It looks like the plane has been delayed another few hours. My United flight out here wasn’t bad, but this one is terrible. I found a power outlet and I’ve set up camp with the laptop, wifi, and headphones so I’m just going to try to get some work done. Anyway, the WordPress Support forums have broken 100,000 posts.
In SF
I’ve been in San Francisco for a few days again and seen a lot of older friends like Tantek, MJ, Dave, and Dinah but also met some very cool new people like Toni, Jeremy, the lovely Cheyanne, and MJ’s sister Amy. Note that Amy’s site is Team Monkey, not T-Monkey or TeaMonkey. My flight to Houston is delayed a few hours, but thank goodness for wifi and Powerbook battery life. Finally getting around to setting up Dovecot locally on OS X.
Gallery: 10-23-2004
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Gallery: 10-22-2004
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Nike Uses WordPress
The Daily Snkr Blog is a new event blog for Nike done by the Blog Agency in France. Thanks to Stéphane Wharton and Jean-Luc Raymond for writing in about this. Also thanks to the Blog Agency for using WP for this project.
Gallery: 10-21-2004
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Gallery: 10-20-2004
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BlogsNow
BlogsNow, another realtime blog aggregator. That’s Blogs Now, not Blog Snow.
WP in Jakarta
My Dad is in Jakarta and has signed up for the WordPress Meetup there. The world is so small.
Dovecot
Gallery: 10-19-2004
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Drupal.org gets a make-over | drupal.org
Blue Skies
Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see. From the amazing Robert Glasper, a fellow HSPVA alumni. (Dig the enclosure action.)
Flu
Fixing Explorer Restart
Since my tragedy the other day I’ve been pretty busy working on things. My laptop was fine after the reboot, but the desktop was badly broken. It would start up just fine but once it started Explorer (the desktop, start bar, etc) would restart once every 3 seconds or so. I finally got it working, so I thought I would outline my steps here for the sake of anyone else who may have had a similar problem.
- First I wanted to stop the explorer restarts and so I hit ctrl+alt+delete and went to the task manager. Then I played a game of computer whack-a-mole. If you click on the constantly respawning explorer.exe task and end the process before it kills itself, it’ll stop restarting. Luckily my desktop isn’t too fast so I was able to catch it.
- At this point I decided that something must have gone wrong with the update, possible because the computer was on an old version of XP (SP1 or earlier) so the best remedy would probably be updating again. Unfortunately Internet Explorer wouldn’t run. I was able to start up Firefox through the task manager by going
File > New task (Run...)
and navigating to Firefox.exe on my hard drive but though it ran You can’t use Windows Update on Firefox, so I was still out of luck. - While in the Run file dialog I noticed that my Samba network shares were mounted, so I could get files onto the desktop that way.
- I happened to have a copy of the downloadable Service Pack 2 file (270 MB) from Microsoft that’s much better than the network install thing. I honestly don’t remember what hoops I jumped through on their download site to get this or I would point you there. It’s a great thing to have on a CD.
- I copied that file to the Linux server and then using the Run dialog to open it from the mapped network drive on the desktop.
- I used task manager to shut down everything non-essential that was running in the background.
- The service pack installer ran. It came down to the reboot time and I crossed my fingers. When Windows finally restarted everything worked fine again.
There was probably a better way to do this, but this is just the path I took.
Also see these instructions for disabling automatic reboots but leaving automatic updating.
Buying TextMate
I registered my copy of TextMate. I don’t use it (or code on the Mac) full-time yet but I really like the direction it’s going so I wanted to support that. Also the blog with WordPress so what’s not to love? 😉
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Jay on WP
“Movable Type and WordPress are not competitors, but instead two complementary forces in the same movement: That of enabling and exponentially growing the personal publishing phenomenon.” — Jay Allen’s excellent comment.
Dive Outta Mark
Mark takes a break. (Permanently?)
TextDriven
TextDrive is going to support WordPress officially. We often run into people whose WP experience is mediocre because their host provides such a barren web enviroment there’s not much we can do. By highlighting hosts like TextDrive who really “get it” everyone wins. Update: Forum thread about the same.