Since I don’t have cable television, I haven’t been keeping up with the Olympics in Beijing as I would have liked. However, aside from all the news sites with current results and news, I have found a couple widgets that keep me abreast of the events and standings. In order to see a couple of them, click on the page on the right entitled ‘Beijing 2008.’ You can add them for free to your blog as well.
Wow! This site has only been up and running for less than ten months, but it already has received more than 20,000 hits! Many thanks to all of you…wherever you are…out there in cyber-landia!
Last week I was involved in a risky, adrenaline-pumping endeavor, one that definitely raised my standing heart rate. Carefully mapping out each step of the process, I thought I had ensured what executions were needed in order to survive the ordeal with at least everything I began with…my website was at stake. I had decided to upgrade, but still left out one important action: research the side effects.
The blog portion of my website is powered by WordPress. My version (2.3) was working fine, but I had heard that the newest version (2.6) had some very nice additions, mostly behind-the-scenes tweaks and extras of which I will avoid boring you. Somehow I decided that an upgrade was appropriate and began the uploading of hundreds of new files and folders, deleting or renaming others, and changing certain lines of relevant code. As this post is proof that I successfully made the upgrade (simply because it is visible to you), there was still one glitch that resulted (and I suppose I can be very thankful it was only one problem…aside from a few of the plugins that don’t work with this version). Somewhere, in the deep bowels of the thousands and thousands of lines of code, there were a couple words of coding gibberish that failed to translate with one of my databases on the server that needs to intimately communicate with this new upgrade. This coding hiccup means that the categories that I usually assign to each post (sort of like subject tags based on each post’s content) does NOT appear. So if you are accustomed to searching for previous posts in any of my category topics…I’m sorry. I’m working with my web host to find a certain missing file that would have existed prior to my upgrade. Until I get this fixed, you will have see “Filed under , ,” at the bottom each post, where it normally would list the categories under which that post should fall.
Ironically, three days after I installed the 2.6 version upgrade, version 2.6.1 was released that fixed 60 bugs, including this very one!! I suppose this was inevitable as I am not a prognosticator.
For those of you who recognize the importance of taking a couple minutes everyday to just waste time, I have something for you. This is a fantastic rabbit hole in which to get lost…found right here on the web.
It translates websites into different “dialects” including Elmer Fudd, Pig Latin, and, my favorite, Redneck. Go ahead! Click on the link, enter in my website address (or any site you wish), and see how it could have been written! This could motivate me to write more often…or simply to waste more time.
Do you have any rabbit holes that you would like to suggest?
