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November 4, 2006

Two Blogs in One: A Good Hack Gone Bad

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 1:43 pm

Two Blogs in One

On Tuesday Open Comment Nights while the comments are flying at one or more per second, Joe says Successful-Blog has a time warp. Come and see for yourself. He seems to be onto something. Yesterday I thought Is there a space warp too? It sure felt that way.

The problem started Thursday night — folks could see their own comments, but couldn’t see mine. Had I fallen out of my blog into a black hole? No, a server move met my way of finding unique problems to solve.

Not everyone could say they had two, two, two blogs in one.

Thank you, Jeremy for telling me what was going on. I didn’t know you were moving house, yet you stopped to find out, so I would know.

Thank you, HART for the screen shot of what you saw — it helped solve the problem with fewer words.

What I Saw What You Saw that HART Sent

A Good Hack Gone Bad

The smartest technology architect from b5media, who had plenty to do, Aaron Brazell saw that I was still on the old server blog. He found a forgotten hack in my computer. It was made months back to fix an issue I hardly remember.

Helpful hacks can be problems waiting to happen. This was a case of a good hack gone bad.

We deleted that hack. Suddenly, I was back on the blog inside your computer.
Thank you, thank you, Aaron. I so appreciate every minute you spent.

Gosh it’s great to be back. Yeah I know, most folks say I’m lost in space anyway. So what’s new?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

PS. Please don’t ask why I never thought to check one of the other 8 million computers in our house. I was lost in space. I didn’t know where I was.

Of course, when I finally told my husband what was up, that was the first thing he did. Go figure.


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17 Comments to “Two Blogs in One: A Good Hack Gone Bad”

  1. November 4th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
    Scorpia said

    Welcome back, Liz. You sure had me worried there for awhile, with no apparent posts the whole day. Thanks for sending that email and relieving my mind.

    Of course, that’s what you get for being so diligent ;)

  2. November 4th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Scorpia,
    Thanks for worrying and checking in on me. It’s not such a bad think to think that folks care. :)

  3. November 4th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
    Joe said

    Hey Liz,

    Time warp, space warp, hack warp.

    Still a WARP…

    And Aaron says he’s not the Diva of WordPress. :-)

  4. November 4th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Joe,
    When I wrote this, I wondered what you would say. This wasn’t one of the ones I had imagined. Still it’s a good one! ;)

  5. November 4th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
    Joe said

    What did you expect?
    Something like…
    A twin universe, each to it’s own, but the same in many ways, still separate and disparate, the one or the other, one and the same, only one, yet still two, different times at the same time…
    Kinda thing?

  6. November 4th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
    ME Strauss said

    No, Wow! Now you’re outdoing yourself!!
    Way cool!

  7. November 4th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    5-Clicks by http://www.screen-capture.net/ … the best investment I’ve made in years - for screen captures! :D

    Glad to assist anytime.

  8. November 4th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Gee, HART, thank you. That’s such a nice thing you just said. :)

  9. November 5th, 2006 at 5:48 am
    Chris Cree said

    Us husbands can be handy to have around for those pesky technology issues. At least that’s what Gorgeous tells folks! ;)

  10. November 5th, 2006 at 6:51 am
    ME Strauss said

    Yeah, Chris.
    You’re right about that. Another point is also a good reason to have you around. :)

  11. November 5th, 2006 at 8:15 am
    Big Roy said

    I had problems beginning Friday night. Readers started emailing me saying they couldn’t comment and posts were missing. I checked the site and yep my last post was missing and I couldn’t comment either.

    I have been running the Adhesive plugin for the past week to keep a post on the front page. I thought that was the problem but it turned out to be something else, I think. It seems Wordpress has a problem built into some themes based on K2. Day light savings can screw-up the dates. What was happening with my blog is, posts and comments had a future date, so they didn’t show up.

    I went back and changed the posts and comments to a past date and they all showed up. But then I still couldn’t comment.

    I had disabled Adhesive for awhile (10hrs) but then put it back. All this is just an educated guess on my part. But it seems to be working now. I can comment again.

  12. November 5th, 2006 at 8:35 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Big Roy,
    So you know about Space Warps too! Oh, no! Maybe they’re contagious!!!

    This is amazing. That two very different causes should bring such similar weird results in the same two days. Is there full moon or something?

  13. November 5th, 2006 at 9:29 am
    TechZ said

    Wow, even when you’re not trying Liz, you come up with great things to write about ;)

    Glad to have you back!

  14. November 5th, 2006 at 9:35 am
    Successful Blog - Congratulations b5media on the New Website! said

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  15. November 5th, 2006 at 9:38 am
    ME Strauss said

    Thanks, TechZ,
    You can believe it feels great to be here!

  16. November 5th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
    Tracy Robinson said

    My wife always gets mad at me because instead of thinking of the problem she gives me I always just jump ahead and think of the solution. I think lots of us guys are like that where we don’t ever really look at a problem as a problem but instead look at it as a means to solve something.

  17. November 6th, 2006 at 4:41 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Tracy.
    Welcome. Thanks for the observation!
    Yeah, I agree with you and your wife. When I commuted from California to Boston for a job, I stayed two weeks every month with friends at one of the journey. The woman I worked with and I would come home and debrief on problem we’d already solved — discussing ways to avoid in the future — and her husband would constantly come through the conversation to say how to solve it. We’d had to tell him 2 or 3 times that it was already solved!!!

    BTW, some husbands have a way of interrupting such conversations every 7 minutes. I’m totally serious about this. I have (with friends) timed it in more that one household. Why 7 minutes? Commercials . . . . :) I don’t know that those husbands realize they do that or that we know that they do.

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