I have about 37 blog posts to write, but my computer died. I’m using my laptop, but I don’t have access to a bunch of stuff I need at the moment, which is giving me an AWESOME excuse for blowing things off.
Maya’s Mom doesn’t like me. Booo.
August 6, 2008 1 Comment
Anybody on Maya’s Mom? I meant to join up forever ago, but I’m lame, and didn’t sign up until around the 4th of July or so, this year. I like it! I’ve been enjoying poking around on the site. Unfortunately, I forgot my login and need to get my password reset. I’ve tried to do this on the site a bunch of times, and it just…doesn’t work? It never emails me a new password (yes, yes, I’ve checked my spam folder) and I can’t get anyone to respond when I submit a help request on the site.
I’m about ready to just create a whole new account, except – I already like the one I have! My RSS feeds come in perfectly, I’ve made a few friends, I’ve put my picture on there…I don’t want to go through all that again.
Anybody else have “problems” like mine?
I feel so unloved.
July 28, 2008 11 Comments
Did you know that this blog used to have a Google Pagerank of 5? Yes. A five, people! Then, after the famous Google “Rank Spank” it dropped to a 4. I was very happy with my four. Some of the biggest, most badass blogs out there are a 4. It’s good to be a 4!
And then, I decided to separate my blog from my family URL, where it lived in a little subdirectory. I wanted an easy URL to remember. Brand recognition and all that. And I did everything the internets told me to do – I had a permanent redirect in place, and I crossed my fingers, and hoped for the best. Well, the best did not happen. My pagerank did NOT transfer over, even though my blog is exactly the same as it was before – same fabulous, witty content, same awesome, good looking blog author. 
Google just updated pagerank, and my blog is now at a ZERO.
Le sigh.
Oddly, my review blog only dropped from a 3 to a 2, even though its URL changed as well. I can only assume Google did its update last week while I was in the middle of fixing a corrupted database and a wonky redirect. That’s some fucked up timing right there, I think.
Oh well. What are ya gonna do?
I’m doing a little dance right now.
July 23, 2008 3 Comments
That special dance where you cross all your fingers and jump up and down and go, “Oh, please! Oh, please! Please work! Please work!” If my camera battery weren’t dead, I might have made this a video post instead. Bummer for you, I guess.
I think, I hope, I pray, I’m pretty sure my database/domain/redirect issues are now solved. I can’t even put into words all the bullshit I had to go through over the past few days, dicking around with this trying to make it work right! This is a brand, spankin’ new database right here, so hopefully (says tiny prayer) we won’t have any more issues with corruption.
Now! I can get back to doing all the stuff I was SUPPOSED to be doing. Like, driving Kayley over to my mom’s house so they can spend the day together getting a makeover at Ulta for Kayley’s birthday. This was my idea. I’m hoping that Kayley will be more open to taking advice on applying eyeliner from some cute 20-year-old with sideswept bangs, rather than her lame, old mother.
Databases make me cry.
July 21, 2008 Leave a Comment
I’m still having problems with my domain. I can’t get paulnlaura.com/mommy to show up anymore at all – it keeps mysteriously redirecting to lalagirl.org, which is sort of what it’s supposed to do, except it’s tacking the “/mommy” part on the end, and nothing shows up there. And the weirdest thing is that there IS no redirect in place – nothing anywhere. No permanent redirect file. Nothing in the htaccess. It’s something wonky in my database that keeps pointing it there. I’m trying to just wipe out this blog entirely and start anew, but I can’t seem to get my wordpress export file small enough that I can import it somewhere else. I can export the whole damned database, but when I do that, whatever error is there comes right along with it. It’s making me very sad.
I hate technical shit!
July 8, 2008 4 Comments
Did you know I have a GINORMOUS blog? Yes. It’s true. Apparently, my blog needs to go on a diet or something, because it’s just too big for me to export the entries and comments and import them somewhere else, like for instance…on a new WordPress installation where nothing is wonky. And my database is far too large for this, too. I tried doing an export/import in bits and pieces, a few tables at a time, through MySQL. It seemed like it was working, and my WP dashboard looked perfect, but my blog itself was just, like, gone. It was just a blank white page.
Any database experts out there want to help me? Or, maybe I don’t really need to fuck with it at all? I’m not sure what to do at this point. The existing WP installation is a little off – I can’t upgrade it via Fantastico, only via a manual upgrade, which quite honestly, is a pain to do. It’s not THAT hard in the grand scheme of things, but dude. I’m busy. I want to just go, CLICK, and voila. Upgraded. I can do this with all my other WP blogs, but not this one. Like I said: wonky. It says in the Fantastico panel, “Only Manual Upgrade Available.” And as often as WP seems to release new shit, I’d like to just make with the clicky and be done with it when it’s time to upgrade. Still, though, I’ve spent the better part of a day dicking around with this, and at this point it’s beyond my (laughable) expertise. Earlier today, I was even trying to get my head around the idea of starting fresh. But, I can’t just let go of my archives. Can’t do it! Why, just today, I re-read some stuff I wrote about a year ago that cheered me right up. I’ve been a little overwhelmed/down/freaked out about some things lately, and reading how I dealt with it awhile back really gave me perspective. I don’t care if anyone else is reading my old shit; I am!
So. What to do?
Housecleaning at the Home Improvement Blog
June 23, 2008 3 Comments
I wrote a happy little post today about how I’m getting ready to paint a mural of Yo Gabba Gabba characters on the kids’ playroom walls. I mentioned penciling in the characters and finding inspiration from other cool mommy-made murals on Flickr, and when I went to publish the post, it just…wouldn’t! I don’t know what the problem is with Blogger, but that’s happened the past few times I’ve tried to publish anything to that blog. It just hangs. And sometimes I can go in later and publish the post from draft, but today, I couldn’t even save the damned post! Ugh! I HATE wonky shit that doesn’t work!
So, I decided to heck with Blogger. I installed WordPress on the enginerdandwife.com domain, imported my Blogger posts and comments, and…voila. Brand spanking new blog that actually works. Featuring ugly standard WP template. I’ll fix that soon. In the mean time, feel free to subscribe to Enginerd and Wife by clicking right here. The old feed went through Blogger, so that one won’t work anymore. And check back in over the next few days – I’m going to document the process of creating the mural!
