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BRB

Not really technical difficulties as such, but mojo reminded me I haven’t updated my WordPress installation in a thousand years. Shouldn’t be any problems, but I may be down for a while.

Oh, and I have to manually reload my custom smilies. Don’t try smiling for a while; you’ll look stupid.

Comments


Comment from mojo
Time: June 10, 2015, 9:24 pm

Anything in the logs? And don’t say “What logs”, that’s my line.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2015, 9:43 pm

EWWWWW…my dashboard looks all different!!

Wait, what logs? I didn’t read the whole article.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2015, 9:43 pm

🙂


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2015, 9:43 pm

Yep, my smilies are fucked. ‘Ang on.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2015, 10:01 pm

Hm. Not sure why the smilies aren’t working. I’ve replaced the defaults with my weasely ones, but I’m getting broken image icons.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 10, 2015, 10:28 pm

path? Maybe they moved. Or permissions.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 10, 2015, 10:31 pm

Oh jeez, brokenback paths.


Comment from Nina
Time: June 10, 2015, 10:41 pm

I hope the blog is paying you some overtime for dealing with this, Stoaty!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2015, 10:48 pm

Exactly twice my usual rate, Nina. I’d smile, but I can’t.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 10, 2015, 10:53 pm

Now I feel bad.

Are you using wpemoji?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2015, 11:03 pm

No, these are some I made myself. What I do is find the directory where the WP ones live, wipe them and replace a few with my own. So the default is no graphical smiley.

Don’t worry about it, mojo. It’s no big and I’ll get it straightened out. I swear, I bet I hadn’t updated the blog software in five years, so you done good reminding me.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 10, 2015, 11:18 pm

Ok, I guess.

BTW: brokenback means like source”:{“wpemoji”:”http:\/\/sweasel.com\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-emoji.js?ver=4.2.2″

Escaped slashes.

Usually caused by unix code on win, or vice versa.


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: June 10, 2015, 11:22 pm

I swear, I bet I hadn’t updated the blog software in five years

Ace has ya beat :+)

You should actually make a point to keep it updated…my older Joomla installs that I haven’t updated forever are always getting hacked and turned into spambots. The only way to ward them off is to keep up with the fixes. The downside of opensource is they have the codez and can look for weaknesses,,,


Comment from Stephen Falken
Time: June 10, 2015, 11:51 pm

Please don’t ever add that annoying code that automatically reloads the web site every 30 seconds. Also, thank-you for not having flashy ads slowing everything to a crawl making life miserable.


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: June 11, 2015, 1:09 am

I uninstalled Flash on all my boxes to cut back on the irritation…doing my part to make them go the HTML5 / JavaScript route :+)


Comment from Jeff Gauch
Time: June 11, 2015, 1:15 am

What I want to know is where can I get the image in the post on a T-shirt?


Comment from Stark Dickflüßiᵹ
Time: June 11, 2015, 1:22 am

I uninstalled Flash on all my boxes to cut back on the irritation

No adobe products on my computer at all, ever. The fact that this means I don’t have flash is a heavensent bonus, too. Then you find ways to run browsers that disable redirects & auto-reload. And you surf the web the way God intended: as text. (John 1:1 is not talking about a mircofost product)


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: June 11, 2015, 2:03 am

Not to worry about the smilies. I like the plain ol’ ASCII versions better anyway. (-:


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: June 11, 2015, 3:03 am

I use lots of Adobe stuff on a day to day basis, they aren’t that evil. They bought Macromedia which created Flash…they kinda slacked off keeping it current and fixing hacker exploits and his Majesty King Jobs of Apple ordered Flash’s execution.

It was advertisers that abused the crap out of Flash…they’ll soon abuse the crap out of HTML 5 too and we’ll have to start keeping JavaScript disabled…it’s getting used for more and more stuff though so you might not have a good experience on the web without it.

Yeah!…lets go back to 80×25 monochrome character displays!…easier to program!

I prefer the plaintext smilies myself =:O :+)


Comment from mojo
Time: June 11, 2015, 3:11 am

Right click
“Save image as…”
Stretch it some
Go to Zazzle (or wherever)
Use pic for custom shirt.


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: June 11, 2015, 4:18 am

Not enough resolution, I don’t think…it’ll pixelate.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 11, 2015, 4:45 am

How about a little musica?

Tenesee Plates

I woke up in a hotel and I didn’t know what to do
I turned the tv on and wrote a letter to you
The news was talkin’ ’bout a dragnet up on the interstate
Said they were lookin’ for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

Since I left California baby, things have gotten worse
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
Tell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
Down here they’re lookin’ for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside
She was shiverin’ in the dark, so I offered her a ride
Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire

If they’d known what we was up to they wouldn’a let us in
When we landed in Memphis like original sin
Up Elvis Presley boulevard to the Graceland gates
See we were lookin’ for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates

Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
And there wasn’t one Lincoln and there wasn’t one Dodge
And there wasn’t one Japanese model or make
Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates

She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
And ever since that day she’s been living in between
I was never king of nothin’ but this wild weekend
Anyway he wouldn’t care, hell he gave them to his friends

Well this ain’t no hotel I’m writin’ you from
It’s the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Moun-tain
Where yours sincerely’s doin’ five to eight –
Stampin’ out my time makin’ Tennessee plates.
— John Hiatt


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 11, 2015, 7:39 am

No worries, Stephen. I *hate* sites that auto-reload.


Comment from Skandia Recluse
Time: June 11, 2015, 9:46 am

One day this upgrade thing will go to far.
I have perfectly useable ‘386 hardware in the basement, but no software will run on them any longer.

Hell, I have a ‘286 laptop.


Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 11, 2015, 12:25 pm

Looks like Round 73 is over. m takes the dick with Christopher Lee.


Comment from m
Time: June 11, 2015, 12:33 pm

Am rather sad to claim this. Win number 2!


Comment from Weasel on the road
Time: June 11, 2015, 1:17 pm

Yup. Looks like a new Dead Pool tomorrow.

Him. I thought he was older.


Comment from Deborah HH
Time: June 11, 2015, 1:19 pm

@Skandia Recluse. You should curate your own electronics exhibit! Husband and I are still heartbroken that we pitched/gave away our early typewriters, cameras, PDAs, mobile phones, and computers/printers. You’d cry hot bitter tears if I told you about the cameras I foolishly let slip through my fingers—including my first: A Kodak Brownie StarMite that I got for Christmas in 1962. (not to mention a Zenith Transoceanic Wave Magnet Radio that I am still grieving over.)


Comment from mojo
Time: June 11, 2015, 5:13 pm

Did’ya see the Apple I on auction?


Comment from Veeshir
Time: June 11, 2015, 5:53 pm

That pic is awesome except the hands really creep me out.
Not sure why, maybe it’s the idea of a weasel with opposable thumbs.

Why does wordpress say that “opposable” is spelled wrong?


Comment from Skandia Recluse
Time: June 11, 2015, 7:16 pm

Oh Deborah HH, I feel your heart ache. I have also done housecleaning, including books. Which is why I have a house full of junk I can’t stand to throw away. None of it of any value.


Comment from Veeshir
Time: June 12, 2015, 5:21 pm

The Weasel at the top no longer runs when you hover the mouse over it.

🙂


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 12, 2015, 6:01 pm

Yeah it does, Veeshir. It does for me, anyhow. It only works inside comment threads, though. Not on the front page.

Smilies still busted, though. I’ll have to try and have a poke at that over the weekend.

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