On the Road

Since I’m going to be on the road and away today and possibly tomorrow, I imagine there will be a good deal of Tweeting and other post-by-phone methods of boring you all to tears with the minutia of my existence. I don’t have my blog set up to post each Tweet (and the daily digest doesn’t seem to be working), so if you want to keep up with all my Twittering, you can find me at Twitter or read them in the sidebar at my web site. And they’ll all be posted at Facebook as well, if we are connected over there.

I’m not saying you have to be interested, because I have no idea if I will be interesting or not, but until I work out my Twitter communication problems, there’s a lot of 140 word babbling that hasn’t been getting to my web site in a particularly useful way. I’ve actually been doing a lot of Tweeting lately. I think I am becoming addicted!

More coffee is brewing, and then I guess I better plant my butt in the truck and get rolling. My mom and my dentist await my arrival in Fritztown, and I wouldn’t want to disappoint either of them by being late. Well, not too late. As far as my mom is concerned, I’m pretty certain she already thinks I’m late, because I’m not there yet. :lol:

The Circle Completed

I have done it. I have taken control of my online existence. I have fed the ouroboros his tail. The circle is completed. I am now able to post audio, video, photos, and text to Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, and my own blog all at one go. No muss, no fuss, easy as I please from anywhere in the world with cell phone towers. Additionally, I can post to just some places or groups of places or filter what I post at those places. And no damn expensive data plan necessary!

Ever see the movie Hackers? When Cereal Killer is broadcasting on the hacker network and he says “I kinda feel like God” … yes, that is kinda how I feel right now.

Woo hoo!!! I have Posterous to thank for it. Great service, and I hope it lasts. Why, I think I’d even pay a little every month to use it, but for now, it’s FREE. How cool is that? I did have a few problems getting it all set up, but once I did, it all worked like a charm, as evidenced by the previously posted photo of Sasha that went absolutely everywhere at once. Everywhere … at once.

With all that said, it’s highly likely I will be terribly annoying today as I try things out with all my new god-like posting abilities. I doubt I will end up doing massive crossposting from my phone too much once the newness wears off, seeing as I am so infrequently out and about and wanting to post things, but now I freaking CAN, if the mood strikes. I really can’t tell you how excited I am about this. I’ve been trying to get this all worked out for ages.

In other news, I had to log into the T-Mobile web site to get some information, and that was when I noticed that our phone bill wasn’t lower as it was supposed to be when our new contract kicked in. Somehow, they are screwing us on the family plan messaging. I thought we had that straightened out, but now it looks like maybe they canceled our unlimited family messaging altogether while simultaneously charging us for unlimited messaging (in a really odd way). There isn’t much we can do about it until the next bill comes out and we finally see what the hell they have done. I expect there will be some kind of insane muddle involving speaking to idiots at customer service when all is said and done. I do love the T-Mobile service. It’s very reliable and works everywhere I need it to work, but their billing department seems to be staffed by monkeys on heroin.

And now I think I’ll have my second cup of coffee, a little breakfast, and make out the shopping list. Even though I slept very poorly last night and would really not go shopping today, we need some of those things that are total requirements for continued existence. I’ll just have to caffeinate myself as much as possible, get the shopping done as quickly as possible, and then … a nice nap (or two).

The only problem I have at the moment is that I haven’t figured out how to attach categories to the Posterous crossposts at LJ and my blog, but if it’s possible, I’m sure I’ll eventually figure out how.

World Domination

This very morning, I have finally discovered how to send photos to the internet from my phone … without the expense of a ridiculous data plan. Neither my cell phone service nor my cell phone makes it easy to do, because I am certain they would much rather get more money out of me, but I knew it was possible, and I finally got it worked out. Yippee!

At the moment, I can get photos and text directly to Facebook, TwitPic, and Twitter. The last piece of the puzzle is getting the photos to crosspost to my blog, which will then (hopefully) also crosspost to all the places those posts go. There must be a way to accomplish it, and I bet I eventually figure out how to do it.

For now though, I am just tickled to be able to get photos on-the-go to the places I can. Very cool! My online empire continues to grow.

Today Twitter … tomorrow, the world!

WordPress Users

Should you find, after upgrading your version of WordPress, that attempting to publish a post results in it not publishing and a page being displayed which reads “your attempt to edit this post has failed” and asks you to try again, I have found a way to make that stop happening.

1. open the file post-new.php found in the wp-admin folder
2. find the line that says wp_enqueue_script(‘autosave’ ); and type // in front of it to turn it into a comment rather than a command
3. save the file and replace the old one on your ftp client

This disables the autosave of the posting page. Not having autosave on does mean running the slight risk that your browser will crash, the electricity will go out, or some other crisis will leave you having written a thousand words and not having a single one of them saved, but in my eyes, it’s worth that slight risk not to have to jump through hoops to get my posts to publish the moment I hit the publish button.

And if this is the only problem I am going to have after upgrading, I’d say it’s gone very well. I should have upgraded ages ago. The new backend is very nice!

Upgrade Done

Only one small moment of complete panic, but I think I just successfully upgraded my blog without anything breaking. Well, I guess we’ll find out for certain once I make this post!

Now all I have to do is get used to the entirely new interface on WordPress. Looks nice, but considering how huge the jump was between the version I was using and the newest version, there are –to say the very least– massive amounts of changes to everything on the back end of my precious blog. I’m sure I’ll adapt.

Guess I’ll post this and see what explodes when I do so. :lol:

Upgrade Coming

I am about to upgrade my WordPress installation, so at any moment, my entire blog could freak out. Rest assured, I will panic and fix it by day’s end, if something should go horribly wrong. :)

Preemptive Apology

The circle is not complete. The ouroboros can’t catch its tail.

There continues to be a chink in the continuity of my online empire.

I believe the creation of a secondary Twitter account is necessary. Because, you know, I use the one I have so very, very much.

::snort::

I’m going to be making some changes to the way all the various bits of my life on the internet are woven together. Nothing too major, I don’t think. I doubt any of you would even really notice, but if you did, I wouldn’t want you to think I didn’t like you if I stopped following you on one service or something like that. Because it just means I have other ways to communicate with you that work better for me. I’d like to avoid any unnecessary drama about who’s following who or befriending who and whatnot.

I promise that any changes I make to the way my online life and real life intersect will be for the better for everyone. Most people will likely be hearing more from me and not less, and it will be the things they want to hear. Now that can’t be a bad thing, can it? Who doesn’t need more Orb in their lives?! Better yet, I’ll probably end up hearing from many of you more often as well.

I just don’t want there to be any drama about it. OK? I promise, I’m not breaking up with any of you! We’re still BFF’s 4ever!

So you’ve been warned. If you discover you are bothered by the fact I have put you on a different filter or stopped reading your Tweets or taken you off my friends list (or whatever it is wherever it is), please contact me privately about it. I bet you will discover that you are still able to do so in more than one way. Instantaneously too, which means I’m not dissing anyone or angry at anyone or hating on anyone. I swear.