by Bruce Keener on July 17, 2008
For the past few weeks, I have been trying to figure out what is causing some strange errors to show up in my Google Webmaster Tools Reports. It appears that the errors are false, that they go away, and that they then return a few days later.
I am deep into troubleshooting this, and am getting some help from Google (via their forums) to figure out what is going on. One possibility could even be that it is related to mobile viewing and that Google’s mobile bot may be impacted by that. To test that out, I have disabled mobile viewing. I know that most of you do not care, but that a few of you care very much. Hence, I wanted to apologize upfront to those of you who will be inconvenienced.
On a semi-related matter, I will be upgrading the blogging software to Wordpress 2.6 soon. I am reluctant to do so right now, because the traffic is pretty heavy … so I will try to wait until Saturday morning. It could turn out, though, that it is smart for me to go ahead and upgrade as a part of the troubleshooting process. Bottom line is: whenever I do this, the site will be unavailable for about 20 minutes or so. Update: upgrade completed.
Anyway, if you see “features” disappear (like mobile viewing, Subscribing to Comments, or other goodies), please understand that I am trying to track down a bug that is driving me crazy (short drive).
Have a really good weekend folks!
by Bruce Keener on July 16, 2008
Well, one more little tune and then I’ll hush up for a few days:
All The Lonely People (Eleanor Rigby)
I always loved the Beatles music. This tune was one of my favorites. A fairly complicated one to play, but, what’s life without a challenge or two, eh?
Enjoy it.
by Bruce Keener on July 16, 2008
Although this is not a site that receives a lot of traffic (724 page views yesterday), a few articles get a fair amount of attention, and I thought I’d share the current popular ones with you:
The popularity list will change some, especially after the newness of iPod Touch 2.0 wears off, but I thought I’d share this little bit of information with you. While I recognize that this topic does not have broad appeal, I thought a few of you might be interested.
Take care.
by Bruce Keener on July 16, 2008
Several of you have probably already upgraded to Wordpress 2.6, or are getting ready to do so. I’ve used it on my test server for a while (even when it was in the alpha development stage), and basically it is a good upgrade. But, it has at least one “feature” that may surprise you, and could disappoint you, if you are like me.
Here’s the scoop: Wordpress 2.6 introduces “revisioning” to posts, so that every revision you make to a post is saved, and so that you can select from these various revisions which one you want to publish. In theory, it sounds good. In practice, it can add a lot of (unnecessary) data to your Wordpress database.
For example, when I was using an alpha version of 2.6, I was using it on this live server, and was editing posts to my heart’s content. It is common for me to edit a post several times before I publish it. Unfortunately, I did not realize that this practice was growing my database, until I looked at my database one day. Here is a typical cross-section of what I saw: [click to continue...]
by Bruce Keener on July 15, 2008
I was thinking back on my musical roots tonight, of how I grew up playing country gospel music and listening to the great sounds of Paul Yandell playing guitar for the Louvin Brothers, Blackie Bennett playing for Martha Carson, and even Jerry Reed occasionally playing gospel guitar licks with some of the bigger gospel groups (such as, if I remember right, the Oak Ridge Boys). Gosh, those guys had great, clean sounds and the lyrics and their music was just absolutely beautiful.
So, I took my Gretsch Country Gentleman out of the case and played some gospel music with it: . Gospel Medley.
I hope you enjoy it. It consists of a verse from each of the following tunes: Matthew 24, Old Time Religion, and Will The Circle Be Unbroken.
