
You want to freely express yourself? Get your own blog; there are plenty of places that will host you for free. Here’s one of ‘em. Or check out Usenet; that’s where I cut my Second Amendment teeth. (Gharlane, wherever you are, thank you from the bottom of my heart for opening my eyes.)
I’m holding your comment to this post in moderation, but I’m copying it to 76 Reasons where you are quarantined until you learn to stop widdling on the furniture.
(And, yes, I erred in not linking, again, to the mess that prompted this action.)
["Dogs of war" he says. Hehehehe.]
Update to WordPress 2.8
Monday, June 22nd, 2009I just finished a complete site backup, and will now attempt to update Wordpress.
And ready and set and here we go….
…And we are back. I guess. I’ll be fooling around, testing for a bit. If something doesn’t work for you, please leave a comment.
Test Post: WP 2.7.1
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Gonna be playing with a few things here; pay me no mind.
Horizontal rules don’t work if you switch to Visual mode; it strips out the attributes.
When I tried to display the hr tag with my usual width and align attributes, by using “code” or “pre” tags, I lost the right sidebar. Ick.
Okies, now I try the blockquote feature. I am in HTML mode.
This is block mode.
Now I switch to Visual.
Huh, there seems to be no indent mode, which is what I used in 2.6 for blockquotes.
Wordpress 2.6.1 -> 2.7 -> 2.7.1
Thursday, February 19th, 2009I’m currently running WP 2.6.1. I want to upgrade to 2.7.1, but Fantastico only goes to 2.7.
The WP Blog blathers about going to the”Tools->Upgrade” menu, but 2.6.1 has no such thing; I’m hoping that’s a feature of 2.7.
So, once again, the magic upgrade process begins. If the site disappears, you’ll know why….
Blooey.
Damn.
I got the “Cannot redeclare is_sticky()” error, described in Hosting Matters’ Knowledgebase here.
Regrettably, I did not check the KB before attempting to roll-back the upgrade, and for some reason, I could not apply the SQL backup Fantastico made.
Annette, HM’s very helpful and patient Tech Support, was able to import the file, very promptly; I copied the Fantastico file backups into the ../Blog directory, and all is fine again. I’m going to try again, after disabling all the plug-ins, as I should have done the first time.
And a one and a two and a here we go….
Ha! Worked that time!
…and in general, I like the look of the new dashboard.
Now to do the bugfix upgrade to 2.7.1…
…And that worked too! Very slick; I like the new Upgrade tool.
OK, I need to go do other things, then I’m coming back to play with my new toy.
Again, thank you Annette. Couldn’t have done it without you.