Month: January 2008

Falcons in Staten Island

a peregrineI’m really enjoying the accounts of wild birds my dad has been writing in his blog
We don’t get much wildlife in Brooklyn,though once I did see a fat raccoon trucking under the BQE.It scaled a chain-link fence in 2 seconds and both Bozzio and I were quite amazed.Bozzio wasn’t at all sure it wasn’t a cat.But I knew.That was 2 years ago and the most excitement since has been spotting a black squirrel in Fort Greene Park.
Check out his blog and and maybe even buy a book. His blog does lean toward political views but his books do not.

Why do contributers to coder’s forums act so darn superior?

I don’t think all coders who contribute to forums on a regular basis & actually help people are all bad-it’s the ones who take that arch air with you as if their words were golden and if you dare to question their advice, or worse misunderstand, then you are a poop-head, and they have no qualms about telling you just that.
I will spend hours looking through Google searches before I get distraught enough to go to a forum for answers,because I don’t like they way people are treated in coder forums.
If you want to spend your valuable time helping people who are too stupid to figure it out for themselves,then that is your choice. But please note that not everyone speaks tech-and for the app/process/code in question there may be a 1000 technical terms for which they aren’t yet familiar.
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User Error!

I’ve been occupied 100% with a host change between sister co.s with a wordpress site and theme I built for my dad.
I got the domain in my little fist, I got it registered at the new host as the primary domain,I got everything set up just so…except for one little thing:the url was still showing up with the username the host gives out-this is the default url-it allows a new signer upper to load their new webspace without a domain name. The site was loading as username.hostcompany.com instead of stonestreetpress.com.I thought it was because I had to be able to transfer domain registration to Tucows from Godaddy. Something I can’t do for 60 days because the domain was just transferred to me from another GoDaddy account holder.

Whew! I wrote a lot of emails to tech support,spoke with them via chat and on the phone and none of them could tell me why this was happening. One of their tech support even sunk so low as to point the domain using a frameset redirect! If you are ever given the option to do this, never use it. Of course do it if you don’t care if your site loads in quirksmode, is search engine optimised or search engine friendly or if paths to images will be broken.
It was thanks to a user in the host forum that this issue was resolved.
He suggested that I check the way WP was configured. Aha. When I installed WP it grabbed the default url because the real domain hadn’t yet been listed in the new account. A simple change to stonestreetpress.com and the problem went away.

Just like that.

My error, my oversight.

I am just so glad to have this fixed. I can now go back to what I am actually good at,whatever that might be. Just kidding.