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Grrrrrrr!

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I’ve just squandered 45 minutes of my time on earth chatting with the WordPress happiness engineer, trying to get my Share button to work, which it suddenly stopped doing this past Sunday. For no reason.

I’ve got a real feel for this now. You get a problem, you can’t fix it, you go to the happiness engineer, and an hour or two later, they tell you there’s nothing they can do–you’ll just have to work it out yourself with plugins, settings, and code, etc.–and jars and jars of green and gooshy gopher guts.

In vain do I protest that I don’t speak computer lingo, I don’t know what they’re talking about. I do history, I do literature, I do politics, I do fantasy: I do not do settings and plugins. I mean, it’s their flamin’ technology! Why can’t they fix it when it goes wrong? I mean, come on, I’m just a passenger! I shouldn’t have to get out and repair the jet engine. What kind of service is that? What are we paying for?

You’d think they could make their own Share button work. “It’s a browser issue, nothin’ to do with us!” Yeah, that’s what they always say.

Fap.

But I Don’t Love This

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They took away my Reblog function, but I still try, honest. I tried again today. As far as my colleague at the Unashamed of Jesus blog knows, I successfully reblogged his post and he thanked me for it. But no sign of his post has appeared on my page. Sheesh, I don’t want people thinking that I’m only pretending to reblog them!

And now my Share button doesn’t work, either. It stopped working on Sunday. My tech support, Jill, can’t figure out what’s gone wrong. If it stumps her, it’s really wrong. I could go back to the WordPress Happiness Engineers, but they’ll just string me along for an hour and a half and the problem won’t get fixed. But I will get an earful of unintelligible computer-speak. This I don’t need.

Maybe they have a problem that they’re not admitting, and they’ll fix it someday, and the Share button will start working again. That would be nice.

But for the time being… oh, fap!

More WordPress Woes

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If I didn’t have supreme confidence in my own unimportance, I’d swear WordPress was out to get me.

Yesterday it was the ol’ “Make his connection to Facebook go away” trick; and try as I might, I couldn’t get it back. Now you see it, now you don’t. I called up Jill and she couldn’t get it back, either. “Have you posted anything they might want to censor?” she asked. Not to my knowledge. Besides, by then we had a video of babies and puppies, and who would censor that? (Is that one of those questions that you shouldn’t ask?)

Well, we tried this and we tried that. And suddenly the post that didn’t have a Facebook share button had one; but the post that had one a moment ago now didn’t. “It looks like some kind of glitch at their end,” Jill theorized. “It might be gone by tomorrow.”

Voila, it’s gone. Of course, I haven’t tried to post this yet, so who knows what will happen? I’m starting to feel like those hamsters on the wheel up there.

Here we go, let’s see what comes out…

They’re Driving Me Crazy

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Well, ten or 15 minutes’ work just took over an hour, thanks to WordPress changing everything on me. They just love to do that. And then they “explain” everything in a torrent of computer-speak. I do not speak that language.

Like I wasn’t having enough problems with this blog already.

Well, by and by I’ll try to post a cat video. I wonder now whether some of these little changes have played a part in crashing my viewer numbers. Several readers have told me they don’t get their notifications anymore.

Don’t be too surprised if they simply make me disappear.

The Mongolian Death Worm

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All I wanted to do was add another post–and WordPress torpedoed me. Suddenly the whole format has been changed. I don’t know what I’m looking at. I have no idea why they do this to their users., I can’t start a new paragraph, and now I can’t see what I’m writing!

I just found the paragraph.

When Roy Chapman Andrews was organizing his 1926 Gobi Desert expedition, to search for fossils, Mongolian authorities asked him to keep an eye out for a kind of “death worm” inhabiting the desert: two feet long, looks like a sausage, and just to touch it causes instant death. How he was supposed to collect a specimen was not explained.

Several expeditions since then have tried, but no one has yet found any trace of the death worm.

