Reason: PEBCAK. I didn’t have the user authorized to post … this, after not having the API open to allow posting.

Gosh, I R SMRT.

GAAAAAAAH! UPDATE, DAMMIT!

Everything that used to be on IJSM.org? Should be here. I’ll be consolidating a few other things here, too.

At the end of the day, it didn’t make a lot of sense to have all the places to write that I did. So I’ve consolidated. I still have some work to do around here, but …

My apologies for confusion.

Holy crap, I’ve been blathering here for seven years.

Doesn’t seem that long.

I’ve disabled auto-tweeting back here, and my Twitter is now friends-only.

This is mainly for reasons directly related to my blood pressure. There are … things I would say there that I don’t need everyone and their mother knowing. Feel free to friend me on Twitter, but I will probably be choosy with who I friend in return. ‘kay? ‘kay.

A few things have been going on behind the scenes:

1. I’ve been categorizing the As-Yet Unfiled Entries over the last month. I’ll finish next week. I finally made it happen by just putting a recurring task in Tasks Pro to do 15 a day. I started with 450+ and am now down to 90. 29 Jan: DONE!
2. I killed the nested categories today. Took a lot of SQL to map nested categories back to their parents, then create tags with WP’s category-to-tag converter. Sucked having to do that by hand, though. One would think that the category-to-tag importer would have an option for doing just that in the conversion; most people that had nested categories, like me, would probably go to the device of parent category as category, child categories as tags. Meh.
3. I’ve been moving some stuff over from GFMorris.com. That took more SQL-fu, but I finally had an a-ha moment with joins today. I mean, I generated a working join on my own. It was a nice moment to understand WTF the syntax was doing for once.

Been a good thing to occupy time during conference calls today…

You’ll note that there are now Google AdSense ads down in the footer. I’m trying to defray my server lease costs [which run about ... ugh ... $4000/yr], and subscription fees for the forums I run and sub-leasing space to friends isn’t defraying the full cost. [Not even close.] So sorry … you get ads.

I’ve tried to find a WordPress plugin that chooses to show ads only to those folks coming in from Google, or perhaps only to people who don’t already have a comment on the site [as the comment sets a cookie locally], but … no dice.

1645: I ran the numbers, and the “not even close” is like $1500. :wince: Why do I do this again?

I’ve been spending time with Alex King’s 404 Notifier over the last week or two slowly fixing 404 errors. A lot of mine have to do with images: I’ve had two or three collection points for images, and none of those were ever “right” compared to how images are organized by WP now. [Finally, WP's solution is good enough that it's just what I use. I never fire up an FTP client anymore.] I sat down this morning to work on that, and a couple hours later, I’m done.

This was the perfect I’m-sick-and-don’t-want-to-deal-with-anyone task. Honestly, I feel a whole lot better today; I think my left ear will be fairly cleared up by tomorrow, enough that I could go to work and function normally. Ever since Friday night, I’ve been stressed on how I’d work at the office, since … well, it would be hard to answer the phone, and I do a lot of that. But I hear a whole lot better in my left ear today, and my right ear seems to be improving as well [although the wick has come out of it, so I probably need to go back and have another re-inserted].

This is your standard “I’ve upgraded, please report bugs” post.

And yes, I know about the ob_gzhandler issue, folks. It’s intermittent, and I haven’t even begun to have the time to debug.

Folks who look at the front page will note that all of my links are back in the sidebar now, rather than just a random sampling of many of the link categories. Given that I carry a large number of posts on the main page, it’s just fine to do this. I’m also working on my links, but man … that’s really going to take some work. FeedLounge has radically increased my ability to aggregate stuff and handle the data, so … dang, I’m out of date with these.

So, two things: 1) if I should be linking to you, and I’m not, leave a comment, and 2) if you have something you think I should check out, let me know.

Don’t mind if I do. Happiness is a server with two functioning hard drives.

In other fun news, STS-121 is now on for a 1 Jul launch, Ghana defeated the Czechs, and the U.S. is tied in the 35th minute with the Italians. Esta vida es buena.

I finished all the backups about 0130 this morning. Predictably, I was awake at 0630; unfortunately, I wasn’t able to use all the evidence I had of the drive failing to short-circuit the NOC’s escalation procedures. This place goes dark at 1300; I hope that the server will be back online tonight, but I wouldn’t start getting nervous before, oh, 1300 tomorrow.

One of the hard drives in miller.rocksmyfaceoff.net, the server that hosts IJSM.org as well as, oh, THE REST OF MY ENTIRE LIFE, is dying a slow, painful death. The NOC is going to pull the server offline at 1300 CDT tomorrow to do an analysis; as I understand their escalation procedures, they have to do an analysis to prove that it’s bad before they can replace it at no charge. Joyful.

I will spend tonight and tomorrow morning making backups onto the NAS account I have; I do this routinely anyway, but the HD that’s failing is the backup HD, which makes it kinda hard for me to trust its backups.

Thankfully, no data has been lost. You may proceed to watch me lose my shit all weekend long at rocksmyfaceoff.info.

A side effect of getting Planet configured on GFMorris.net is that I now have a unified Atom feed for all of my stuff. I’m still determining what all will go in there, but it’s also going to include stuff I write on group Weblogs, etc.

GFMorris.net … ego personified!

Holler if I broke anything, here or anywhere else on my sites.

This is my favorite part of St. Patrick’s Day—it makes it dead simple to remember that it’s IJSM’s “birthday”.

True to form, I’m not wearing green today. I have no need of doing so. That said … the good bottle of Jameson will be a little emptier tonight!