That's just fantastic. Radio Shack is firing via email. Guess it's slightly better than being fired by texting.
Month: August 2006 Page 1 of 2
Because, you know – listening to music/downloading from the intarwebs Steals! From! the Musicians!
<– is currently listening to Bob Dylan's new album.
<– is planning on buying the sucker next time she's at a music store.
This is gooooood shit!!!
Well, LJXP isn't working for me right now. It's either (a) something with my GoDaddy host that I'm not allowed to do; (b) something I've got messed up with my WordPress install; (c) computers hate me; or (d) some combination of the above.
That's ok though – I've got a satisfactory kludge to meet my needs.
I can write posts w/ Journler, and I can format them pretty much how I want to – it's totally WYSIWYG. Journler can post both to my WordPress blog and to my LJ. It does this by bringing up another window, where it shows my post w/ HTML. I choose the blog I wish to use – at this point I can drop in the LJ code snippet for the header you see above (if you're reading this on LJ).
The sad part is I wrote an AppleScript that dropped it right into the Journler post – and it worked! But it was HTML code to make the cute border, and links and everything – so when I went to post, the < and > got oh so helpfully translated to & l t ; and & g t ;. Sigh. See? Here's the snippet:
<p style='border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;'><b>Originally published at <a href='https://robandjen.com/jen/'>Jen's Corner</a>. You can comment here or <a href='https://robandjen.com/jen/XXX/'>there</a>.</b></p>
It would've worked perfectly – all I'd have to do is change the XXX to the wordpress posts' url.
So! My fix is, instead, to use SOHO notes, which I love. I've got the code snippet in a Note, and the note is set to a spot on my right-click mouse menu. Works fantastically – I didn't need to bother w/ AppleScript. Actually, SOHO Notes duplicates Journler in a lot of ways – maybe I should just go with that. Hmm. Gotta see if it will post to both blogs. Plus, Journler, while powerful, pretty, and cool just bugs me because the name is misspelled. :)
So again! I'm extremely pleased with this solution – that I solidified while writing this post. Awesome!
</end of completely boring geekness – as well as (hopefully!) the end of test posts!>
One more time. Even with the error, it seemed to work, at least a couple of times. Let's see what happens this time. After this, I give up for a while. Probably.
Ok… it's not crossposting. But it did twice…. arrrgghhhh. I dunno.
Well, I don't think I'm going to be getting the LJXP plugin working. I'm getting the following error:
Something went wrong – -32300 : transport error – HTTP status code was not 200
There doesn't seem to be a conclusive answer on LJXP's site – I'm guessing it's something my install and/or host is doing that's blocking it. It's not a socket error though, like the others were getting. Hm. Dunno.
Oh well. Journler will crosspost, more or less. So I guess it's ok. I kinda liked that little “originally posted blah blah blah” box though.
Now to do something about that horrid text color. Ugh – css files.
Here we go again, with another test post. This one, using Journler. Heh – that site uses the WordPress Kubrik theme! Still need to finish tweaking my theme, and/or finding another. What a pain.
Gallery’s doing pretty well I think. I’ll have to start uploading real albums soon.
Whee!
Wonder if the LJ import thing works. o_O
Can’t get pretty permalinks to work. Can’t figure out why – they’re working on gallery. Trouble is, in order to get “now reading” to work, I had to have actual access to the mysql database, so I had to uninstall from godaddy’s side, create a mysql database (no problem, I’ve got 25 available) and install it myself. Mostly worked, except for some reason the rewrite doohickey isn’t. But I did get “now reading” to work. It looks like hell though. Too bad, I was starting to like this theme. Yes, I know the text color sucks ass – I haven’t gotten around to tweaking that yet. Suffice it to say that the previous image color was barfworthy, though the style itself was nice.
One victory I had was the random photo from gallery. I’m extremely happy about that snippet.
And a defeat is the post to wordpress AND livejournal thingy. I’m hoping that the one I found isn’t the one that Orb & Piper use – because it failed miserably. Too tired to try to figure out why right now, maybe I’ll get Rob to help me with that one too, tomorrow.
Uh oh. I better find out if Journler can post still. It did before.
It's so wrong that not only do I “get” this comic, but it made me laugh out loud. :)
Enjoy:
Ok, you've got geek comics, gaming comics – but this is, hands down, the geekiest comic out there. I love it. http://xkcd.com/
Wow. That's got to be a time record for breaking Gallery.
o_O
Wonder what I did….
EDIT 8:46pm: Annnnnnnd now it works. See, this is why I hate computers. You do the exact same thing two or three times, and get two or three different results!!! Isn't that what insanity is?!?
Gah.
Ok. Let's see if I can break it some more.