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By Chris, on May 15, 2010, at 9:40 am
Woo Hoo!
The WPG2 plugin has been restored so that the blog is back to it’s happy self. I haven’t had a lot of time to work on this, but it’s been nagging at me and making me crazy. I had posted on the WPG2 forum to no avail, and was going to contact my webhost and see if they had a fix. While I was driving yesterday, it occurred to me to try one last time to delete and replace the files themselves. I had done this before and it didn’t fix it, but this time it did. I don’t even care that I don’t know how I fixed it, I’m just glad it’s working.
The problem is that WPG2 has been orphaned and is no longer being developed. I assume that at some point, a few upgrades down the road, I am going to have this problem again if Wordpress or Gallery2 significantly change their code. Gallery3 is out there on the horizon, and while currently there doesn’t appear to be support for embedding in Wordpress, maybe that will be added later. Or maybe someone else will pick up WPG2 and continue on with it.
By Chris, on May 6, 2010, at 7:34 pm
The Critterweb is still going through some difficulties which apparently were due to the server the site was hosted on becoming unstable. There were no database backups so I’ve had to work to repair the old one, and just haven’t had a lot of time to work on it. Due to all this I’ve had to move the whole site which was a bit tricky with both Wordpress and Gallery2 databases to relocate. It’s mostly fixed but I am still working at getting the integration with the blog back up and running. In the meantime it can be accessed directly but keep in mind there are still a few issues I am working on. If you see a broken photo link, please let me know!
By Chris, on January 3, 2010, at 6:38 pm
The new year started with some unseasonably chilly temperatures (it’s 17 degrees now and never did get much warmer than that today) and there’s no end in sight to that. Heat pumps notoriously don’t do well below 20 degrees but so far we’re managing to stay warm. The gas log fireplace rocks – though the addition of a fluffy orange devil to the household necessitated an emergency fireplace screen purchase. We just hope the cold spell breaks soon.
Speaking of frozen things, our computer is still borked. So if we’ve missed replying to anyone’s emails or anything, we apologize. This post is coming from one of the two frankenlaptops as the desktop is in the midst of a second attempt at a Windows XP repair install, which appears to be hung at the same spot the first install failed at. The next (last ditch) step is a full Windows reload. I’ve already removed the video card and KVM switch, and ran memory, hard drive, and CPU tests. This is NOT how I had envisioned spending the last three day weekend we’ll have in a while.
The freezeup happens in a selective startup and even safe mode. It *didn’t* happen when booted to a Linux CD which is why I am trying the repair or reload Windows options, but my gut says this is a hardware issue, leaning towards “USB controller” but I’d love to be wrong. It just isn’t worth it to replace a motherboard on an older computer and a new one was not in our budget at this time.
We also engaged in our traditional holiday vet-fest – Dandelyon went in yesterday, for his upper respiratory infection that he came home from the shelter with, and Winter today, for the probable same infection. She’s got a 103.5 temperature and a voice like a woman who’s been smoking two packs a day for at least thirty years. The URI wasn’t totally unexpected; with Joy working at the shelter, me volunteering there, and the new kitten, someone was bound to come up with the crud. What was unexpected was the previously undiagnosed heart murmur that Winter apparently has that the vet discovered tonight.
Ah, never a dull moment in the critterweb household…
Happy New Year to all! If the posts are few and far between in the next little while, it’s our computer’s fault. We’re still out here, drinking hot tea to stay warm.
By Chris, on January 2, 2010, at 7:54 am
We have a bunch of pictures to post, and something I wanted to put up for New Year’s, but I can’t get our computer to stay unfrozen long enough to do any of that and have spent the past few days troubleshooting what’s wrong with it, instead. It’s an old-school freeze-up, like in the early days of Windows where the entire computer becomes unresponsive and you have to hit the power button – nothing in the event log, no error messages. I am sort of feeling a Windows reload coming on and I hate having to do that — it always seems to take forever to get things back the way they were before. Anyway, hopefully we’ll get things back up and functional soon.
By Chris, on November 19, 2009, at 10:32 am
As you can see, the site is in the process of getting a major facelift. We liked the old theme but it lacked a few features I wanted (drop down menus, three column capability) and it was just time for a change. The new theme you see here, which is called Atahualpa, is actually Joy’s pick. We had it narrowed down to this one and another one called Suffusion that I actually favored just a bit more, but I had a devil of a time getting the embedded Gallery2 page to display correctly with either theme, and this was the one I was able to fix, so Joy wins.
There are a few things I don’t care for but they are mostly style issues and it’s just a matter of brushing up on my CSS skills to tweak it how I want it. The category structure will probably also change; back when the blog first started WordPress hadn’t implemented tags (or perhaps I hadn’t figured them out?) and a lot of the things I have in categories really should just be tags. Please let me know if you find anything broken!
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