Tag: webmastering

Posted a weird permalinks error on WP forums..

Just posted on wordpress support forums.

When I create a htaccess file using options/permalinks, a message says the htaccess file is not writable, so I have to cut and paste the code, save it as a file and upload. I do that by saving it as a.htaccess as a text file, upload, rename to .htaccess, then chmod to 666. It then worked ok.

I used it for a couple of days no problem. Then a few hours ago I was clicking around the options area (looking for the spam options actually). I clicked on the Permalink page, DID NOT DO ANYTHING, tried to go out of it then it returned a “INTERNAL SERVER ERROR 500”, etc.

Everything I wanted to know about podcasts (but didn’t care to find out until now)

My client m|ph’s editors went and made their first podcasts, so I went and fixed up the blog to get it ready, and finally did what I had been dreading for awhile to do – update from Wordpress 1.2 to 1.5 while using a highly customized template.

I would normally not worry about it, except that m|ph is a popular blog, and a screw up would be noticed. Also, the template is highly customized, and so I wanted to wait until we could choose a new template first before upgrading the core files to avoid having to deal with that. Week after week of zero response followed however, and I honestly worried about the day that they’d make a podcast, knowing that 1.2 doesn’t really do well with it, and 1.5 integrates it by design.

Analytics Shmanalytics? – A Review of Google Analytics

It’s slow. Molasses on a winter day slow, and while that’s ok sometimes, it’s surely not up to par for anything that comes out of Google’s labs. They need to fix that up plain and simple, which is probably why today, the ability to add sites to filter isn’t available:google analytics review cannot add new website

Use.Firefox.Or.Else.

I’m not completely sure of what to make of the Explorer Destroyer movement, apparently a (over?)zealous groups of firefox user’s attempt to get people to switch from IE, making (good?) use as well of Google’s offer of $100.00 for every referral to Firefox.

Basically you slap on some code onto your site’s index page, and a IE visitor will either see a message encouraging them to download Firefox running across the top of the page (Gentle Encouragement option), a splash page before seeing your site, encouraging them to download Firefox and a link to continue on to your site (Semi-serious option), or IE users will see a message stating that they need to download and install Firefox to view your site, no ifs or buts about it (Dead Serious option).

More On Don’t Be Evil

After having read a lot about Google for an article I did that came out last month, I pretty much know a lot of surface information about Google guys Sergei Brin and Larry Page, or at least enough to write that article.

I just read a new one here though, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1869450_1,00.html, and it helped answer some of the questions I was thinking of in relation to ads, and how it fit in on Brin and Page’s “Don’t Be Evil” slogan.

PC Exchange Now Up!

I’ve finally gotten around to putting up PC Exchange, a simple classifieds site for the moment, completely devoid of any frills until I determine what else I might think of putting.