MySQL, MyArse
my blog works again! many, many thanks to shortphat K who mailed and helped me out with some really geeky MySQL code, as well as a pretty quick and effective response from my host. it’s some auto increment thing. if you get it, you get it. i don’t entirely, so i won’t try and explain it, because it might make things worse.
hopefully this will be the last of my blog blues. (say that five times fast.) it also means that i don’t have to go ahead with the idea i was contemplating, of migrating over to an entirely new blog engine (textpattern?) and manually hand-importing my old entries in. phew.
just for dealing with the erratic outage, you guys get to see a super duper falluper exciting video of… a fire drill at the office. basically, it’s a bunch of people walking around, standing about waiting for it to be over, a kid asking his mother, “fire?” and someone sitting still filming the process—all except evacuating the building. enjoy the incessant ringing in the background too, which i sat through downstairs for a good 20 minutes.
later, an announcement went off (not recorded) to thank everyone for the successful fire drill. what? that’s not right. it was complete disaster, you idiots.
YAY for the return of the blog! ok, that cartoon scares me. Just to prove you wrong, i tried (unsuccessfully) to post a response yesterday….but i got like a BILLION WARNINGS much to my horror. it wasn’t very nice about it either….”WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!” i was just like…oh lord
tell me about it. it’s also much worse for me, because it also turns into a blamer for the webmaster: “WARNING WARNING *YOU* GOT SOMETHING WRONG! CHECK *YOUR* SYNTAX! WARNING WARNING *YOU* SUCK” that sort of thing. very unpleasant. and it repeated itself 5 times, too, just in case i wasn’t paying attention the first 4 times.
i can’t actually look at the end of the cartoon. but the slamming of the keyboard i did a few times (with that expression, too).
This is really weird… now I seem to have a problem! I can’t view your blog from home! Even after I cleared my cache… so weird…
Oh btw… the cartoon is hilarious!!! Can I rip it off you? Heh… =C)
spiro> please do! i ripped it off a colleague’s e-mail. :D
(and i can’t view my blog either from home, but i thought it was just me… gaah.)
Are you using Firefox at home too?
i’m using firefox and it works fine.
that cartoon is HILARIOUS. i love it.
my gosh, the cartoon thing totally describes how i feel.
i sorta pulled out the ac adapter from my laptop and this sorta cuboid thing came out as well and its supposed to remain in my laptop. gee do i make sense?
gah hate technology
okay, it isn’t firefox, it’s some cockup with some homes on wireless broadband (i THINK). at least that’s what i’m on. everyone’s able to view my site nicely but i’m drawing up a completely old version of my site from an OLD host, to boot. sooo frustrating.
when i rang starhub up last night, the guy had no idea what a transparent proxy is. and kept telling me to clear my browser cache. BAH.
joana> you have a cuboid thing that’s remaining in your laptop? what? i can’t imagine what that means! haha. see you later tonight (if you see this before then)?
How does wireless broadband screw up the site? And what’s a transparent proxy?? Heh… I’m not good at this.
Also, I’m on SingNet ADSL… not Starhub… does that make a difference?
oh! that makes it even more complicated. i think. because now i can’t blame starhub. I WANT TO BLAME STARHUB. thanks a lot. grrraah.
OK. I’m sorry. I’m on StarHub. Heh.