May 30, 2006 | blog
It seems that Performancing has been having some difficulty the past few days. The details are a bit fuzzy, though it seems that their systems are receiving data, but are unable to keep up on processing it.
On Saturday, May 27th, Nick Wilson mentioned that they were working on the issue:
Just to let you know that we’re aware of the reported metrics problem and are on the case Please give us a little time to work out whats going on and how to sort it and I’ll post back here when we have any news.
It looks like the problem started around mid-day on Saturday, and has continued on for the past four days. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to view your metrics while the system is having issues.
I’ve been using the metrics for a few months now and view them as very accurate and have been helpful to me in understanding my traffic patterns. The loss of Performancing right now is only slight – I am mostly using it for my own curiosity, though I’m anxious to view my traffic for the last few days.
Apr 11, 2006 | blog
Ugh! Somewhere I must have deleted a “/div” statement. The strange thing is that it shown up a few hours after I had done some editing of the index.php file, so it was hard to track down.
Thanks to the forums over at WordPress.org – they helped me find the simple things that most users miss when editing their layout files.
Apr 10, 2006 | blog
Ugh, more layout/rendering issues. I’ve had this happen before where the darn sidebar all of a sudden starts rendering after the end of the main page. Not sure what caused this all, but last time it had to do with the code from StatCounter being in the wrong PHP template file. This behavior started around 8pm CT tonight, and I had not made a change to the site, so I’m a little confused at the moment as to what is causing the problem.
Anyway, I’ll be working to figure out what the issue is and make it right. Sorry for any inconvienence! The sidebar content is here, just scroll down to find it.
UPDATE: Nothing so far, I’ve reviewed all the theme files, and believe it may be related to something else because it happens with the “kubrik” theme as well, which has not been modified on my installation. Well, I’ll keep working at it – strange though, because I did not change anything.
Apr 4, 2006 | blog
I’ve been putting off posting on the .mobi top level domain. I’m not sure yet… I do agree with Russell Beattie on his points of why its a “good thing”. Having a standard is very useful, as Russ points out, to be able to know that you can go to yoursite.mobi and have a mobile page formated correctly for your device.
It’ll be nice if it all works - sites need to adopt this for it to really become useful, and of course, every site needs to purchase another domain. This is the part that I really have an issue with. Why not simply have your site automatically reconfigure the output based on the resolution or browser string? Guess that makes too much sense.
Mar 21, 2006 | blog
Recently I’ve been wondering what to do with the posts on my old blog(s). Before setting up shop here at RickMahn.com, I had tried out MSN Spaces, Blogger, and then WordPress.com. Each of which allowed me to learn more about what blogging is, introduced me to the blogosphere, and let me experiment with different platforms. As I learned more about the tools, I started to settle on the platform that seemed to work best for me. That was WordPress. The experience over at WordPress.com convinced me that it was the best blogging platform for me – though I wanted to have full control of the system, server, etc… so I ended up setting up my own hosted WordPress installation.
A recent post by Kent Newsome got me thinking about it, though I’ve not the same problem that he describes. I was kind of testing the waters and since I was not a pioneer in blogging, or even a real early adopter, I’ve the luxury of being able to find out what everyone else’s opinions of the free sites, the pay sites, and the “go it your own way” crowd thinks about all the blogging choices. And taking that all in, I’m glad that I can sort of start from scratch with my system of choice and work toward the future.
Now Kent is right, it will probably be up to WordPress to create a good migration tool to support migrating from a different platform to WordPress as large companies like Blogger (Google) stand to loose ad revenue from people leaving their system and want to discourage anyone from doing so. Of course WordPress has an Import utility which should word for my needs, but would not work for Kent’s as he has a lot of history on his site and would need to keep the permalinks to all existing content. And that is the real challenge, not just to Import existing posts & comments, but to migrate them in such a way as to keep all the links alive and functioning for reference, search bots, etc…
This is an opportunity for some enterprising programmer to come up with a migration tool to support the major blogging platforms. As time goes on, each platform will win or loose user favor and one thing should be simple – the migration of a blog from one platform to another. Anyone going to take up the challenge?
