So what happens when WordPress plugins fail?
Jess gets over a thousand spam comments caught in the moderation queue, instead of in the actual spam catchers in place to stop them. Siiiiigh.
For some reason, Akismet just stopped working about three days ago. The first day, I thought it was just a hiccup. The second day, I started to get a little annoyed, but still had faith in it. Yesterday, I got angry, and I went into action. So now, I have Akismet (which has decided to work), Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behavior all running simultaneously. Let’s see a spam comment get through that.
In addition to that, my FAlbum plugin, that displayed all of my Flickr photos in a cute little gallery and let me randomize them and put them up at the top of the page, decided to crap out as well. I still haven’t figured out what’s going on with that one, but it’s about 8 hours away from being replaced. (I say 8 hours because I’m not going to sit here at work and do it, and I think I’m going to the gym after work.) I haven’t decided what I’ll use yet, but I’ve been looking at the FlickrRSS plugin that Sarah’s been using on onelotus.
In other news… I moved Surnaturelle over to a VPS, still on NSWH’s server of course. My brother, who had proprietorship, decided that he wanted to merge it with another hosting company, as it was starting to get a bit too big for NSWH to handle on their own with their resources and manpower. I don’t know much more than that, but he and I agreed it’d be better for me to get my stake on the server claimed now before prices change, if they do. So, I have a VPS. He’s going to help me out with some of the general server functionality, since I don’t even claim to know what I’m doing in Linux, and help me keep things running in general. It’s more expensive now, but… I think I can manage.
The move was smooth, thankfully. It did happen to reset my mail server settings, which I had changed over to GMail on a couple of domains, but it was no big deal getting them back to normal, and it gave me the initiative I needed to get the email piping set up for the Surnaturelle Support System, which wasn’t going to work through GMail.
Anyway, enough of the technobabble.
I feel like overhauling Lianhua… but then again, I don’t. I don’t know. Sigh.
I bought a fleece tube and hammock set from Fuzz Butt Chins for Frankie the other day, and it arrived today… I installed them both in his cage earlier tonight. He’s already taken to bringing his chews into the tube and sitting in it to eat them… but I think he misses being able to sit in the corner and watch me at night. His cage is about 3 feet from my pillow, and he liked to sit in the corner and watch me, or try to chew through the bars to get to me. Buuut I put the tube in that corner… and just a few minutes ago I heard him rattling around in there, looked over and he was trying to wedge himself under the tube to get into the corner. Poor baby… I don’t know where else to put it, though, without some major overhauling of his cage…
Aiya… I don’t really have much to say tonight. Not much has been going on… we’re just kind of chugging along, dealing with work, starting class at Purchase next week… *shrugs* Maybe I’ll think of something to say tomorrow… It is getting kind of late tonight to be thinking.
Sean is asleep next to me, and he just turned over and smiled in his sleep. I love that boy so much…
