Technophobia

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

When the muse hits, I have to go with it. New template is up - clear your cache and refresh if it looks weird.

Let me know if I missed anything.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

I’ll keep this template for a little while longer, but I have the creative bug now so I’ve begun work on the new look. I spent some time at lunch looking at stock photos at FreeFoto.com and I downloaded several as possible header graphics. Now I’ll need to figure out coordinating colors for the fonts, backgrounds, blockquote box, title bars. Then comes the work of developing the header and the sidebar titles. I figure I’ll get something ready to go in early February.

I’m inspired by one particular photo because it’s lovely and the colors are great. So we’ll see how it works out.

Stay tuned…

Monday, January 23, 2006

So you tell me, would you like this theme to stay for a bit longer or do you want the spring colors back?

The gal who was going to create a new skin for me never returned my final inquiries to her, so I’m assuming that will never happen. Shame, too, because her theme was quite different and lovely.

Anyone up to the task of creating a new theme?

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.0.7. Go now to download the upgrades and install them post-haste.

Be aware that many extensions and themes are no longer compatible with the new versions. The cool thing about the new Firefox is that it will automatically disable those that won’t work so your browser will function properly. In other words, the upgrade is seamless.

Monday, November 21, 2005

You should be seeing the wedding template. If you don’t see it, then refresh your page or clear out your cache and start over.

White satin background with elements of navy blue, silver, and white. This is my wedding in web format…

We’re under 40 days from The Big Day.

Now that this is done, I shall go upstairs for bead work and TV.

Good night.

I decided to tweak the template as we get down the wire on the wedding. So the basic format will remain, but the colors will change to those in my wedding. Nothing fancy, just different. All will be returned to the normal spring colors when we get back from the honeymoon.

What’s a bummer is that you can’t really do silver on the web. So it will be shades of gray, but that’s close enough.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

For the past week I have been unable to access Outside the Beltway from my office computer. My home blogging has been so sporadic over the past couple of weeks, that I can’t remember if I was able to get to James’ page there or not. I seem to be getting a 412 Precondition Failure page, which I had never seen before.

Anyone else having a problem (looks at Robbo, who shares the same network)?

Anyone know how I can get around this?

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

There’s something wonky with the blog today. Actually, I’ve run into problems for the past several weeks and my host tech support says I have apache processes that are not completing or something like that.

Then today, I got word via email that the comment page is acting up, but it seems to only be acting up on one particular post.

Now I’m getting 403 pages when I try to look at my blacklist or whitelist modules.

Anyone savvy with EE have a clue what could be going on? How to fix the apache process problems?

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Seems my blog was running “a large number of active apache processes to the point there are too many open, many are in a stuck state because of on the server side of things, called a segmentation fault, usually its an issue in php scripts that cause this” according to the tech support person who worked my help ticket last night.

Techies, anyone have the time or inclination to help me figure out where I have out of date scripts that may be causing this?

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

I got an email from a reader who said my RSS feed hasn’t been updating since January. For those of you who read this blog via RSS, is this true?

Any suggestions for how I need to fix this?

I have no clue how this module works and reading the user guide stumped me completely.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

I need to spread the word that my old blog (freakinjen.us) is no longer alive. My former host finally pulled the plug, which means visitors will get the dreaded 404 page.

There are several folks who have me linked with the old URL still. If you would be so kind, I would appreciate your assistance with reminding people to update their blogrolls with the jenspeaks.com domain.

Thanks so much!

Saturday, August 06, 2005

We have a conundrum here at the house. My computer clock and what I see on the blog match - currently 1:51pm ET. My father’s and mother’s blog times are showing one hour behind while their computer clocks are correct.

What time do you see on this post? Please indicate your time zone. If you’re on the east coast you should see 1:51pm.

- it’s not too late to make a pledge!

Free Tea For All Reasons tea for anyone who sponsors me.
If you pledge up to $25, you will get one bag of tea.
If you pledge over $25, you will get two bags of tea.

LATER: I updated to EE 1.3.1 this morning - the setting for Daylight Savings must have been set back to “no” in that install. Thanks.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I have no clue why the sidebar is dropping. It happens on occasion and it’s frustrating, but I can’t figure out why. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I’m aware of the problem.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

So I attempted to update the blog to EE 1.3 and it’s broken. *sigh*

What’s weird is that the control panel is lacking in the css and the linklist module won’t work. I’ve removed the linklist code so that the blog page will at least open. Blogrolling back-up is in place for now.

Anyone upgraded to EE 1.3 that can explain what I missed to cause the basic looking cp?

UPDATE: Fixed the linklist problem. I still need advice on the Netflix plugin if anyone knows of a bug with that.

Oh yeah, and let me say that I like the changes with the new version. The cp is cleaner, with tabs to expand the items you want.

If you’re thinking about switching your blogware, think about Expression Engine - it’s worth the chunk of money you’ll spend. And pMachine Hosting is excellent as well.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

1. Somebody please tell me that The 4400 was a repeat on Sunday. Because my DVR did not record it if it was a new episode.

2. I’m trying to use the Netflix plugin but it’s not working. Anyone want to check under the EE hood on that one for me? Nevermind. I think I figured it out. Nope. Still need help on this one.