Well, what do you know? The daily digest of my Tweets finally posted on my blog again. I only spent most of Sunday afternoon banging my head against my desk trying to solve some kind of weird PHP plugin incompatibility that started the day I upgraded the plugin. It had been causing the daily digest of my Tweets to not post to my blog. Heaven forbid anyone miss out on reading my Tweets.

I finally became so frustrated when the fix everyone said was working for them did not work for me, I downgraded the plugin to an older version. Of course, I couldn’t remember which one I had upgraded from, but I knew it was a pretty large version number leap. I picked one at random that stated the daily digest option had been removed from experimental status (it’s back in experimental status with the newest version). This has apparently solved my problem.

This is why I refuse to upgrade the plugin that crossposts my blog to Livejournal, for fear of some fatal error throwing a kink into the Just Orb Broadcasting System. The thought of having to crosspost manually like I used to do it makes me think about jumping in front of a bus. I’ll be testing the upgrade in my sandbox site before I just willy-nilly start hitting “upgrade automatically” buttons.

I only wish I hadn’t wasted most of a Sunday trying to fix the problem on the newest version. But I do get into problems, especially when I know it’s one that can be solved. This one will be solved by greater PHP minds than mine. I could have used the time more wisely continuing to clean up the templates for the site and contemplating a site redesign. Or, you know, coming up with more interesting things to post on my blog than plugin incompatibility woes.

Now that I have spent too much time working myself into a terribly grumpy mood by fighting a nasty clog in the bathroom sink (I have yet to win that war) and spent too much time sitting here waxing woeful over geeky web site stuff, I do believe I should go to bed. I have to buy a new plunger tomorrow … and some Dr Pepper.