staying.cool

i’ve jumped.

from half to full.

i’m not talking about cups. or bandwagons. or jacks. or pogo-sticks. or any other random association you might make.

the fact that you’re reading this sentence in your reader, should give you a clue.

i’ve read more than a few posts, such as this, and this, this, this, this, this, this [i assume you get the idea now]; all of which play devils advocate on the topic of partial RSS vs full RSS feeds. you have those who prefer to have a summary so they can decide, those who believe some kind of freedom is being affected, talk about the possibility of spamming, and those who talk of advertising advantages. now, i personally don’t mind clicking through on a partial feed (especially given a fx extension that lets me do it in reader direct), and more than a few spammy pings convinced me a few years ago to switch into partial feeds as well. recently, i have even started putting in custom summaries [see how much i love you guys?].

i do mind having my content stolen by spammers [eg: right here].. even if only a few people read it in the first place but, i’m going to suck it up, and no, this is not because i read a lot of posts about how people don’t read partial feeds as much. at all.

i have currently enabled full feeds for everything in this blog, if you do a ‘refresh’ in reader for my feed, you should see it take effect. this is not a momentous occasion, though i’m trying my best to make it feel like one

man, do i make a big hoo-ha about the most random of things..

update: “random of things”?! and not one of you said a thing? damn, damn, damn, damn..

and i am getting the hang of ‘conference’-ing. no major relevations revelations (happy now, galadriel?) about myself or my attitude this time though

so, on a dreary sunday night, i decided to upgrade my wordpress. given the message on the header that i needed to do this ASAP, and that the fantastico doesn’t put it up for another 20 days, i looked in on WPAU. nice plugin install, nice step-by-step upgrading, upgrade database.. and re-login.. and boom! i cannot login. no matter what. my backups zips are apparently corrupted, and there is no mention of such an error on any page i google.

then starts hell. no login works, no login recovery works, the blog randomly kills itself and throws 401 and 402 errors, i get very very frustrated. the mySQL database decides to show me that there is no ‘users’ field (as per the error log). my provider has no clue. this keeps on until 1pm today, when i post on the wordpress forums. i await a solution. i work.

i try again.

…and it works. for no apparent reason, everything is functioning. the plugin matter-of-factly informs me that the upgrade did not complete thoroughly last time, do i want to do it again?

i create my all-important xml backup. then the database backup. i have everything, i can recover if it dies on me.

re-try.

…and it works. perfectly. i re-login. i see an updated dashboard. a little slow, but it catches up. k2 breaks, until i upgrade it too. the blog is alive, and i have no idea why it decided to kill itself for 16 hours. abs. no clue at all. somehow everything is working, i see ‘2.5.1′ in the footer in my dashboard, and i realize just how much this space means to me. hell, i pissed myself off majorly trying to make it come back to life.

i do not know the moral of this post, except that blogs should not mean so damn much. but somehow this one does. to me.

and at the end of it, i have no idea what major improvement 2.5.1 has given me over 2.5. no idea at all.

and i still don’t know why i went crazy either. ah, mystery.

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A lot of times there are upgraded vacation packages with no changes at all. The Cancun vacation packages are know to upgrade promising the Caribbean vacation packages and sometimes even the Myrtle Beach vacation packages experience. But most of the times it is just like the San Diego vacation packages.

rambo, with the final words: “live for nothing. or die for something.” seems bloody enough, seems brutal enough, to carry on the legacy that is rambo. given that stallone gave a class finale to rocky… one can just hope that a finale to rambo doesn’t end up as a movie that should have been called live free, part one.

memories of dubai linger on, 14 years after I’ve left it. given that i’m going to pass through the airport in december, i look forward to a reunion of sorts. however, it must also be said, that when i have $25 mil lying around, i’m retiring there
after all, living in one of the great man-made cities of the world will be something else completely. upto the point that they’re creating their own land. and snow. and everything.

june was an interesting month, more than one thing needed replacing by the end of it.

my beautiful alienware m5500 was struck down - by my own hand - that too, in the prime of its health. today, it languishes as a desktop, while i work on its successor: the HP dv2500t. which i finally received, no thanks to hp’s sucky customer service. to top it all off, they’re located in malad. when i finally blew my top, things started happening. upside: a classy config, and a media center remote. downside: vista. i’ll live, but i’m worried about all the drm talk that surrounds microsoft’s latest little baby. how much i’m going to be affected will decide on whether i go back to XP SP2.

my beautiful nissan altima was smashed up - also by my own hand. i am demoted to carless. hopefully, though, that will be corrected.

my beautiful life (i know, i must be kidding) has been made a function of work. hopefully, i will learn to restructure my day correctly. getting to the lab at 1pm is eventually going to come back and kick me, i know it.

my beautiful marie has posted a new meme. yay.

my beautiful.. wait for july to end now.

4 unfinished posts, and work acry.
i shuffle around themes instead. god knows why.

just fyi.