Jason Griffey

Well, it appears that ibiblio pulled the plug on my virtual hosting, which was why the pics didn’t work these last few days. I’ve also been politely asked to take a look around for other hosts, which I’ll happily do if Ibib doesn’t think that what I’m doing here conforms to their mission. They’ve fixed the hosting issue (at least mostly) and after I get back from vacation I’ll see if they still want me to move, and look around for hosting.

…again today. Headin’ towards Las Vegas for a few days, visiting an old college friend who has lived there way too long for this to be our first visit. I’ve got my money set aside for a day of $2/4 limit hold’em, so wish me luck.

Here’s some pics of Epcot, since Trish asked for them.

So we’re back from the Disney extravaganza, and it looks like the blog has been killing comments again. Spam Karma 2 just isn’t working for my needs…it’s not allowing me to easily go back and retrieve comments it incorrectly marks as spam. So no more Spam Karma, and more me moderating things manually. If you’ve left a comment and it got eaten, please let me know.

Disney stories to come, along with enough pictures to choke a horse.

After 3 exhausting days, we’re still trekking through Disney. Today = morning in MGM, abusing the hell out of Early Magic Hours to ride the Tower of Terror and the Rock n Rollercoaster before anyone else got in the park. Dinner was in the Magic Kingdom at the Crystal Palace with the Pooh characters (my sister’s dream dinner) and then evening in Animal Kingdom on safari and getting soaked on the Kali River Rapids. Last night was Illuminations and Epcot.

All in all, another fabulous, exhausting day.

After nearly 9 hours of driving we arrived at the lovely Holiday Inn, St. Augustine Beach. The weather, not exactly cooperative, decided to be cool, windy, and cloudy as hell. We walked on the beach anyway.

After some local pizza, we’re turning in. Tomorrow = up early, quick visit to historic St. Augustine, and then onwards towards The Mouse.

…my last day at MTSU. Tomorrow will be the first day of my vacation, and hopefully more regular posting to the blog for a bit. I have a backlog of things I want to talk about: Shirky’s ontology discussion, more thoughts on authority as a measure of reliability in knowledge gathering, and more random pop culture reflections. But those will have to wait a bit, probably ’til after Disney. 🙂

Pics of the Mouse upcoming this week. Be ready.

Trish pointed out that my RSS feed seems to be broken, and I’ve spent some time trying to find out what’s going on without success. The actual RSS script is calling the database info and such, and should build the feed dynamically (as opposed to some software that builds the XML every time an update is done). The comments feed isn’t working either, but I tracked that to a link issue. The main RSS feed, when it runs, just generates a blank doc with nothing there.

Perplexing.

I can’t find anything in the WordPress Codex either. Anyone out there using WP with any ideas?

EDIT: So this is stranger than ever. When I checked the RSS at home, it worked fine. Here at work, nothing. I updated my .htaccess rules thinking there might be a rewrite issue in retrieval, but…well, it worked at home, just not here. I’m really, really perplexed.