...okay, so it's more a self-serving announcement, but I don't know what else to do. I'm reposting this from my solo blog, daddyinastrangeland.com, because I figure most of the folks I need to see this will see it here. Long story short, if you have my old (non-alias) address bookmarked or, more important, you subscribe to the RSS feed for my eponymous solo blog, please update your bookmarks and go to the site and resubscribe to the feed, b/c the address has changed. Why? Here's the full story:
For the handful of you faithful readers out there who’ve been wondering where I’ve been, well, I’ve been here, and I haven’t.
I’ve been having some “technical difficulties” (more on that in a sec), which, in my usual get-frustrated-and-try-not-to-break-things manner, made me just give up for a bit. But I’m back. And hopefully you’re seeing this.
Okay, so two months ago Apple released iLife 08, a major upgrade to its package of multimedia “even somebody who can only point-click-drag (like you) can make something cool” software, including iWeb, the software this blog is built with. So I downloaded, upgraded, even wrote two posts in August after the upgrade, and none of you know it.
Here’s what happened. The new version of the program, in an effort to simplify things, changed the urls for iWeb sites and pages, creating new domains. Somebody frakked up in all of this, because all the comments on everybody’s iWeb blogs built with the old software disappeared. My daddyinastrangeland.com alias redirect was still going to the old address, which one, was still there, though it wasn’t supposed to be, and two, still had all my old comments. And then I realized that the address for the RSS feed had changed too. So at that point, knowing that if noone could tell I’d written anything new they wouldn’t find it, I froze.
Yes, for two months.
After confirming with a dude at the Apple store that yes, they screwed up and that no, there was nothing that could be done, I finally changed the alias redirect to go to the current, commentless site. Daddyinastrangeland.com now goes to http://web.mac.com/quioguesperber/daddyinastrangeland/blog/blog.html. [Yes, that’s the simplified version, and yes, that’s a lot of crap, why do you think I did the alias redirect in the first place?] The old address, http://web.mac.com/quioguesperber/iWeb/daddyinastrangeland/blog/blog.html, still exists (though it’s not supposed to, apparently), and you can go there to see any comments written on posts before mid-August.
But, and here’s the important part, please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. Daddyinastrangeland.com will now go to the current site, but if you bookmarked the long, convoluted .mac address a long time ago, please change it to the new one. And for the even smaller handful of folks who subscribe to my feed, go to the main page of the “new” site and click subscribe again, because the address has changed, and if you don’t, you’ll never see that I’ve written new crap.
Okay, I’m unfrozen now. I hope somebody’s reading this. ;)
[Questions? Feel free to contact me directly.]
2 comments:
yes, someone is still reading you. I just thought you were busy with the kiddo and la dra. I had a blog through ilife/iweb (iwhatever) and had it for about 10 months, regularly posting and adding photos of the kid for the g'parents. Then it started crashing, the photos wouldn't load, it would freeze and time out while uploading. I tried many time working with Mac support, various emails and phone calls and many hours wasted. In the end they asked me to upload my site to the public site so they could see what was wrong only it wouldn't even upload because somewhere in the previous directions they gave me for helping fix it it got deleted. I was so frustrated with them and the program that I gave it up altogether and went with an online web site server, I'm much happier now. I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your site and all the trouble you had to go through, I felt your pain reading your post. But happy to hear you are back in full force.
"Somebody frakked up..."
Judging by your choice of terminology, you must be a Galactica fan.
Glad to see you back. = )
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