Errors

Posted on August 21, 2010

During the past week this website has been down for a database problem. It turns out some of the tables crucial to the running of WordPress required “repair”. Apparently, there is even a “REPAIR TABLE” command in MySQL. I’d never had to use it before, so I didn’t know it existed. Pretty handy thing to have. The tables are repaired and the blog is working again. I’m still not sure why it happened, but if it happens again, I’ll know what to do.

Now I have to clean out the spam queue.

Haiku to go

Posted on January 31, 2010

Last year I bought the domains gottahavacuppamocha.info and gottahavacuppamocha.mobi, but haven’t done much with them. A few weeks ago, I set up another WordPress blog at the .mobi site, but one that only has the haiku.

Since starting this a few years ago, I’ve seen over 600 films and done a review haiku for each one. I’ve toyed with the idea about putting them in a book, and that may still happen one of these days, but until then it seemed like a good idea to create a separate site just for the haiku. This way, a person can read through the haiku, without having to read the other posts.

The site, http://gottahavacuppamocha.mobi/haiku has over 200 haiku at the moment and I’ll be posting more in the days and weeks to come. Since I’m also learning about iPhone apps, it’s possible there may be an “app for that” in the future.

Photos. Galleries.

Posted on June 19, 2009

It’s been quite awhile, so I updated the gallery to the latest version of ZenPhoto. It’s supposed to work well with WordPress via some plugins. At the moment, it’s only a few photos, but I’ve got a ton more photos to process and add. Plus, there will also be some 3d stuff, graphic design, and so on.

I recently got a flatbed scanner that also does film and slides, so the plan is to convert old photos, slides, and maybe negatives, into digital form. Even if they don’t end up being posted (to protect the innocent ô_o), it will be nice to get them scanned in.

Hopefully this will also give me incentive to come up with another theme to unify the look of WordPress and ZenPhoto. At the very least, the thumbnails can be pulled into WordPress like this. It’s a start.

WordPress 2.8 upgrade

Posted on June 11, 2009

WordPress 2.8 came out yesterday afternoon and I just finished the upgrade. For the past few versions, WordPress has become one of the most user-friendly pieces of software I’ve seen. It seems well thought out and well-constructed.

WordPress has a tool called Upgrade in the Admin panel, which allows people to easily upgrade or reinstall the WordPress code. No FTP needed, since it’s as simple as clicking a button. However, it’s not problem-free.

I have this blog for myself and a test blog I use for work. I logged into this blog and there was nothing new – there was no notice about the new version. Logging into the test blog, there were two banners mentioning the upgrade. Upgrading the test blog was virtually effortless, but I was puzzled by the lack of a notice on gottahavacuppamocha. The Upgrade tool said the blog was using 2.7.1 and that it was the latest version. On a hunch, I clicked on the Re-install button. WordPress 2.7.1 was reinstalled, but when it finished, there was a notice about the 2.8 version. I clicked on the button and let it upgrade. The upgrade went easy, but I had to trick WordPress to do so.

Still, WordPress is far more user-friendly than MediaWiki. MediaWiki is easier to setup, but WordPress is easier to maintain. WP isn’t perfect, but it’s damn close.

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Time for an update

Posted on February 14, 2009

Gottahavacuppamocha will be down for a bit for maintenance and upgrades. The files are being backed up as I write. WordPress has a new version out with some security improvements and other enhancements. I might try out a new skin to mark the occasion :-)

Also, I want to see if there are any better WordPress plugins for Twitter. For regular posts, it sends a tweet to @lafnlab whenever I post something on the blog. However, it doesn’t do this for posts that are scheduled, such as the Review Haiku posts. :-( Since there are so many of those scheduled (’til the end of March, at the moment), it would be nice if the blog would send a tweet for each new post.

Twitter killer kicks the bucket

Posted on December 2, 2008

SixApart buys Pownce

Just as well, I guess. There’s too many social networking sites/apps, it’s hard to decide which ones are worthwhile. Since SixApart is a competitor to WordPress, I’m not interested in transitioning to their service.

Tagging pays off

Posted on January 26, 2008

I guess my tagging the articles paid off in an unexpected way. I was just going through the spam messages in the moderation queue and found one that read exploitation films with a link to some other site. Of course, it was spam, so I deleted it, but I thought it was funny because it was very unexpected.

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