Again I have upgraded my MT and AGAIN I am having problems with the Chmod and file names. I wish I could manage to update without having to spend two days figuring out the bugs. Maybe I will just start with a fresh install and remove all my old posts. I could always add back any that I think might be interesting. Oh Well I will keep plugging until I figure it out.
Sure does take the fun out of blogging for me though.
For those of you that have come over to see what the heck I have been doing...
You probably are seeing all the "test" posts. I am upgrading to MT4 from MT 2.6. It has been a struggle since I had to to a "middle upgrade" to MT3.3 or something like that. That's what I get for not upgrading as the versions come out.
It has been a struggle though. For some reason the CHMOD of some of my files kept changing. But it looks like NOW I have got it working. But for how long. Until another rebuild???? Only time will tell.
I hope to be posting again about some REAL stuff soon.
Thanks for stopping by.
Actually I am trying to updat my MT. I have a working 2.6 version and have to upgrade to version4. But first I have to get it updated to version 3.3.
So far it isn't working as well as I had hoped.
But hopefully I will be able to work on it again on Sunday. We are heading out to Prescott to watch my nieces play soccor on Saturday.
Holy Cow! Don't have a cow! I am actually dusting off the ole blog and posting something. Looks like the last time I posted was about 6 months ago. Seems that is the average length between the last few posts.
I don't suppose there are any readers left out there but for those of you who might still be around, I'll give you the run down.
The granddaughters are growing like weeds. And are OH SO MUCH FUN! I have finally found the reason to have kids in the first place. (so they can give you grandkids) If you haven't already you should try it.
I just had to move from my old place of business to a new place of business. HATE IT! Not only the moving but the new place is SOOOO disorganized and I am SOOOO the organized person. But the 3 of us from the old shop all moved together so we plan to make THIS one our own. I think that translates to "We will be taking over now". There is one stylist who is a non-stop talker. He is loaded with misinformation about everything and has shown signs of being a racist/bigot and just a down right idiot. The other "girl" is a chatter box also, but not quite as annoying. The manager has already received the title of "We'll Get You That Tomorrow - But tomorrow never comes" person. All my favorite type of people.
Hubby is great. Cat is great. Me....I have shingles! WHAATTT! JUST WHAT I NEED FOR THE HOLIDAYS. So far, it hasn't been too bad. They are painful but not as bad as my MOM has them. It has been two weeks and I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel. I am sure going to miss those Vicadin induced sleeps at night though.
I have to head off to my GREAT job now.
See you in 6 months.
Damn, does this place need a face lift. I will get right on it. (yeah right!)
FINALLY! No more snow. Winter is over on THIS Blog. How about a game of Scrabble.
If you don't see the "New Skin" go to Change skin and click on Scrabble or Reset to Default.
Still have alittle work to do but at least it doesn't say Happy Holidays anymore. It's February for heavens sake.
I found out from Niki that my "Winter Skin" was totally dorked up when viewed in Firefox. (all Mozilla based browsers it turned out)
Well with alittle work it seems to be working now. If anyone sees anything "goofy" PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
I know there are lurkers out there who view with Firefox, Safari, AOL and a few "Unknown" browsers. So all you peoples who come here and DON'T comment, now is the time.
What browser do you use most often? Come on! Let me hear from you! Don't make me tell Santa you aren't playing with me.
I have noticed a huge increase in my Blog traffic.
I first noticed it when I saw on my hit counter, that I was getting close to having my 10,000 hit. I thought I would do a BIG post about the "10,000 customer" something really exciting. (yeah right!) I figured that I had a few days to think of something clever to write.
But it happened overnight.
So I checked my counter stats, (which I really don't do very often) and notice a BIG increase in new traffic.
NO idea WHERE it is coming from. My Referrer list says something about ClickTracking. Anyone know what that is?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
So if you are surfing into my blog from somewhere, if you could just do a quick comment to let me know WHY I am getting all this attention. I would really appreciate it.
Thank you - you can go back to what you were doing now.
What the heck is up?
I haven't had spam comments on my blog in months and then today I get 15 comments telling me about all the "goodies" there are out there for me to find, use, look at or eat.
Hope this isn't a new trend!
I just won a $10 gift certificate for iTunes from Blingo!
Good thing I got an iPod for my birthday.
What songs should I download? I am up for suggestions.
I am so going to get busy and retire Curious George. First I have to come up with an idea on what to do.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Come on you know you want to help. Don't be shy!
I'll give you something! I have no idea what, but if I use your idea, I will send you SOMETHING!
Give a girl some help here.
Just uploaded the "New Valentine's Day" skin. I still have a little tweeking to do I think but that is about it.
Let me know if it does strange things in your different browsers, as I only REALLY check it in IE.
Carry on!
I thought I dorked up my comments. But they seem to be okay now.
