Whoops
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Yeah, you may have noticed something weird with the website over the last 24 hours.
Or, more to the point, you may have noticed nothing, which was exactly what was showing if you were a Firefox user. If you used Google Chrome or Internet Explorer, you got to see a few cached pages, but that was it. We experienced our first extended downtime since 2006.
In layman’s terms, an upgrade that we attempted to do yesterday afternoon required a newer version of PHP than we were using, and as a result the entire site crashed. Thankfully, the good folks at PurpleCat Networks were on the job and were able to get everything up and running for us.
There’s still some weirdness that needs to be sorted out, but everything seems to be back to normal. Let us know if you see anything funky.
Thanks for your patience.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna crack open a cold one and watch the rest of the Denmark v. Japan match.
24 Comments
June 24th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
I’m just checking out the fancy new comments functions. Evidently I can click on the box with the arrows and write my comment in a fun little edit box.
After submitting, I can then come back to edit? Sweet.
Yup – I just added this line after already submitting.
Admin – Is there a time limit on how long I have to edit comments? It seems strange to have folks’ comments be forever editable…
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June 24th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Ys, gd wrk t ll cncrnd. dmn Hlgn (dspt bng vn mr f crmdgn thn ) gt th jb dn.
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June 24th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
For now, people have five minutes from the time they submit each comment to make corrections or even delete. I’m not married to that time limit, and I could be talked into additional time if the need arises, but since most comments are one-liners, that should suffice. If anyone catches an error after that time limit, feel free to shoot us a message via the Contact Us page and we’ll fix it ASAP. The functionality for users to edit their own comments was always there in the WP core – it just needed to be brought out to the front-end and prettied up a little.
There’s also a spellcheck function, for those instances when Don Yelton, Richard Bernier and Chad Nesbitt show up.
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June 24th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
What’s with the rude, snarky attitude of the Admin Hooligan, especially in his comments to Ralph. It’s off-putting and inconsistent with the always cordial tone set by Gordon. Would you equally rude if not anonymous? If you are going intentionally insult, in such a small, mean, minded way, don’t hide behind “Admin Hooligan.” The world is made of honorable people who reasonably disagree. Be nice.
June 24th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Hvy dty n, hp… nd ll th lghts n shvll wll stll dm.
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June 24th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Diogenes,
Admin Hooligan is sovereign. Admin Hooligan operates by his own rules.
Think of Admin Hooligan as ‘bad cop’.
June 24th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Now Admin, be nice……you’re asking for diversity, but then make off-putting remarks about the BCGOP’s gentlemens writing styles.
Personally, some of my most brilliant buddies are simply not good at spelling, or grammar, yet their opinions or viewpoints are still valid. And they can figure out a math or technical problem in record time.
If you want diversity here, you must be willing to look beyond the petty stuff like spelling typos and faulty grammar, and consider the viewpoints. IMHO
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June 24th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Easy targets, to be sure… and I know that you’re not making a hasty generalization by saying the aforementioned Three Stooges are brilliant by proxy… the spellcheck function is there for them or anyone who wants to use it. Just sayin’. (It works pretty well, too…)
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June 24th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
<>dmn Hlgn prts by hs wn rls.
Tht’s fn — rflcts n y, Grdn, nt m.
Bt mch s ht grng wth Dvyn, sh’s ntrly rght.
dmn nn nds t ply ncr. ’ll b plt f h wll. Cmmn cvlty trmps ny dmn Hlgn rls.
Bt, th by cn cd th’ hck t Wrdprss. Lt’s stff ‘m n th bsmnt ntl h gts Wrdprss 3.0 smkn’.
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June 24th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Yet you have no problem hiding behind a screen name yourself?
June 24th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
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June 24th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Dixiegirlz/Davyne/whatever your name is – if your friends are as prone to logical fallacies as you are (“some of my most brilliant buddies are simply not good at spelling, or grammar”, ergo the BCGOP Brain Trust are brilliant as well* = secundum quid), I’m sure they won’t be missed by anyone here.
