Friday, 30th January 2004
Family Ink
So here we are, my inked up babies. Naima is currently passed out in her cage, her face buried into one corner and Nimbus is trying to walk around but doing that drunken stagger where one walks sideways, one foot crossing the other. I am trying really hard not to laugh as cats hate to be laughed at and they have such a sorry look in their eyes, but Nimbus in particular is cunting hilarious. They are both still drunk from the anesthesia.
When I got to the vets this morning, she asked me if there wasn’t something in particular that should be tattooed? Apparently some places assign particular alphanumeric combinations for animals or state that the tattoo should be a particular amount of digits and I wasn’t aware of that. I assumed that they had some generic system where they prescribed some kind of barcode type marking. The Woman asked me to verify this with the French Consulate again and so as soon as I got to work I called them. Luckily for me they informed me that I could ink anything on the cats. Anything…
Can I tell you how much self-restraint it took for me not to get some variation of Cunt inked on them? I had to call the vet super quick, so I only had a few minutes to mull it over, but I decided on their names as I am not trying to have any issues whatsoever with French customs. But oh the possibilities…
Wednesday, 28th January 2004
When the word was dumb
Wow, so Wordpress 1.01 might be the worst piece of shit I have ever encountered. Since the last entry has fallen into the abyss of the downgrade, let me explain to you what had done happened…
Yesterday I thought, “my how I do love me some Wordpress, I think I am going to donate some money to the developers and upgrade. Yes, I know I need to save every penny I have since I am moving to France in a month, but this is such a fab and groovy piece of software I think I will afford the developers a little generosity.”
So I donated and then I upgraded.
Mistake, two times over…
The upgrade instructions say: “Backup your database. Yes, you. Right now. Point your browser to upgrade.php. You wanted more, perhaps? That’s it! ”
Evidently somewhere in my psyche I did want more, as I got plenty more, most of which surrounded the central tenet of breaking my fucking website. No more connections to the database for me my friend. No more database connections means no more Proliferations. Motherfucking bitch arse software…
Cena tried to help me and we managed to locate my prior entries and get the site somewhat working but basically the shit was still fucked. To cut a long story short, I just downgraded again to the old version of Wordpress I was using and am seriously contemplating ditching this piece of shit, no helping, waste of money software and hopping on the Movable Type bandwagon. My only issues with that are the possible server overloads that cgi rebuilds can give…
To give you a brief run down of my mental and emotional anguish please consult the following bullet points:
- At one point I wanted to take Wordpress to small claims court and get my money back.
- Wordpress blows.
- At one point I believed that the old HAG from Kinko’s was extracting her revenge on me.
- Wordpress sucks scabby syphilitic dick.
- I said, BITCH, stop throwing your money away on free software.
- Repeated wishes to stab WP in the neck with a pitchfork.
- Junior evidently doesn’t actually READ my entries to be making comments like that.
- Is this why Chris changed to Movable Type?
- Fuck a Wordpress, what about a Word that WORKS for its MOTHAFUCKING MONEY???
All this drama led Koku and I to act like Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth and reminisce over the wonders of good old greymatter. It’s a shame that it fell out of development really, but as we can see, Noah Grey has much better things to do. I mean, what happened to the amazing support that WP’s predecessor B2 had? (Rock on Michel!) Bah, I dunno, I am just bitching now…
Any MT pros and cons would be appreciated here. Inez? Chris? Wreckk? Anyone..?
UPDATE as of February 10th:
I am now back in Love with Wordpress because one of the developers, Mike Little, is an amazing specimen of Humanity and has helped me back into the world of loving wordpress. See here for details.