Boo Sickness! Recipe, Word Geeking, Reviews
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Reading, Writing
This not-flu or whatever is exceedingly tiresome. I should think it would be enough to live with the day to day stuff, let alone put up with this. Then again, nobody has ever claimed in my hearing that the world is fair.
I haven’t succeeded in holding any thoughts in my head long, so you’re in for randomness again this entry.
I have no idea why the main article was linked from ZDNet, but doesn’t this cheddar and apple sandwich seem yummy? I wonder how it would be with ham? I used to have a really good recipe for a sausage and apples dish, but I know I haven’t cooked it in the last decade. Maybe I could dig it out of my ancient recipe box? There are few ways to go wrong with cooked apples, as far as I can tell.
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Calling a WordPress Guru
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Geekery
I’m still having trouble with the MySQL database for this blog. It’s set up just like every other site we have, but I keep having odd timeouts and MySQL errors with this installation. I wasn’t even able to add books to Now Reading for most of the day!
I read about someone else who seemed to be having a similar problem, and tried his fix—a custom copy of wp-db.php. That didn’t help, so I reverted to the standard file.
Right now, I’ve got almost every plug-in and widget disabled, and the posts I wrote on Tuesday and Wednesday are finally visible. I guess I’ll have to go through the plug-ins, enabling them one by one again, to see if one of them is the problem. (I haven’t had any error messages indicating a plug-in problem, but…)