* Their past actions have spoken volumes against this assertion.
June 24th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Whdd sh sy t gt ht wth 12? Mst bn whppr r ls thr’s rl tlrnc prblm n ths brd.
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June 24th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
“Dixiegirlz/Davyne/whatever your name is – if your friends are as prone to logical fallacies as you are (“some of my most brilliant buddies are simply not good at spelling, or grammar”, ergo the BCGOP Brain Trust are brilliant as well* = secundum quid), I’m sure they won’t be missed by anyone here.”
While I am particularly good at certain visual artistic endeavors, I’m a lousy musician…some people write well, some people do math well. I don’t do math well, but had a 4.0 average in college in literature, but my math grades were in the tank. My point is (which you missed) that people can excell in one area and be totally inept in others…no one is universally brilliant. People can have provacative or thought producing points to make, but may not spell or use grammar properly. So what???
Isn’t it the thought or idea that is important?
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June 24th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I like Scrutiny Hooligans because it’s smart and funny. I hope that people who post here will be smart and funny. Scrutiny Hooligans is also fairly irreverent. I like that too. If you’re smart, funny, and fairly irreverent – please let us know if you’d like to become a regular front-pager. We’d be glad to have you.
If someone says something that’s really ridiculous, I would hope that folks would call that person out – no matter their station or sensibility. This is a group blog that can have its own personality and rules. It will not be all things to all people.
It’s a big internet. Everyone’s welcome here, and they’re welcome to find or establish communities elsewhere if they don’t like it here.
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June 24th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Regarding grammar and spelling – If there’s a spellcheck, then use it.
Good spelling and good grammar remove barriers to people considering your argument. That’s true everywhere, not just here.
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June 24th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
“If someone says something that’s really ridiculous, I would hope that folks would call that person out – no matter their station or sensibility. This is a group blog that can have its own personality and rules. It will not be all things to all people.”
But of course…I’m hoping I’m not giving the impression that no one should call out someone who is being ridiculous…that goes without saying (God knows I’ve done my fair share of being both ridiculous and calling out) However, just because I don’t agree with a particular point of view, if it’s not ridiculous, just different, it should be tolerated and perhaps even pondered upon.
For example Mr. Smith at Tuesday night’s meeting the Mayor made a ridiculous statement regarding your not supporting sidewalks on Tunnel Road. You let her slide, and instead looked downright perplexed, like a little boy wondering what he’d just done wrong. JMHO
June 24th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Thanks for your tolerant values, Davyne.
Regarding the most recent CC meeting, I responded to those statements, thanking the Mayor for the opportunity to restate my support for multimodal transportation.
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June 24th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Seems to me that the only people who argue that we ought to waste our time pondering the words of fools are the fools who want their words pondered. JHMO.
June 24th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
“Good spelling and good grammar remove barriers to people considering your argument. That’s true everywhere, not just here.”
Is spell check on this forum? If so, it’s been missed by me.
If I’m on a very tight-assed forum like the NYT, with a substantive debate then I’ll be double and even triple check. But local, casual chit-chat doesn’t seem so very necessary.
Still I’m very happy with an edit button.
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June 25th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Bork bork bork bork, bork bork? Bork bork…
Bork bork: BORK!
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June 25th, 2010 at 11:11 am
A Mr 2 machines or whatever,
You’ve totally missed my point…we’re thinking / writing / speaking on different levels.
Seems to me that the only people who argue that we ought to waste our time pondering the words of fools are the fools who want their words pondered. JHMO”
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June 26th, 2010 at 6:49 am
“Mr 2 machines” ha! My first laugh o’ the day.
For the curious.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 9:10 am
Hey Tom, a big THANKS! Love learning something new.
“A deus ex machina is generally undesirable in writing and often implies a lack of creativity on the part of the author. The reasons for this are that it does not pay due regard to the story’s internal logic and is often so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though perhaps more palatable, ending.[14]
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