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OpenID Is The Pits

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

I hate OpenID. I’ve created an OpenID account with WordPress to use with sites that require logins to leave comments.

I have never once been able to use my OpenID account to leave a comment. Always, there is some screwup. Most often, it just comes back with something useless, like, “OpenID Error”. No clue how to fix it. No clue what the real problem is.

OpenID, you assholes, blow off. Die, you twerps.

Oh, this seems most prevalent with blogger.com blogs. If this is a problem with blogger: you too can eat crap and die.

Dammit, I have thrown away thousands of words trying to comment on OpenID/Blogger sites, and never gotten in.

Piss on it. Not wasting anymore of my time.

(I remember the first time I tried to use it. Created accounts here, there, everywhere. But the site I was trying to comment at kept saying, you are not logged in at…. Yes I am assholes. No you’re not. Fine. Die then. )

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Toe Stub

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Ow! Ow! Ow!

That did not go well.

Several problems settled in at once, resulting in ricketyclick being more rickety than clickety. All fixed now.

I am now going to take my blog in my hands and attempt to update again, this time from 2.9.1 to 3.0. I’ll be using the built in WordPress update instead of Fantastico!

Please stand by again….

[update]

OK, backed up and deactivated plugins…

[update]

OK, update to 3.0 complete.

I’ll be turning the plugins back on now….

[Update]

…And the plugins aren’t just blowing up in my face.

[update]

I will now be playing with the Visual editor, which has not worked well in past versions.

For instance, let’s see how it deals with hard-coded html….

And let’s try a list:

  1. Item one
  2. Item two
  3. Item three

OK…save

Right off, it disturbed the formatting on my horizontal rule. Blegh.

Switching to HTML mode…

Typing in a manual list…

  • Item a
  • Item b
  • Item c

Switching to Visual then HTML again….

HM, that actually didn’t go too badly. In some previous versions, swapping back and forth turned HTML tags into special characters. Didn’t happen this time.

Unless I need a HR, I guess I’ll be sticking with the Visual editor for awhile.

Now for media insertions….
Urk…can’t upload to my content directory…let me check permissions….

Trying again….

OK, that’s fixed. Let’s try a big one…Never mind. I was hoping there’d be an option for inserting the picture sized to fit the column. Nope. Now let’s try flash…

Ah…not quite what I had in mind…but OK. I can work with that.

OK, I’m calling this successful.

Moving on with my life.

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WordPress Update Commencing

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

I’ve been doing various networky and computerish stuff for the last couple of days (including an updated version of WRT-DD on my home router), so I’m going to cap it off by running Fantastico! against the blog here.

Stand by…

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Server Move

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Hosting Matters has been keeping this blog on a server that’s been acting up recently. It will be moved to another, newer, more robust server at a round 7:00 pm Eastern. So, a pause here while the very hardworking Annette gets fresh coffee….

Oops, forgot to update:
The move was successful, except for some reason the new server thinks I’m using about 300 MB more storage than I really am. The ever-helpful Annette bumped my quota to accommodate the extra until they can track down the glitch.

Sometime in the next day or two I’ll update my wordpress version as well, but not tonight.

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Dinking

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

I’m dinking around with the theme. Expect weirdness.

[update]
k2: Ick. Ugly. Tabs in header. Removed my horizontal rules; I like HR, dammit!

More later.

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WordPress Update Completed: 2.8.4

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Wow, that was fast. I’ll be checking things out for a bit, making sure everything works OK.

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WordPress Update

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I am updating WordPress. Occasionally, this has caused trouble in the past. We’ll see how it goes this time.

Please stand by….

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Moderation

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

My 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.]

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Mandatory Sporadic

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

I’ll only be able to post sporadically for the next month or two, possibly only on weekends.

I apologize to all those who can no more start their day without my golden words than they could without coffee.

There’s nothing like a good hot pot of coffee to get you going in the morning. Sure, I’ve tried other enemas….

— Emo Phillips

From the If Anybody Really Cares Department:

WordPress sometimes counts more comments than I can see posted. On the other hand, when I make a comment on such a post, it doesn’t always bump the counter. I’ll investigate when I have time. For now, if you’ve commented and I haven’t replied, I may not have seen your post, or I may have replied but the count didn’t bump.

I’d very much appreciate if readers would tell me if they’ve noticed this happening, or if you’ve tried to comment, but your comment has not appeared.

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Update to WordPress 2.8

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I 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.

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