I have been getting alot of spam so I was trying to change the name of my mt-comment.cgi file. I followed the directions but was getting an internal error. Ouch! The directions didn't remind me to change the chmod (permisisons) of the file once I uploaded it. That was the problem.
Carry on.
If you have comments problems email me.
UPDATE!
Thanks to Tom over at St's Family my comments on each entry will close after a month. It pays to have friends in the know. :) Thanks Tom!
All you MT users.
I want to close the comments in all my "Old" entries. I know there is a way with a plug in but am not sure where to get it or how to do it.
Anyone out there using MTCloseComments?
I NEED HELP! But I don't have time to muddle thru all the mumbo jumbo. I have to head to work.
I'll love you forever!
I decided that I would like to "try" Expression Engine.
On their website, there is a trial version you can use for 14 days. FOR FREE! Cool! I like FREE! So I proceeded to download it and following the directions VERY carefully, uploaded it to my server, check this, diddled with that. Clicked install.......
Today, I only had to work, vote, eat dinner with Hubby, clean up after Kermit, who has decided that it is "oh so cool" to get into the recycleble garbage and see what is in there. So with all the left over time I did some tweeking on my Thanksgiving skin. If you don't see it, then click on "Change the Skin" and click on "Seasonal". Whaaaalaaaa!
I think I am done. Okay, I AM. I have other things to do. Like watch quality T.V. tonight. NOT! The Election "stuff" is on. Since we probably won't know who the new President is until sometime next year anyway, I am going to watch a movie or something.
Just a quick Thanksgiving skin for your viewing pleasure. I still have some work to do on it but ran out of time. So hopefully I will be able to finish it up this week.
October is on its way out. And in 6 days the world will be filled with little ghost and goblins, and probably some George W's and maybe even some Kerry's. We will have the usual clowns and gypsies and grim reapers. Candy will be thrown into bags and checked by parents for bad things. (do they still do that?)
I love this time of year. Here in Arizona it is the sign of cooler weather to come. You can always count on Halloween night to be cool and crisp.
But with the coming of Halloween it means one other thing...
Is anyone else finding that the MT Blacklist Master list has not been updated since October 9th? I am really good about keeping my MT Blacklist updated and forwarding the spam email that I do get, back to MT Blacklist. But I am panicing. Are we going to be on our own here?
NOOOOOO!
For those of you who are getting here from Blog Explosion.....
Spend your 30 seconds pinning your place on my guest map
I would like to see where everyone is from and come visit your site when I get a chance.
Those of you who come here often, be sure to get your pin on the map too.
Thank you very much for the idea St's Family!
I spent the morning just bloggin around. Surfin thru my BlogRolling list and then linking from those sites. I was kind of surprised that some of the sites I ended up at had "little ole ME" on their blogroll.
So here's the deal. If you have me on your blogroll and you DON'T see your name on MY Blogroll list. LET ME KNOW! drop me a comment. If you like me, then it is only fair that I link you.
Just signed up at Blog Explosion It's a way to increase your blog traffic. Kind of a fun way to check out new blogs. Some good ... some not so good. Go have a look
I decided that there were alot of Halloween skins going around, so I didn't want to be left out. So here you go. If you don't see any Trick-R-Treaters on this page then look to the left and change the skin to Halloween.
There ya go. More cute than scary but I like it.
Deb over at Ponderings of a Princess gets brownie points for being the first to visit the new Halloween Skin. She commented on the last post as I was getting it set up. She's quick!
Anyone else having problems with Blogrolling? It is not showing my blog list as being updated . . . It is not adding blogs that I have linked to . . . it is not changing my preferences like I want . . . WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?
Am I the only dork they are picking on?
I hate when shit breaks.
Since the first of Sept. I have had 235 spam comments. Actually, I should say that I have had 4 spam comments, but MTBlacklist has caught 231. So I didn't have to do anything with those 231.
Why do these "PEOPLE" and I use the term loosely, think that I am interested in enlarging my penis, buying a pill to keep Hubby's penis erect for hours, playing texas holdum, viewing "Lolita" at her online porn site, getting a free credit report, or playing at an online casino?
Could this possibly be profittable for them? Are there really people that say, "Hell yes, send me some of them penis pills over that there internet." or "You betcha I want one of those vacuum things to suck my dick to a new "ENLARGED" size. WHAT"S UP WITH THAT?
Maybe sometime in the future we will have a "National Do Not Spam" registry like the "National Do Not Call". Seriously, if you haven't signed up for the Do Not Call list, and are hammered by telemarketers at dinnertime, sign up now. It's awesome! And it really works. I never get phone calls. From ANYONE. EVER! My phone never rings. EVER!
I feel so alone. I wonder if I can take my number off the list.
When I started blogging and decided on a "Name" I was unpleasantly surprised to find that whatsupwiththat.COM and whatsupwiththat.NET were both taken. So I settled for whatsupwiththat.INFO.
