Enemy of Entropy

Oh. That Would Do It! (That Problem With Posting to LJ)

8 March 2010, 11:31 pm. No Comments. Filed under Blogging.

I’ve tried all the dif­fer­ent plu­g­ins that claim to work with Word­Press for cross-​​posting to Live­Jour­nal, but recently I’ve got­ten errors from every­thing. I’ve asked for help from the authors in their forums and noth­ing seemed to be hap­pen­ing. And then I saw this: Banned Because of Live+Press’ Bad Behav­ior. That’s from the cur­rent main­tainer of Live+Press, the plu­gin I’ve had the best luck with over­all. Read on…

Skribit is a Go!

22 January 2010, 12:00 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Blogging.

If you’ve vis­ited here once or twice, you might have noticed that lit­tle thingie over there in the left-​​hand bar that asks, “What should I write about?” There’s a link to Skribit, where you can leave sug­ges­tions about the types of posts you’d like to see here.

Well, you too can get such a wid­get for your blog! Because Skribit is out of beta! So go check out their site, and see how their tools can help you.

What Happened to Zooomr?

15 March 2008, 11:10 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Geekery.

Does any­body know what hap­pened to Zooomr? They started out as a promis­ing com­peti­tor to Flickr, and I recall hear­ing good things about their API. Katie, Sam, and I joined back in 2006 when they were giv­ing away free, life­time Pro accounts.

I had linked to a photo on their servers in an old blog post, and noticed today that the link was bro­ken. I logged in and found that my account is un-​​Pro now, though Katie’s and Sam’s seem to have retained their Pro sta­tus. All of my pho­tos and my pro­file info are gone. Katie’s pro­file is blank. She seems to have one photo there, but I can’t open it. Sam has a few pho­tos, but again, I can’t open them.

I emailed tech sup­port, but I was think­ing maybe some­one else had heard some­thing about the com­pany that might be help­ful. I did notice that they seem to be asso­ci­ated with Zoho, and when you email tech sup­port a copy goes to a “feed­back” address at a .jp (Japan­ese) domain. Their “help” info resides on a Zoho wiki, which was down when I tried to access it. (I can’t get to any­thing at Zoho, in fact — glad I don’t rely on them!)

Crunch­base seems to con­sider Zooomr a going con­cern.

Sunday, T-​​a-​​Day3

3 February 2008, 11:29 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Blogging, College, Geekery, Reading.

I did more web­i­fy­ing today, and got all happy because I resolved a tem­plate prob­lem. I don’t “know” php, as in I don’t write my own scripts. I’m learn­ing more and more about it work­ing with other people’s tem­plates, and have got­ten to where I can mix and match from dif­fer­ent tem­plates to get the effects I want. I also spent some time in mysql, try­ing to clean up some of this site’s tables to make it load faster.

I also read a lit­tle, and I’m really, really try­ing to fin­ish the book I’m on before div­ing into the deli­cious stack of books my sweetie brought home from the library for me. I wrapped up the week’s class assign­ments, too. I wanted to stitch, but I was attacked by a rogue nap.

My project man­age­ment teacher released the study guide for the final, which is 3 – 4 weeks away (you can do it any time dur­ing week 8, and we just fin­ished week 4). Um, does any­body really study that far in advance? I’ve never been very dis­ci­plined about studying.

Sam is edit­ing a chap­ter of Fledg­ling, which he re-​​recorded because he was dis­pleased with the sound qual­ity. He edited Square One ear­lier. Sorry, Hope, but I don’t think he got to record the lat­est chap­ter of Heart of the Hunter :-(

It’s still Feb­ru­ary, right? The tem­per­a­ture was way up in the 70s today! It’s back down to 50 now — out­side. Inside, the temp is still too hot for sleep­ing com­fort­ably. Pout.

Are there any Word­Press geeks read­ing this? I could have sworn that I saw a plug-​​in that allowed com­menters to send a pri­vate mes­sage to a blog’s owner, sort of like hav­ing com­ments screened in LJ except that the owner doesn’t ever (couldn’t, as I under­stand it) make the “whis­per” pub­lic. I can’t find such a thing in the offi­cial plu­gin repos­i­tory at Word​Press​.org, though. Any­body know of such a thing? I don’t want to use a com­ment form, because of secu­rity con­cerns.1

1 All the com­ment plu­g­ins and forms I’ve seen use the web host to send the mes­sage, instead of the sender’s out­go­ing mail server, mak­ing it harder to get any­thing done about inap­pro­pri­ate messages.

Thing-​​a-​​Day 2

2 February 2008, 11:27 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Critters, Fun, Geekery, RPGs, Reading, Writing.

My cre­ative time today was spent web­mistress­ing. I tweaked some Word­Press tem­plates to work bet­ter, and moved more stuff over from my old site for­mat to Word­Press. It may not seem like much, but I always rewrite and update as I do that, so I fig­ure it counts.

Sam and I had lots of fun in our game tonight. It’s a lit­tle weird to real­ize that some­one is an avatar of a deity and that not only does he not know it, he’s nowhere near ready to real­ize it. Then there’s the whole issue of not let­ting that lit­tle fact slip at all, because an entire race of peo­ple is wait­ing for his return (and they really, really need him now, of course).

I really should go to the library tomor­row, but I don’t know if Sam will have time to drive me there. I have books to return and books on hold to pick up. I’d best go to bed now, to improve my chances of wak­ing early enough to ask him.

I need to give Kioshi some extra scritchies, though, and I’m think­ing about Jen and her fam­ily, who had to let go of their newest feline fam­ily mem­ber today — he had feline leukemia. I always think of our Andre and Tom-​​Tom when­ever feleuk comes up. I’m glad Kioshi didn’t catch it from his par­ents, as our babies and theirs prob­a­bly did. Please, vac­ci­nate all of your pets! Even if you don’t ever plan for them to go outside!

 

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