SO… long time without saying much. If I can fix my broken installation of Expression Engine I’ll be back, if not I will probably just say adios to blogging.

I need to get that /?/ part out of the urls so that search, etc will work. I found a hack in the wiki that might work. The fix I’ve been using in the htaccess doesn’t seem to work anymore and I don’t have access to the php.ini to fix the path info there.

Any EE geeks reading? I’d love a little push in the right direction!

It’s a new record for staying away from blogging I think. Last post was really July 8th?

Guess I had a busy summer!

Actually, the thing of it is that I had planned to get back to posting here except that while I was away on vacation my web host upgraded a few things, including mySQL. Of course I knew this was coming but neglected to pay much attention since we were in the midst of a heat wave and the last thing I wanted to do was be online.

In fact I was so sure things there would be no problems that I didn’t even check when vacation time was over. It wasn’t until about 10 days ago that I actually took a look after seeing the screen shot of my site on Ravelry, and saw the lovely error message. My host said it was probably a script or plugin that needed updating (um, can we say OBVIOUSLY here?) so I just left it until I was in a mood to do a little bit of googling, and pray for an easy fix.

Long story short (for anyone who cares or might have the same issue) is that the new version of mySQL running this site parses JOIN statements a bit differently from the previous version. Just took finding a couple of places to insert some brackets and we’re back in business!

Now if I just had something interesting to say…

I’ve changed how my blog feeds work.

I had them set to show only the title, but it seems a lot of people really REALLY don’t like that.

So now you see either the entire post (if it’s short) or the first paragraph (or first photo) if it’s a longer post, but still have to go to my blog to see the entire thing. I figure this way you’ll see enough of the post that if you really want to see more, you’ll take time to visit and if not… no worries! (and no having to guess what the title is actually all about).

Hope this brings a few more people back to read my random posts. I will try to be more regular. (I’ve heard that hemp hearts are great for this - oh wait! Wrong kind of regular....)