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Please Stand By…

01 Apr

No, this isn’t some April Fool’s joke.  Some Albanian retard hacked my site and took the whole thing down.  However, with the help of my web host’s support team, I’ve been working to bring it back up.  They were able to give me some pointers and point me in the right direction to get up and running again, so a big thanks to them.  It looks like I’ve recovered my content and now I just need to restore my theme.  This will do while I continue my work.  Hope you like bananas.

Update #1:  So I’ve got the bulk of my theme up.  I just need to rearrange and tweak a few things.  No more bananas!

 
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Posted by on April 1, 2012 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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WordPress upgrade for Ask the Fatty

18 Jun

Since the My Twisted Mind upgrade went so well, I’m going to try it here. I’m also going to turn on auto-update for WordPress AND Gallery on both sites and hope for the best. I’m feeling reckless, but I don’t care! I live on the edge, baby. THE EDGE! Here goes nothing!

(Cross posted to My Twisted Mind.)

 
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Posted by on June 18, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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My Twisted Mind Update

18 Jun

It’s become something of a tradition that I make a quick post before trying to update WordPress since each update seems to break WordPress badly enough that Dreamhost support has to fix it each time. Hopefully that won’t happen this time, but who knows. Just in case, here’s my heads up that I’m updating. I hope this goes out over the RSS feeds in time, and I’ll be cross posting this to askthefatty.com just in case. Luckily I can keep typing up my World Cup posts on my Droid, save them locally, and then publish them all rather quickly once the site comes back up. But that’s disaster planning. The update will go fine. Really!

Really! :D

:(

 
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Posted by on June 18, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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World Cup Hiatus

13 Jun

Yeah… so the World Cup? I’m gonna be watching that. A lot. Pretty much to the exclusion of all else. I wouldn’t expect any updates here until around July 12th or so. My regular blog will have daily updates with my impressions of each day’s games, but that’s pretty much going to be it for my online presence until the World Cup is over. See you in a month!

(Cross posted to both mytwistedmind.net and askthefatty.com)

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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Facebook integration!

08 Feb

Update: Either Facebook changed something or WordPress did or the plugin I was using did, but the Facebook integration no longer works and quite frankly I don’t care to fix it because Facebook is not my favorite thing. The commenting thing might work, but I’m not sure and don’t have time to test it. If it works for you, then great. If not, then that’s the way the cookie crumbles, I suppose.

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The rumors are untrue! I have not gone into a diabetic coma from too many Milky Way Caramel bars, nor did I spend any time in the hospital due to my ill advised attempt to combine the aforementioned candy bar with a 3 Musketeers. I’ll have you know that I already ate all my 3 Musketeers bars never had any of those to experiment with in the first place! Now that we’ve settled that, how about we move on to other things.

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Posted by on February 8, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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Recipe for a Website, Part 2

24 Jan

That’s it! I’m done! Askthefatty.com has been simmered, seared, fried, baked and grilled to perfection! The backend stuff is all done, my theme modifications are up and not hideous, and I’m working on my first set of reviews now. It’s been a long, tasty road, but we’ve finally arrived. Ask the Fatty is officially open for business! So, what went into making this fever dream a reality? So glad you asked!

First, I had to see if the domain was free, and if so, register it. Nice and easy, two minutes and you’re done. After registering it, I set up my existing webhosting account to host the askthefatty.com domain. Here’s where the tomfoolery began. Apparently there was some kind server side misconfiguration that prevented the domain from resolving properly. Neither myself or the tech support team could figure out how it happened, but they were able to correct it on their end. Success! The domain resolves! Now to set up WordPress!

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Posted by on January 24, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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Recipe for a Website, Part 1

24 Jan

Ingredient list:
Domain (up and running!)
Wordpress install (fully configured!)
Theme (almost done with modifications!)
Content (just as soon as the theme is ready!)

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Posted by on January 24, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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Eat it!

23 Jan

John: You been lyin’ to your daddy, boy, and you KNOW you shouldn’t lie to your daddy. Who’s your daddy? Come on, you know who your daddy is… Who’s your daddy?!? D’Argo, tell him who his daddy is!
D’Argo: I’m your daddy.

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Posted by on January 23, 2010 in Nuts (and Bolts)

 

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