Archive for the ‘ Site Management ’ Category
I will shortly be making my gloriatial and spectaculary return to regular substantive blogging. I have much in the way of Yuletide dramatics to relate. Topics will include: The Bhutto Assassination My Sister’s Graduation My Sister’s Job Interview Families & The Holidays Gift-Giving I will also be cleaning up all these half-finished movie reviews.
I am happy to announce that the unplanned, unannounced hiatus on which I have been for the past week or so is finally over! Excitement! Unfortunately, the planned, announced hiatus on which I am now going has only just begun. Unfortunate! The last few weeks of the semester are at hand, and will be followed inevitably and diabolically by the extremely unpleasant exam week. I’m sure there are fives, maybe even tens of you out there who have missed me this past week, and, alas, you shall all just have to go on missing me for a while longer. Woe! I shall see [ . . . ]
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Netflix has gone and done something wonky that messed up the Netflix widget and broke the site for a while. Lovely if(isset($var)) statements have fixed the problem, but the queue still doesn’t show. At least, not from where I’m sitting. It might be a magpie issue. Your cache may vary. Either Netflix changed the format of the RSS feed with my queue in it, thereby messing up the regular expressions the Netflix widget uses to extract pertinent movie data from the feed, resulting in a null set of results, and which will require actual work on my part to fix, or my cache [ . . . ]
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The Seneschal regrets to announce that the MySQL database is behaving in a manner most unbecoming a MySQL database. The posting of comments is directly affected. If you receive a MySQL error when trying to post a comment, please try again. And likely, again and again and again. It will eventually go through. Just click the “back” button on your browser and your comment should still appear entered in the comment entry box. Just re-enter your name, email and URL (as needed) and reevaluate the CAPTCHA and click submit again. The Seneschal suggests that commentators copy the text of their comments to the clipboard [ . . . ]
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The Chamberlain announces the addition of the movie ratings database and the Netflix queue widget. Please see the Movies page. The Chamberlain also begs forgiveness for this wholly un-called-for weekend post. ~Chamberlain of Content
The Chamberlain announces the completion of the Astrolabe. Please see the Clocks page. ~Chamberlain of Content
The Majordomo would like to express gratitude to The Objective Standard, Rational Jenn, and ObjectivismOnline, who have generously added this site to their blogrolls, and especially to Mr. Van Horn who, in addition, featured this site in a recent Quick Roundup. ~Majordomo of Links
