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Two Blogs in One: A Good Hack Gone Bad

November 4, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: Aaron-Brazell, bc, HART, server-moves, SOB Business

Comments

  1. Scorpia says

    November 4, 2006 at 5:43 PM

    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 😉

    Reply
  2. ME Strauss says

    November 4, 2006 at 6:15 PM

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

    Reply
  3. Joe says

    November 4, 2006 at 6:20 PM

    Hey Liz,

    Time warp, space warp, hack warp.

    Still a WARP…

    And Aaron says he’s not the Diva of WordPress. 🙂

    Reply
  4. ME Strauss says

    November 4, 2006 at 6:44 PM

    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! 😉

    Reply
  5. Joe says

    November 4, 2006 at 7:13 PM

    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?

    Reply
  6. ME Strauss says

    November 4, 2006 at 9:14 PM

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

    Reply
  7. HART (1-800-HART) says

    November 4, 2006 at 10:32 PM

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

    Glad to assist anytime.

    Reply
  8. ME Strauss says

    November 4, 2006 at 10:45 PM

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

    Reply
  9. Chris Cree says

    November 5, 2006 at 5:48 AM

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

    Reply
  10. ME Strauss says

    November 5, 2006 at 6:51 AM

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

    Reply
  11. Big Roy says

    November 5, 2006 at 8:15 AM

    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.

    Reply
  12. ME Strauss says

    November 5, 2006 at 8:35 AM

    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?

    Reply
  13. TechZ says

    November 5, 2006 at 9:29 AM

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

    Glad to have you back!

    Reply
  14. ME Strauss says

    November 5, 2006 at 9:38 AM

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

    Reply
  15. Tracy Robinson says

    November 5, 2006 at 10:10 PM

    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.

    Reply
  16. ME Strauss says

    November 6, 2006 at 4:41 AM

    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.

    Reply

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