Back in January, I checked godaddy.com to find out who owed .com and .net because neither were being used for anything. I found that .NET was coming up for renewal in July. I decided to do a backorder thru godaddy.com and have them keep tabs to see if it was renewed. They have been sending me emails each week with updates on what was happening. First I got an email notice saying that the renewal date had changed to 2005. DAMN! those losers, renewed!
Well, I never changed my backorder so I have continued to get a weekly email telling me there was no change. Then last week I get my weekly email and it says "Domain status has changed. Pending delete" What the hell does that mean? So I ignored it. Next weekely email says, "We will be attempting to secure whatsupwiththat.net for you" (that is part of the backorder service) What?! Maybe they decided not to renew.
Skip to today's email . . .
Okay, so there is no blanket and no B-I-N-G-O, but there is definately a beach.
In honor of the San Diego trip I created a "Beach" skin. If you aren't seeing a beach with shells, click and change the skin to "Beach".
There ya go!
Anyone out there running MT that wants to share the code for the drop down archive list? I have been dorking with it all morning and can't seem to get it to work, right.
I can get it to list the archive months but then they are not linked to anything. I want to use the "MTTags" of course so I don't have to update the info each month. I hope once I have the CORRECT code I can figure it out for my category archives too.
ANYONE?
UPDATE! Thanks anyway. I figured out my mistake. I had two codes named the same. DOH! I forgot that since I had the "Change the Skin" drop down that I had to change the name of the "Archive" drop down. That's what you get for trying to "get it done in a hurry" before you head to work. :)
to me.
It was one year ago today that I started Blogging.
The year has gone fast and I have had fun. I have "met" alot of nice and interesting people along the way.
I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have.
Love you guys!
No, I don't want to spend my hard earned money online gambling.
No, I don't need viagra! Hubby doesn't either, believe me!
No, even if I had a penis I wouldn't want to enlarge it.
So I just installed MT-Blacklist to my blog.
Hopefully, it will do for blogdom what the National DO NOT CALL list did for the dinner hour.
I was amazed how easy it was. Just 1..2..3!
Bye Bye Spammers!
Since I am a lemming and have a new Gmail account, I am going to use it for blogging. My new email for anything BLOG is:
whatsupwiththat AT gmail DOT com
You know what to do with it.
If you don't then you should just step away from the computer
I can't seem to get the pretty colored scroll bar thingy to work, again..
I have copied code that I know works, put it into a regular html file and opened it and have a awesome colored scroll bar. I then copy the "exact same code" and put it into my blog file upload it and ... no pretty colored scroll bar.
DAMN! I don't get it.
Does it have to do something with the .php? No, cause I have tried putting a .php extension and it works. Am I trying to put it in the wrong place in the head of my index.php? Maybe, but I have tried moving it around to different spots. NOTHING! Maybe something to do with the skinning I had done recently? I have no clue. Again, I am frustrated.
Any ideas?
UPDATE!
You are AWESOME! Thanks sphinx. I NEVER would have thought of that one. :)
Now I have pretty colored scrollbars. I am now happy.
I know for alot of you Peoples, it is still Spring weather or even Winter for some of you. But here in AZ the temp is a balmy 92°. So since HERE it is the beginning of Summer I have put up a Summertime skin for your enjoyment.
I love this skin thing. Even tho, I am not getting much else done around here.
Thank you Joelle, for getting me set up.
ps let me know if you see anything broken. That is all.
I should of just stayed home from work today. I had one person cancel early and then one person, who was getting a color, just didn't even show. (she's a friend also) I tried calling her and can't get anyone at home. Makes me wonder if everything is okay.
*note to self, SELF... call again later this evening to make sure everything is okay*
Once I got home things became abit more productive.
I now have my Photoblog up and running in its new spot on my server.
Next on the list is to get a new design I am working on up and skinned on my main blog. Since I am so proficient *NOT* at php this should be a snap. Probably take me a couple of weeks. :-\
I think I have it. At least so far.
I moved my mt install to a subdomain of my main account. (Thanks Joelle for that info) I had to re-code the wonderful job that Joelle did to reflect the new path.
So now if you see anything funny let me know.
I am now going to delete the old file at the old path. This thing may blow up now. Hold on to your seats.
I am soo bummed.
I have been wanting to get my blog skinned for quite awhile.
I love to mess around with the design of my blog but couldn't figure out how to get it to work for skinning. Even after reading some tutorials on it. So I decided to pay the $ to have it done correctly.
I contacted Joelle at BlogMoxie about a month ago to have her recode my current blog design and make the site skinnable. At the time she was very busy on a big commercial client, so I knew it was going to take awhile. The anticipation mounted.
Well I got an email earlier this week that she was going to get to it this week.
She got back to me yesterday.
