For the first summer ever, I have managed to actually get a full-time job. I honestly don’t know what was going on the past couple summers when I tried applying to every business in my home town, but this year I’m working for the county’s parks and recreation department. Not my ideal job, but it’s steady income.
As a result of my new 40-hour week, I haven’t had much time to get on my blog and post stuff. This is unfortunate, but it’s happened before. Everyone hits a slump now and again. I figure I’m just too beat to get properly irritated at world events. Or maybe I’ve become jaded enough that I simply can’t get properly irritated? That would be disturbing.
For lack of anything better, here’s a video. It involves SCIENCE. Kind of.
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As usual, my WordPress upgrade (to the much-hyped 2.5) gave me grief. Unfortunately, much of it was my fault. For some odd reason, my FTP client moved files on the server instead of copying them, so my backup was essentially useless (I copied the original blog directory to another directory). Thus, when I deleted the new directory when it got messed up, I deleted everything. Themes, plugins, even images. Can anyone say “stupid mistake”?
Luckily, any pictures I used on the site are on my computer, but that just means I’ll have to re-upload them and fix any posts using images (such as the most recent post before this). And on the bright side, I can start anew without the clutter of useless themes and plugins. On the downside, I don’t remember what all the useful plugins were…
And yes, Bagel, I know I could have avoided this by just having a blog on WordPress.com, but I’m too stubborn for that. I just wish I had made better backups…
UPDATE: All right, I’ve got a new theme going, but I’m still missing a lot of stuff. And I still feel stupid. Argh. At least WP 2.5 is nice. It’s a good thing, too, considering the trouble I went through.
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If you’re like me and run your own copy of WordPress that’s not actually hosted by WordPress.com, upgrading can be a little bit annoying, especially with the minor security fixes that come out every so often. Luckily, there’s a fairly easy way to do this, as Zack of All Trades illustrates. You can do this if you have access to an SSH or Telnet shell. Some hosts don’t offer it, but others do, so you’ll need to check with your web host to see if you can access your account via a shell client. It’s is not for the weak of heart.
I wouldn’t recommend this method for major upgrades, but I suppose it’d work out just fine. I’ve used it for the past few minor updates and it’s been great. Less time spent using an FTP client and more time spent…uh…writing, I suppose. Maybe. Sometimes.
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Oddly enough, my rather disjointed rant on Alex Jones and his status as a case of nuts is the most popular post on this blog, having received 242 total views since it was posted last September. It’s also the most commented on with 21 comments (mine included). Just goes to show how easy it is to piss off conspiracy theories, doesn’t it? Just mention their leader and an insult and the referred searches just start rolling in…
And yes, I know 242 views over 4-5 months is nothing, but it’s a lot for this blog. And if that’s not enough to wow you, I even got a comment from Morton Devonshire, the Wikipedia editor who got Jones all riled up a while back, which pushed me to write the article in the first place. How’s that for full circle, or whatever? Yeah, you know what I’m talking about.
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You may have noticed a rather large jump in the number of posts here at Mad Rants. I don’t know how you might have noticed such a thing through a casual glance, but hey, it could happen. Anyways, I broke down and paid for a premium Xanga account so I could import all my old posts (back to September 2004) to this blog. Looking back, I don’t know why I bothered. Most of my posts were rather meaningless and certainly not anything like the things I write about now. Well, I suppose it at least gives me credibility for having an active blog for so long (”I was blogging when blogging was still the realm of people who had nothing to talk about!” …wait, that still holds true…), and I suppose the posts are fun to read through. I had a strange sense of humor three years ago.
Anyways, please bear with me as I go through and categorize, tag, name, and cleanup all the imported posts. Permalinks may be broken for these old posts, so don’t go Digging them just yet. I only wish I knew why some of the later (more recent) ones are lacking names and links for the comments. Very odd.
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Oddly enough, my rather disjointed rant on Alex Jones and his status as a case of nuts is the most popular post on this blog, having received 242 total views since it was posted last September. It’s also the most commented on with 21 comments (mine included). Just goes to show how easy it is to piss off conspiracy theories, doesn’t it? Just mention their leader and an insult and the referred searches just start rolling in…
And yes, I know 242 views over 4-5 months is nothing, but it’s a lot for this blog. And if that’s not enough to wow you, I even got a comment from Morton Devonshire, the Wikipedia editor who got Jones all riled up a while back, which pushed me to write the article in the first place. How’s that for full circle, or whatever? Yeah, you know what I’m talking about.
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