Inside the Head of a TV Junkie

Hillary Clinton spoke longer than expected tonight at the DNC on CBS.  That pushed all the shows back 15 minutes the rest of the evening.  I was alerted to this by Mike, but unfortunately, too late to change the recording on my TiVo.  Big Brother suffered on my TiVo this evening!!  Luckily the full episode was available to view on CBS.com by 10.30pm Phoenix time.  Crisis Averted!!

On another note - 500 posts baby!!

I’ve been posting a lot of videos.  I hope this isn’t boring any of you.  I will start again with more text based posts soon!

Thanks for sticking with me and continuing to read!

I decided to update to the newest version of WordPress.  I followed all the directions.  After updating the database, I was asked to log in again.  Not a problem, that’s something that normally happens.  What happened next almost put me in the hospital!  I typed in my username and password and pressed login.  What happens?  The page refreshes and says “Please Login Again.”  So, I do and get the same message.  I start panicking.  What am I going to do if I’ve locked myself out of my blog forever!  This is terrible!  Luckily, Google was there to save the day.  It turns out, all I needed to do was delete the cookies for my site and all would be fixed.  I did so and viola voila!  Happy days are here again.  If any of you are planning on upgrading in the next few days, keep that in mind if you get a kooky message like I did.

Success!  It only took GoDaddy 2 weeks but they finally fixed my FTP issue.  Here’s the thing, the way they fixed the problem was to move my site to a new server.  So, why couldn’t they have done that when I first called?  Anyway, I really can’t complain too much.  I have my FTP capabilities back and I am now able to post my Friday’s Songs again.  Keep your eyes open for a special Friday’s Song later today.  The regular installment will begin again this Friday (tomorrow)

As some of you might have noticed, I have added my Amazon.com wish list to the right sidebar here on my site.  I think it’s a good way to let those of you who would normally be inclined to purchase me a gift what I am looking to receive… smart, right?  ;)  Anyway, it’s on there and it has only a few items at this point in time.  I was visiting my site last night, checking on the page I made for the Benevolent Blogger Project and I noticed something disturbing.  For some odd reason, Amazon.com believes that Friends Season 3 is on my wish list.  Let me just say that this is no the case!  For some strange reason, it is showing this DVD collection and I have no idea why.  The screenshot evidence is below.  So, just an FYI for you all out there, I do not want Friends Season 3 on DVD.

Due to FTP issues at GoDaddy, Friday’s Song will be posted later this weekend.  I have an escalated ticket open that is supposed to be resolved in 24 hours.  Fingers crossed everything works out soon!

—From Wednesday—

I’ve been relegated to people watching, which isn’t so bad. I’m sitting at a Starbucks next to the charter fights counter and the Midwest Connect counter. Some of these people act as though they have never flown before. Granted, that could be the case, but probably not for most of these people. They don’t have their IDs ready, they don’t have their ticket information available, and they don’t know when their flight is even supposed to leave. WHAT? Then how do you know to be at the airport now? It’s semi ridiculous. Also, there are the classic gigantic bags that people are insisting they can carry on to the plane. I’m sure that these Midwest Connect plans are super small and probably don’t have the normal overhead capacity. Why would you argue with a ticket agent? They obviously know if the bag is too large and they’re not going to give you a boarding pass until you check that beast of a bag. Too funny.

I guess another thing that doesn’t making getting stuck at the airport so bad is the fact that I have time to write these posts. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping regular with my posts. Sometimes it’s more difficult than others. Oh, and I guess it’s good that I’m here because I’m getting some good material for this blog.

Even though it was kind of a scary process, I have successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.5.  I did everything as described in the upgrading how to at WordPress.org.  If you use WordPress, I would recommend upgrading soon.  The updated dashboard makes it totally worth it.

Always remember, back up your current site before upgrading.  If you need instructions on how to do this, please check my post about backing up WordPress or do a Google search.

Happy Upgrading!

Backing up WordPress shouldn’t be something that you’ve never done.  If it is, just follow these simple steps to ensure that your site is safe if the worst were to happen.

Download  the WP-DBManager plugin and install it.  This plug in allows you to setup automatic backups of your WordPress database and have them sent to your email for safe keeping.  It’s a requirement for a solid WordPress backup regime.

After you’ve setup the plugin to auto backup your databases, you need to backup your content folders.  I have yet to find any sort of auto program that will do this for you so just setup a time that you’ll go out on your server and backup your content folders.  This should be done weekly, especially if you’re adding lots of stuff to your site.  The main folders to backup are, wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes.  If you have other folders that you regluarly upload items to that you reference in your WordPress site, back those up as well.

Now you’re prepared to restore your site if something horrible were to ever happen.  Let me know in the comments if you have other backup strategies for your WordPress site.

First, let me say that I have added a plugin that allows for my blog to be more easily viewed on an iPhone or an iPod Touch. It really speeds up the load times over EDGE.

Second, I have added a plugin to allow for the admin dashboard to be more easily read on said devices. It is actually quite remarkable.

That being said, this post is coming directly to you from an iPhone running on T-Mobile’s network. Enjoy!