For those of you who comment on my blog, be aware that I’ve recently lowered the allowable number of hyperlinks in comments before they require moderation.
To date, none of the not-spam comments would have been moderated, but if your comment doesn’t show immediately, strip out a url or two and repost. I can’t guarantee that I won’t delete it with the hundreds of spam comments I’ve been receiving.
Hopefully the flood will die down soon.
Hey there! If you are reading this feed on Live Journal, I would request that you either delete it from your friends list, or take the trouble to comment back on the original blog entry.
Jim is attempting to kill el billblog LJ feed, but is being unsuccessful so far.
Thanks!
Like, the subject says it all. Check out Live Journal if you haven’t before.
Yayyyy! The RSS feeds for Billblog are working. As usual it turned out to be something simple, obvious, and over looked. The href tag had “feed:” before the
I managed to fix the permalinks issue. The help topic that saved me is posted at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36214. In case it goes away, I’m posting it here, as a duplicate.
Thanks, MWILSON.
To get permalinks woking on my Win/ISS WP installation I created a php.ini and FTP’d it to my domian’s root. I placed the following inside the php.ini:
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
cgi.force_redirect = 0In the WP permalink options I set up the following virtual site structure:
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
This may be helpful for those who cannot access the primary php.ini file in Windows or for those who don’t have direct access to ISS configuration settings.
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Unfortunately, I confess I have no idea what exactly that does, but it worked.
Testing…uno, dos…
The permalink function is screwing up the post call outs, so if you can’t hit my posts after clicking, I’m still working on it.
“Learning curve like the Matterhorn.” That is a quote from The Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. The character in question (Randall Waterhouse) was reffering to Unix, as opposed to small, furry desktop operating systems.
For similar reasons, I’ve always been leery of jumping into the mess that is blogging because I didn’t want to take the time to figure out all of the esoteric crap that you need to know in order to operate a server-side database, SQL junk, etc (See, I don’t even know the correct lingo to complain about it all!)
Never the less, I have decided that posting static html pages is a pain, so I’ll hammer myself into the blogging world the same way I did with other computer applications (and my career): jump in and screw up a few times until I’ve figured it out.
Thankfully, blogging software is quite mature at this time, and surfing around shows an enormous number of different websites or programs that will allow you to do whatever your tender heart desires. See Asymptomatic.net for a comparison of Blog Software . As I didn’t want to spend too much time looking before playing, I decided to go with Asymptomatic’s recommendation: WordPress.
After some trials and tribules, I’m here. I strongly recommend WordPress because of the excellent wiki-based support and help system. It enabled me to get this blog running without too much hassle.
Suffice to say, here’s my blog.