Finally, the Final Four

Kansas over Davidson, 59-57. What a nail biter that one was. Davidson’s Cinderella shoe now has slipped off this year, but we now know:

  1. Where Davidson is
  2. The Davidson Wildcats aren’t sneaking up on anyone any more

Congratulations to both teams, for proving again that March Madness is the best madness of all.

Now, on to San AnTexas, Tonio, where the Dance continues.

-k-
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Hoops Time!

Man, I’m glad my little bride asked me who’s playing basketball now. I thought the NCAA games started around 6 or 6:30, like they did last night.

We flipped over from the NASCAR race just in time to see the last minute of Texas/Memphis.

With KU/Davidson to follow. This Davidson team is no fluke, having come this far. They have nothing to lose, and with their talent, will be a tough opponent. Please, Kansas, think about that. Think about my office pool.

Rock Chalk!
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And the Banner Flies

And, the memory_limit is at 16MB, 2.5 WordPress files in place, database upgraded, and tbbs-land now proudly flies the WP 2.5 banner.

Another successful upgrade, and another lesson in my computing life.

Now, I can relax, watch the NASCAR race, and get ready for exciting hoops to follow.

Thanks, WordPress, and Hosting Guy!
-k-
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Passing time

I’ve found it helpful after opening a support ticket, to follow up with a few e-mail notes to be added to the ticket. This causes activity in the ticket queue, and hopefully lets the support guys know they’re not dealing with someone who just fell off the yam wagon.

Sounds good, anyway. Or maybe some of the BOFH karma that I’m sometimes guilty of, has come back to bite me.

-k-

Waiting on Hosting Guy

It appears to me I need the maximum script memory increased in php.ini. I found that file;I have read/write permissions to it, according to a ls -l. I found the memory_limit line therein, bumped it up, and now vi refuses to write the changed file. I can create files in the directory, I just can’t change the one file I need changed.

Shared hosting is a blessing because of low cost, and a curse because of situations like I’m in now.

So, I’m waiting, not exactly patiently, on action on my ticket…
-k-
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Upgrade woes Persist

Well, we’re still back at WP 2.3.3 here in tbbs-land. Good backups have been my friend. Thus far, I’ve

  • Reinstalled WP 2.5
  • Switched to default theme.
  • Kicked up MaxRedirects to an obscenely high number
  • Disabled all plugins
  • Been greeted with the white screen of death on running the upgrade

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Error logs indicate a PHP memory allocation error, so there’s now an open ticket with my webhost.
-k-
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Support Fora

For heaven’s sake, please title your support plea in a manner that suggests the nature of your problem. Hint : titles such as “URGENT upgrade issue”, “____ is broken”, “HELP”, don’t cut it.

While I’m at it, replies to fora posts that are something like “same thing happened to me” aren’t helpful either. I guess former AOL-ers surface everywhere now.

Yes, I’m steamed that my WordPress upgrade didn’t go as planned. But still.

For now, I have basketball, cold beer, and steamed shrimp. Neener, neener, neener.

-k-