One of the truly cool things about blogging is that you can help someone out just by knocking out a quick description of the problem, how you solved it, then blogging it.
Sometimes people you’ve helped don’t take the time to say, “Not only have I read your entry on X, it helped me out. Thanks.”
Ron Miller helped me out with a particularly annoying issue between RoboForm and Firefox 1.06, but he didn’t realize it.
For that, thanks Ron.
I’ve been investigating options to maintain ciulla.org via a content management system. Most of them have been overkill for maintaining the few static pages I have laying around.
Then it occured to me that I could use WordPress to maintain the static stuff.
So, I read the instructions on the WordPress Codex. Several times. And I changed my options, moved the files, then updated the permalink structure. Several times. I even deleted .htaccess. Several times.
All to no avail.
Then, magically, it just started working. I hate it when stuff just starts to work. That is, provided it didn’t initially work.
edit: I think GoDaddy uses be some kind of caching mechanism. That would explain a lot.
Anyone who has (or was) a kid is familiar with the backseat chorus of, “Are we there yet?” This becomes a kind of Chinese Water Torture, and is the very reason we will never drive further than 1 hour away from Chez Ciulla. Well, at least with the kids in the backseat.
Here’s the computer equivalent:
Once you allow WinXP to install updates, it generally prompts you to “restart your computer for changes to take effect.” I invariably select, “Restart Later.”
I’ll need to create a new category just for this type of thing, because while this does piss me off, it’s not nearly as bad as comment spammers, blue-haired drivers in vintage Detroit steel, or korinthenkackers.
Back in the good old days, “Restart Later” meant, “Yes, I am aware that I need to restart my computer. I just want to do it later.” Now, it means, “Restart later, but please remind me I need to do so with the precision of a mercilessly sadistic Swiss watchmaker.”
It’s LIN-you-ex
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005Since I installed Spam Karma 2 (SK2), I’ve been an absolute fiend about checking to see if any spam has been harvested. Before, I’d get about 20 “please moderate such and such comment” emails a week… Sometimes more.
It’s been so effective, I have to write about something else, I suppose…
So, here’s what I’ve been doing for the past couple of days (besides working, of course):
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