I think it has moved to WordPress and is feeding on the brains of defenseless users. Like me.

I have no idea whether I’ll be able to post this. Here goes nothin’.

 

It’s Geek to Me

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I keep trying to get my reblog function restored, but WordPress won’t play ball with me. Yesterday, though, they told me there is a way to get it back–if….!

It turns out all I gotta do is swovver the metopes while re-frangiulating the carcosa, taking care not to sanforize. This will activate the Zimiersky pelops; and then it only remains to stozzle the last binzuc, and I’m home free.

Do these people truly, genuinely, not understand that most of their customers are not big-time computer nerds and we don’t know what they’re flaming talking about? Can’t anybody speak plain English?

So I was forced to tell them not to do any of those things they suggested, because I have no idea what they’re talking about or what further disasters might be visited upon me if I let them go ahead.

I’ll let you know if they come up with anything else.

Pingbacks, Anyone?

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Since Jill repaired the problems on this site, I’ve had two good days, with viewership back almost to where it was when our internet went down in July, and all the rest of the days… not so good. Not good at all. It feels like being stuck in deep mud, unable to get out.

I did discover recently that somehow–I didn’t do it!–I now had “Allow pingbacks and trackbacks” on my posts. I thought I might as well let it stand and see what happens. I tried to find out what a pingback is–I mean, it sounds like some animal the cryptozoologists are looking for–but it didn’t take the Wikipedia article but seconds to lose me. I don’t have a computer vocabulary. I don’t know what they’re talking about.

And so I took away, just now, the pingbacks and trackbacks thingy. If that slows me down even worse, I’ll be at a complete stop. Like when the road ends in a mile-high brick wall. If I knew what a pingback was, I could make an informed decision. But I don’t, so it’s eeny-meeny-minie-moe.

Well, I could always allow them back. I don’t even know if I had any pingbacks while I was allowing them.

Is Your Text Still Squished Off to One Side?

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Please excuse the technical jargon in the headline. I can’t help it.

Jill thinks she has solved the problem of squished-off-to-one side displays on your whatsit phones, but she can’t be sure unless you check and tell us how it’s going. I don’t even have the vocabulary to frame the question right, so I hope those of you who’ve had an awkward time getting my blog to display on your phone screen will exercise a degree of clairvoyance. I mean, look at the illustration I chose–what does that have to do with anything?

So… does your screen look okay now, or is still all mashed off to one side, with just one or two words per line?

We are sure we can fix this problem.

 

 

About Those Squished-in Phone Displays

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A couple of you have found that when you try to read my home page, or comments, on your phone (don’t expect me to remember what kind of phone: all we have here is a wall phone), the display is all squished off to one side and very hard to read.

I’ve sent a screen shot of the problem to Jill and she says she can fix it sometime during the next few days. Please be patient: she’s fixed a lot of things here, so far.

And now, per a request by Phoebe [trumpet fanfare]…

THE SPOTTED QUOLL

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This cat-sized animal lives along the east coast of Australia in rainy, wooded habitats. Also known as the tiger cat or tiger quoll, it’s a predator that eats pretty much anything it can catch. Oddly enough, it has the second most powerful bite among all carnivorous mammals.

This marsupial is related to the Tasmanian Devil. Quolls are not as numerous as they used to be, and some conservation measures are in order. To me they somewhat resemble Thylacoleo, the extinct “marsupial lion,” which had some of the deadliest biting equipment known from the fossil record. Cryptozoologists think there might be a very few of those left, somewhere. But no one else does.

Is It Workin’ Now?

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It looks like Jill has successfully revamped the blog so that everything will work–although I did try to reblog “Unashamed of Jesus” as a test, and again it disappeared somewhere between his page and mine.

But everything else looks A-OK!

Of course, that’s from my end. How does it look to you? I hope this new “theme” (I can’t define that term, it’s computer talk) results in everybody getting their notifications and all comments coming through as they should.

Let me know if you see any improvement.