Archive of ‘blog maintenance’ category

Well, I’m glad that I fixed… most of that problem.

Waking up this morning, I noticed that my blog’s whole alignment was messed up because I had mistakenly updated the theme… so I had to hunt down the old version of the theme that I was using, and had been using for years, and reinstall that on here. That still leaves me with a few minor things to do like adding the word count back to blog posts since I had incorporated that into each post I made (and posts viewed through the main URL), and I might have to put the Google Analytics code back on this blog. Next time WordPress tells me that there’s something available to update I’m going to be extremely careful about what I allow it to update. Although I love earlier versions of this theme, I do not like the changes that were and have been made to later versions. And sadly, it’s not like you can just go back and undo theme updates.

I also installed one of the fonts that the theme recommended trying to fix this, and I love how that looks.

I think this might have been using a second choice font according to the CSS, and I installed the first font that it’s been asking for today. Everything continues to be aligned just the way I want it, although it looks a lot sharper and I have no regrets at all about that. I just wish I hadn’t accidentally upgraded the blog theme…

So I accidentally updated the theme on this blog.

I’ve fixed almost everything that updating that… messed up, I just have to go in at some point and fix a few minor details like adding the word count back onto each post (I did that forever ago, and now I have to find out how to do it again). Surprisingly that didn’t go as badly as I had originally thought it would, but a few of the minor revisions that I had made to this blog years ago managed to go missing for some strange reason.

Do I regret accidentally clicking the Update button on this theme? Yes, but it could have been a lot worse.

I’ll get to fine-tuning everything and fixing it back up in the coming days, weeks, months… whenever I do it.

Simple posts like this make me miss Tumblr…

Sometimes I miss the simplicity of being able to reblog on Tumblr, the whole “set it and forget it” mentality that was so easy to adopt having a blog on their site… but then I remember the site security issues that you could practically get a $1,000 bounty off of on bounty-hunting websites and I’m glad to no longer use it.

In things that I did not expect to actually happen…

For the first time in… ever, I’ve actually had more people from outside the United States viewing this blog than I have the alternative. I’m not quite sure what to think of that. I’ve gotten a few more spam comments which I haven’t allowed to pass through, too. They seem to be originating from the new locations to this.

At any rate, this is Dave Shaw’s final dive. His diving buddy, Don Shirley, began talking at the end of it so that Dave’s final breaths were not heard. Don Shirley is the MVP here and the epitome of an amazing friend.

On Tuesdays, we continue to rip on Tumblr.

This is a screenshot of me and a friend ripping on Tumblr’s “site security”. They continue to refuse to acknowledge that there was a recent data breach, or data leak, even though passwords have now been brute-forced into plain text (they did not use SHA-1 cryptography to hash their passwords, let alone salt them… and I’m not going to get into the fact that passwords hashed with SHA-1 cryptography are now easier to brute-force, that site managers should look into using higher-leveled cryptography). But it is what it is, and I tried to alert them to the problem. It’s out of my hands now. It’s not my problem. I don’t have an account on their site, so none of my data is going to continue to be compromised, especially since I use burner e-mails for fandom accounts and do not replicate passwords. However, I can’t say the same for their other users. I can’t speak for them. But even the barest of statistical analyses would have to say that some of them would have to be using professional e-mails for these sorts of things, that they were replicating passwords, or even that they were using universal passwords (in 2022 of all years, which I am not even going to get into… heh).

I mean, I tried. I really did. I truly did. I didn’t even have to say anything, but I did. They chose to ignore it.

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