What happens if I don’t shave for close to two months?
Maybe it’s time I cleaned myself up… Phil and Erika now refer to me as “Grizzly Adams,” which, co-incidentally, was the same thing my mother would say if I didn’t shave for a week, let alone 2 months… Sigh…
It seems my late night rant has brought up a debate for paid WordPress support. Personally I think it would be a good thing, under certain circumstances…
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful.
Indeed what a mouthful, but what becomes of it when it becomes unusable? For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been floating around the support forums looking for answers to questions I have as well as trying to help others with things I may have already fixed, but it’s slowly becoming apparent to me that the problem is WordPress its self…
Now regardless of what the problem was, I’ve always been able to come up with a quick fix, sort of like a band-aid, to sort it out until I can seek “professional” help in the support forums, but now I have a problem that, as much as they think they are helping, is just down to fucked up coding by the developers. But wait, yes, I’m using 1.5 beta, and “beta releases shouldn’t be used by the general public,” OK, fine, so why do the general public have access to these nightly releases? If Joe Schmoe is running WP 1.2.2 and finds out that someone or other is running WP 1.5, of course he’s gonna want to upgrade, cause WP 1.5 comes with all these much better bells and whistles. Therein lies the problem, the average user (and I don’t mean to be condesending in this, simply because 18 months ago, I was the same) probably doesn’t have the knowledge needed to fix things when they fuck up, and they will fuck up…
The “company policy” when it comes to this is “back up your data via phpMyAdmin, change settings in phpMyAdmin, yadda yadda yadda” which for advanced users is all fine and dandy, but me, and I consider myself an advanced user, I absolutely HATE going into phpMyAdmin, it’s far, far to easy to screw around with something and end up with everything in your database flushed down the proverbial toilet.
Anyways, back to the problem at hand, I can’t login to my WordPress install, the only reason I’m posting this is because when I upgraded to WP 1.5, Firefox kept the login cookie and lets me in, if anything, god forbid, should happen to that cookie, then I’m up shit creek without a paddle… And I’m not the only one… In fact this is described as a major bug in the system and it’s been around for a while, and with almost a month of nightly releases under WP1.5’s belt, it’s still not fixed, let me repeat that… IT’S STILL NOT FIXED! What kind of system that advertises it’s self as, and let me repeat:
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
And it won’t even let you do the “simple” thing as logging in to the admin section… And the support forum is bursting with people to tell you how to fix it, except it’s not fixing it, and someone even said, I wish I could find the post now, that it “wasn’t such a big deal and the developers probably have more important things to worry about.” How off putting is that when you’re trying to fix this kind of error?
Which brings me back to my original point, the problem with WordPress is WordPress it’s self… Due to it’s open source nature, it will be impossible to have any kind of “official” technical support, so instead we have to rely on one another, but when you’re asking important questions and the responses are generally unhelpful, and sometimes insulting, what can you do?
EDIT (20/01/05 6:01pm): A particularly inflamatory statement has been removed, in the cold light of day it probably wasn’t the best thing to say and for those it offended I can only apologise profusely.
EDIT (17/02/05 11:58am): Toby Simmons has a great fix for login issue if you’re using Windows IIS
Did you hear the one about the 100lb girl and the 11lb burger? So she eat 6lbs of meat and 5lbs of “fixings,” roughly 10% of her body weight… Crazy, but true…
Apparently it was once true, well, sort of… via Michael Hanscom and Boing Boing.
There are pictures of Bill Gates from Teen Beat magazine, circa 1983, circulating via Monkey Methods.
Oh yeah Bill, make love to the camera, that’s it, work it baby, strike a pose…
Course, they don’t show you what happened 5 seconds later…
I’ll get me coat…
Michael Efford asks the million dollar question, where does RSS leave design? “It’s no longer “surfing”, it’s keeping updated. It’s letting the waves come to you. Waves of information once drenched in beautiful pixels, cleverly crafted by creative people all over the globe. Now they’re devoid of design – it’s all about the content.”
US military wanted “sex bomb.” “The gas would have made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The weapon’s developers said homosexual behaviour among troops would deal a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” blow to morale.”
On one hand we have Queen Latifah, a rap artist and actress, and on the other we have HRH Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen regant and Head of State of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Commander-in-Chief of the UK Armed Forces and Lord of Mann, now you would think it’s hard to mix the two up, but not in Alabama…
Because according to whoever runs the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, AL., they are one and the same… I know the Queen was hard up, having opened up Buckingham Palace for visitors and such likes, but how bad must things be if she’s hosting The Grammys? She could at least host a real awards show…
The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Minnesota Vikings 27-14. So the Falcons will travel to Philadelphia next week to play for a place in the Super Bowl…
The Falcons were firing on all cylinders with Warrick Dunn and Michael Vick both rushing for over 100 yards as the Falcons set a franchise record with 327 total rushing yards (one of 7 franchise records they broke tonight) and St. Louis had no answers at all.
Now either the Minnesota Vikings or Philadelphia Eagles stand between them and a spot in Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville.
Michael Hanscom has been doing this for that last few weeks and I thought I’d give it a shot. It’s an old meme that comes via The Republic of T.
The rules are simple: put your entire music playlist on random, and post the first ten songs your music player comes up with. I’ll try to provide links to the iTunes Music Store where possible.
I’ve done 11 as way of a bonus… (or a way to hide my stupidity)
So there we go, a bit of a strange mix, who knows what next week will throw up…
Phil and I went to see Elektra tonight, and so did most of Cumming judging by how busy the movie theater was… And we walked away thinking it was decidedly average.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as bad as most people would have you believe, but it’s not the best comic book adaptation, not by a long, looooooooooooooooooooong way. Anyways, it’s a few years removed from the events of Daredevil, Elektra (Jennifer Garner) is back from the dead and now an assassin for hire, and her next assignment forces her to make a decision that throws her into a battle between the forces of good and evil…
Now, for a 95 minute long film, it’s really quite slow in places, and some of the deaths Elektra dispences can only be described as cheap. There are inconsistances with the comic books, as Phil was quick to tell me, and it’s probably best watched as a rental.
The only saving graces are Stick (Terrence Stamp) playing pool and the red outfit Elektra wears (see above), as I said, decidedly average…
Ever wondered what your name would look like in Japanese? No? Oh well, if you ever have then Japanese Translator is the thing for you…
You may now refer to me as:
It is pronounced “GUREGORU“. (Consonants are pronounced more or less the same way as in English. “U” sounds like oo in hook, but with less rounding of the lips. “E” sounds like e in met. “O” sounds like o in old.)
You can also get it in various styles, whatever’s your poison…
Free beer that’s free as in speech… Vores Øl (Our Beer) is a Danish beer that’s been released under a Creative Commons License that covers the recipe and the bottle-art. [via]
ESPN pulls the plug on the current NHL, still in it’s lockdown, and proposes a new “ESPNHL.” A few good points is raised, such as a tiered individual team luxury tax that pays for promotion of the league and rules changes to make it more fan accessible. If only the NHL would consider even half of them…