Category Archives: blogging

Website stuff

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I’m playing with a new template over at Educating Erin. I like the navigation tabs at the top of the page. I’ll probably want to work on customizing the template a bit…possibly changing colors, and changing the header image/fonts. I do like the look of this, though. It’s nice and clean…professional looking.

I don’t know why I didn’t decide to just use wordpress for the entire site sooner…it’s much easier for little-ol-me to navigate than actually trying to create my own page. It looked so pathetic. 🙂

And that’s my exciting day. Whoo!

Oh, also got my inspection done, with some other minor things (wheel balance/rotation, power steering flush, rear brake adjustment). Of course, this meant I had to sit at the shop for much longer than I really wanted to. Note to self: always bring TWO books with you. That way, when you finish the book you were working on, you can avoid having to read two issues of OK!

Sigh.

More on the books I’ve read coming soon.

I don’t get it

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The ongoing commenting/posting saga over at Superfluous Juxtaposition has got me thinking about something. A summary…some random chick left some bitchy comments for Hilary, and also won’t stop talking about how boring Hil’s blog is on her own blog.

My question is…why??

Why waste your time reading, commenting on, and blogging about a blog you don’t like?

Here’s the thing about personal blogs…they’re, well, personal. I can blog about whatever I darn well please, and no one is under any sort of obligation to read it or comment on it if they don’t like it.

I don’t understand why someone would do this.

Minor issue

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If anyone can help me figure out why my background (the white part) is broken in the middle, I’d be most appreciative.

ETA: Hrm…I’m looking at it now in IE. It’s still broken, but it’s all the way at the bottom of the page, just before the footer.

UPDATE

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I attempted a database restore.

It wasn’t entirely successful, but it wasn’t entirely unsuccessful either. But I did learn something unfortunate…

It’s not a full backup. It was done before I imported everything from blogger.

Unfortunately, I deleted a bunch of posts from blogger. What does this mean? Well…it means that I’ve lost a good deal more than I had originally thought. Mostly early stuff. The stuff about X. The stuff about my early days of dating. All of the “wah wah wah, I’m so miserable” stuff.

And maybe, just maybe, that’s not such a bad thing.

Don’t get me wrong, I needed that. At the time. Blogging my pain, my trip back into the dating world, was incredibly cathartic for me.

And while it hurts a little bit to know that those words are gone…I know that I don’t need them anymore.

And so, no more looking back. I’m moving forward, full speed ahead. First step…figure out how to get back to eringoblog.net. Second step, rebuild my sidebar. Third step…actually, happening simultaneously with steps one and two, get back to the business of blogging, without letting it get in the way of other things. I’ve had a pretty productive couple of weeks, and I’m feeling good about that. Keep checking in with me here, and soon, I’ll be back at home where I belong.

I’m so tired…

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…of not blogging.

Really. I miss the blog.

The restore situation is more complicated than it should be. Apparently, the instructions for restoring your database from backup are outdated. This is what Thomas tried to talk me through, but the phpMyAdmin page has changed. If anyone can offer assistance on this, I would be most grateful.

I’m having a hard time with this…I could be posting here, but it just doesn’t feel like home. And I don’t want to go through the effort to make it feel like home…I just want things back the way they were. Even missing two months.

And another thing…does anyone know why my pages in the theme editor are suddenly not writable? That’s pretty annoying.

In spite of how I sound right now, I’m really not so miserable. 😉

I had the chance to catch up with Stephanie (as well as her hubby and little one) today, which was really great. It had been way too long! I got a few cute photos of Alex, which I will post soon. It was too bad this visit coincided with Bloggercon. Sorry I missed you all!

Thanks to everyone who has emailed or commented about the blog. (henceforth, I shall be referring to this time as the Great Blog Tragedy of 2006.) I really do appreciate knowing that people care.

Hoping to be up to full “YEAAAAAAAAAAAH!” strength soon.

🙂

Technical difficulties

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I did something monumentally stupid.

I deleted my blog.

It was purely accidental. I put in a request to my host, to see if I could get restored from backup. I haven’t heard anything, but I’m not overly optimistic.

I spent a long time on the phone with the very kind, very patient Thomas (who did the very thing to HIS blog) trying to find a recent backup. I have one from when I did the move to wordpress, which was the beginning of May. It looks as if, once I figure out how to restore from that backup, that’s what I’ll be going with. So I’ll have lost about two months of posts. Kind of sucky, but not the end of the world.

That’ll learn me to mess around with things without making sure I have backups, though….won’t it?

So basically, if you care, check back here for updates. I will eventually get whatever I can restored and back at eringoblog.net. Thanks.

To anyone new happening by

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I moved my blog to wordpress several months ago. Last week, I had an unfortunate accident that wiped out my wordpress blog.

Until I can get the situation resolved, I’ve restored my archives here (almost everything’s here…but the formatting’s all wonky) and disabled forwarding. Feel free to browse the archives for whatever you’re looking for.

Hope to catch you on the flip side soon. 🙂

Blogging

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I read Kelly’s post this morning, and it echoes a lot of things I’ve been feeling. This little blog disaster kind of helped solidify those feelings for me.

I’m not going to walk away from erin-go-blog completely…I enjoy it too much. What I am going to do is limit myself. Spend more time working on the “real work” of writing. Query markets for nonfiction. Work on short stories. Start one of those novels. Finish that screenplay. You know, those kinds of things.

I’m going to consider erin-go-blog on temporary hiatus until the backup issue is resolved. It shouldn’t be terribly long, and as I said, you can check here for updates. You can also check the places I go, where I intend to be posting regularly.

Thanks.

Grrr…

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Everything is getting on my nerves a little today.

I was getting ready to go out and about today, and needed to fix myself some food. There was a little mishap (slight case of the dropsies) and I got barbecue sauce all over my shirt. Grr.

I found a cute dress in the Chadwick’s catalog that would be perfect for Shannon’s wedding. I ordered cute dress, got it, tried it on, and realized I needed a smaller size. I shipped the dress back, went to order the smaller size, and of COURSE it is backordered.

So I stopped off at the outlet mall today to try and find something…nothin’.

Also, I purchased myself a new domain name…I’m thinking of (at SOME point) moving my blogs over to my own server. No rush…I figured I’d be able to play around and take my time…but I did something wrong in the setup and I can’t quite figure out how to fix it. Frustration abounds.

OH…and I don’t know how I forgot to mention this before, but apparently when you download the new version of Firefox, all of your bookmarks vanish into internet limbo. Blah.

Extra! Extra!

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Hey everyone…look for me (and a story about Buffalo bloggers) in the Buffalo News today! 🙂

(BTW…I opted to not link directly to the article, but lots of other people did. Check out Alan, Jen, Jennimi, and David. And thanks, again, to Jennimi for getting me mentioned!

Oh, and anyone happening by because of the article…welcome!