Sunday, May 15, 2011

Testing

For the next week I'm going to be doing a test: I'm going to be blogging at http://snarkypenguin.wordpress.com/ to see how that works. Next Saturday I'll make a decision as to whether to do that permanently, and post the decision here and there. Hopefully by that time Blogger will be back to normal...

UPDATE: The Wordpress experiment is over. It turns out that there is a critical piece of functionality that Wordpress.com will not allow me to implement while using their site for hosting. Since I will not self-host a site for a number of reasons I won't go into here, that makes it worthless for me. So all future postings will be here on http://snarkypenguin.blogspot.com unless there is another Blogger.com fail, at which point I'll *temporarily* turn on the Wordpress site again. I will also be working on a mechanism for automatically notifying you to go to snarkypenguin.wordpress.com in case of a blogger failure. Hint: It will be via a mechanism that Wordpress.com doesn't allow me to use, which Blogger.com *does* allow me to use. Hint#2: Javascript. Hosted and served from a domain I control, referenced in my blogger template, capable of redirecting even cached pages :).

-- Badtux the Blogging Penguin

Posted by BadTux at 5/15/2011 12:06:00 AM
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3 comments:

  1. Steve Bates15/5/11 7:00 AM

    See your thread upstream on "Not all here yet". I posted a solution to a problem that, as it turns out, is not yours after all.

    But I am facing the same kind of "one awful problem" phenomenon that makes me wonder whether I can use Wordpress going forward. I wrote a post about a Bill Maher segment and attempted to insert the Mediaite-approved HTML to display it. No go: Wordpress forcibly replaces the IFRAME tags with some other container, which promptly displays the video's location, not its content. They have a special video button on the editor that allows inserting the more common videos... YouTube, etc. ... but this is just one more obstacle, and I didn't succeed in solving it overnight. (Literally. Overnight.)

    BTW, when I decide, you'll find the link http://www.yellowdoggereldemocrat.org/ will take you to one or the other of the sites. Don't try using it as a source for feeds, etc.; it's just a forwarding page. Right now it points to the Wordpress blog.

    (CAPTCHA text: "reyedi" ... not so much "ready" as "red-eye".)

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  2. MandT15/5/11 10:05 AM

    Oh good. It is always such a hassle leaving comments at Word Press. Except, that Steve Bates has managed to overcome that problem somehow.

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  3. Anonymous15/5/11 10:22 AM

    Hopefully, Blogger won't have another problem soon...

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