When I woke up on Sunday Morning at 3:30, I discovered that there was a new version of Typo out. Anxious to find fixes for the bugs I’d enoutered in version 4, I started reading through the release notes where I discoved that the copy of rails on my server wasn’t compatible with the latest Typo. Worse yet, neither was compatible with the version of Ruby installed.
So, thinking I knew what I was doing, I did the download-configure-make-make install dance for Ruby, readline, gems, rails and typo. With all of that going smoothly, I went for the final step: typo install [directoryname], at which point everything went to hell. It backed up my database, but then modified the original and crapped out. Trying to back out the changes didn’t work. Nor did anything else I tried. The error messages? How about: “unable to find method read!” Yeah, that’s working.
To be honest, I probably screwed it up. In fact, I’m sure of it. Which is why I’m switching to WordPress. Dreamhost’s one-click-install made installation a breeze, and hopefully I’ll figure out how to get my old data transitioned over soon.
Popularity: 3% [?]
How come I got bumped from the blogroll? I was creeping up the list and had reached second place after starting at the bottom. I was thinking I was on a roll and would soon top Fresh Caffeine but now I’m Nowheresville.
Oh, and I want to thank you for not upgrading my blog software.
My home computer won’t boot. I was having some problems burning CDs so I uninstalled the burning software and ran Norton WinDoctor to clean up the registry. Bad move, now all I get is an eternal “Windows is loading” message. Been that way for a couple of weeks. Haven’t had time to even look at it. Something to that old adage not to fix what ain’t broke, eh?
Thouroughly? Thou roughly treated?
You didn’t get bumped – I’m still trying to get things back to some kind of normal. What’s upsetting about the whole thing is that I have pretty great page rank and some good google rankings for some of the pages that have died. Which means that I’m missing out on my paltry adsense money for the time being.
I’ve upgraded your blog software several times without mentioning it to you. But never in the wee hours.
Sorry about your software – What you need is a MacPro. =-)
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Thouroughly vs. Thoroughly. Never were a good speller.
Hmmm. Someone’s been editing your spelling…
boo for typo!
Yay beer! Oh wait. Yay WordPress!
If I’m not a good speller, I wonder what this says about the rest of humanity. =-)
Wordpress rules your face!
Sucks about the data “loss”. That’s similar to what happened to me. :(
Ah! At the top of the blogroll. Finally. I have arrived. My life is fulfilled. :)
Well, I’ve got almost all of my entries back, but no comments. As I’m having to manually enter everything back in, I can’t see myself typing in 1000 comments, so that’ll probably have to wait.
I think WordPress re-orders the blogroll as the pages on it are updated… So if you want to stay there, keep posting.
Just wondering if you’re “thouroughly pissed” at turning 32? Happy birthday!!!
Why does it look like your sidebar is hosed?
I dunno – I’ve been messing with some stuff – send me a screenshot or something…
It looks like it’s back now.
And sending a screenshot would require motivation, and I am fresh out of that for the day. :p
That’s my Jerry!