Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Sometimes you get lucky.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

So this lovely blog software that I’ve set up seemed to be broken.  Images that you posted in the blog didn’t appear.

I had no idea how to fix it, so I plunked around, googled a bit, and sacrificed some pure netbooks to the computer gods.

Turns out (on this Debian installation of WordPress) that I had to make a soft link from the directory where the images were actually stored to a directory in the web server’s folder.  For some reason Debian’s WordPress installation didn’t do that automatically.

Isn’t it nice when a little brainstorm turns out to be correct?

As I like to say, it’s as if I know what I’m doing.

In celebration:  here’s a photo.Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta.

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The law of Murphy

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

If you get yourself a swanky virtual private server because the price is astoundingly affordable, and plan to do something with it at some indeterminate date… say, nine months later… do you know what seems to happen?

The VPS runs perfectly reliably for, say, nine months… and then, three days after you finally deploy the interesting something you were contemplating (say… a blog…)… the hardware on which your VPS runs will spectacularly fail!

On the plus side, I see nothing was lost (at least nothing I’ve determined so far, and since the blog seems intact, nothing I can’t replace).

On the plus plus side, I’ve now amended my backup script to back up the site daily instead of weekly, since I’m actually using it now and got a bit of a wake-up call there.

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