I was wondering why I couldn’t send out mail via my mail server, but I couldn’t figure it out all night… until this morning. Turns out I needed to reverse the last 2 digits of my mail server’s port to get everything rolling. So for those needing a laugh, feel free to laugh at my expense. LOL!
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Idea: Getting an Office Phone for the Blog?
I have been debating on the idea of making an office phone line for this blog. This ends up being a sweet thing, as I can pass out the phone number to the public and have them call at their desire. The best part is I can close the phone for the day and just send it all to voice mail to catch up later. This way, it leaves me an open line when I want, but the ability to keep my normal phone from being called at late or odd hours. The cost is pretty much free and that’s the reason that I am playing with the idea.
Anyone have any thoughts?
(So…) Victory is mine!
…My blog seems to be fucked to hell. Pardon my language, but I can’t bloody figure out why the main page is constantly going to hell, while the individual pages are fine. I have thrown my question to the WordPress support community and hopefully an answer will be coming soon. I can say one thing, I have not mucked about with any of the sites files other than dropping in new themes and plug-ins.
Here’s to hoping that someone can help me.
UPDATE @ 9:24am: It seems to be triggered by my “Personal” category. I can’t seem to put a finger on anything else but that… I don’t know if I should kill the tag and recreate it or what, but that seems to be the root of the problem… I am going to attempt to delete that tag and see if it remedy’s things and then try to recreate a category in hopes of the problem fixing itself. If anyone is a WordPress fanatic who may know something about my issue, feel free to comment. Part of me thinks that it could be a damaged MySQL database and I’d be too damn scared to even begin touching that…
UPDATE @ 9:35am: Deleting the “Personal” category tag seemed to excaberate the problem to the “Uncategorized” category. I have recreated the category and will reorganize the posts to where they belong. It probably may not fix a thing, unfortunately.
How sweet it is to establish control on the blog again… Turns out that doing a copy-paste from a .doc file opened in Abiword borked my entire blog. I will be saving my mobile works from my phone in .txt files next time. I still have a few W3C errors, but I can’t quite pinpoint them. All I can say is… it’s good to have the blog fixed.
Technical Difficulties…
I am going to attempt to reinstall Dark Light on my WordPress blog in hope to restore the font… The borked font is making me a bit nutty… if it doesn’t work, I may just have to search for a new theme.
If the place looks broken, pardon the mess.
UPDATE: I found the Connexion theme from WP Themes and this may just work for now… I hope it is a little better than the chaos with Dark Light borking on me.
Seeking Feedback: Is it just me or has the font gone to hell with this layout?
Last night I had installed the new Linux headers for Ubuntu and a few other kernel based updates, but I didn’t notice until last night that the blog’s font went from Trebuchet MS at 11 pixels in gray to Times New Roman in black. Before the kernel upgrade the blog looked great… Now, the blog looks like garbage to me.
If anyone can tell me if the blog looks the same or if it looks like crap, please let me know. I may just have to change up themes to get crap functioning if it looks like crap.
-Zero
A New Home and A New Haven
My friend Merinda hooked me up with a discount to Dreamhost to begin my professional musings and maybe some personal works. I thank her for her kindness and hope that my viewers will grow with time.
As for me, I would like to say a friendly hello to any potential viewers stopping by to see my site. I plan to focus serious articles on things like technology reviews to be on Linux distros, video games, mobile phones. Every now and then, there may be a personal post or rant from my life and even goof off a bit. This site will also be home to my “logs” of the day for things like my “fitness diary” or any sort of trials (i.e. 1 month with random tech item, etc).
For newcomers of my blog… Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Zero and I am just an enthusiast about life, technology, cars, and open source software. My passions are games, medicine, driving, computer & electronic modifications, and wine tasting. I am quite approachable and kind to all walks of life as experiences can open up the mind. I am a very passionate individual who seeks to learn as much as I can by immersion. For the curious, here’s what my “gear” as of today is comprised of…
- Dell XPS m140 laptop – powered by Ubuntu Linux
- Smartphone: Sony Ericsson P990i with a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo (World Edition, unlocked)
- Beater Phone: Sony Ericsson W300i (AT&T branded but unlocked)
- Sony PSP Slim (PSP-2001) in Piano Black with a 512mb Memory Stick Pro Duo
- Nintendo DS lite in Onyx
I have decided to host privately due to the restrictive nature of Vox imposing on the freedoms of my friends and I feel this would hinder the growth of the blog to the general public. Unfortunately, WordPress developers have not yet found a way to import posts from Vox over… With over 100 entries, that could be tedious to do by hand. Until a solution can be found, I will just hot-link any curious readers to my previous blog: My Old Home
Feel free to drop a line and say hello if you wish!
-Zero