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I can haz NEW job!

I just accepted an offer from cPanel here in Houston. They make control panel software used by a good chunk of webhosting companies worldwide. While I am, once again, starting in a customer support role, this should involve a lot less phone work, and also (hopefully) a career track more into the software development side of things. Ideally, that should keep things a lot more interesting, as development is the one of the few corners of IT I haven't tried my hand at professionally. At the very least though, I'm just happy to be getting a paycheck again for the first time in more than 13 months. So YAY!

Witchiebunny noted that webmail was broken as well after the upgrade. I've upgraded the webmail software and it should be working again.

*nods* Let me know if you have any more problems.

Hmm... One of your wordpress plugins is using obsolete code. For a temp fix, I disabled your plugins. Try enabling them one by one until you fine the one causing trouble... or, better yet, upgrade them all before re-enabling them. For my own records, the original active_plugins field in wp_options was:

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a:19:{i:0;s:30:"addthis_social_widget_drop.php";i:1;s:19:"akismet/akismet.php";i:2;s:57:"askapache-password-protect/askapache-password-protect.php";i:3;s:28:"category-posts/cat-posts.php";i:4;s:32:"delicious-plus/deliciousplus.php";i:5;s:17:"flickr_widget.php";i:6;s:24:"lightbox-2/lightbox2.php";i:7;s:32:"login-lockdown/loginlockdown.php";i:8;s:30:"no-self-ping/no-self-pings.php";i:9;s:37:"secure-wordpress/secure-wordpress.php";i:10;s:55:"shockingly-simple-favicon/shockingly-simple-favicon.php";i:11;s:27:"simple-tags/simple-tags.php";i:12;s:29:"social-homes/social-homes.php";i:13;s:15:"stats/stats.php";i:14;s:59:"wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php";i:15;s:35:"wordpresscom-popular-posts/wppp.php";i:16;s:21:"wp-polls/wp-polls.php";i:17;s:33:"wp-security-scan/securityscan.php";i:18;s:42:"yet-another-related-posts-plugin/yarpp.php";}

With them all disabled, your blog loads though. If you narrow it down to a specific plugin that's causing the issue, and no upgrade is available (or fixing it) let me know, and we can work on it.

Fraunie... your site looks to be working from here again. I think it might have still been upgrading some small bit of things when I posted this, and it finished shortly thereafter. Anyone still having problems?

PHP has been upgraded to 5.3.3 (from 5.2.x) and perl has likewise been upgraded. (A bunch of smaller packages were upgraded as well.) If you encounter any errors or bugs in your sites that you think might be caused by this, let me know.

Just as a fellow writer, let me just say to keep trying. The reality is though, with only one story, and no artwork or comics or other stuff to surround it, it's nearly impossible to find any sort of audience for an independent website. Write, keep writing, get better, join writer's groups, get feedback, etc. There's a bunch of sites out there that cater to fiction writing in every genre, and you're probably better off getting some stuff up on one of those and getting feedback then trying to run your own site at this point. Heck, I run this whole place, fancy myself a writer, and have dozens of finished stories... and even I still haven't managed to get my personal/writing website up and going after nearly ten years! :-)

1) There are already sites that hosts Oekaki boards here. Stuff slips through, but it's up to you to maintain basic censorship. E.g. deleting outright pornographic images when you find them.
2) Meh, fanservice isn't a problem unless it's outright pornographic.
3) Yes, see #1, other sites have Oekaki boards already.
4) The activity rule doesn't likely apply, for one simple reason... I'm unlikely to approve an application for just an Oekaki site. The existing ones are side-features on sites where people already have their own art or comics.
5) That's not "paid referring" from what you describe. It's just a domain name, and that's fully supported. See "Virtual Domains" on http://xepher.net/help.php


As alluded to in #4, I'm not likely to approve a site just for an Oekaki board. I'm not saying "no" outright, in case you have some new/clever idea you can sell me on, but for the most part, I expect site owners to be producing content. If you have a comic or some such, and a community grows around it, and you want to let that community have an Oekaki board, that's a different thing, but the prime focus of a site needs to be creative content from the owner, or from regular contributors.

Okay, can't afford to move cross country. Sticking in Houston, applying for jobs here.

Okay, done. You should have an email with login info.

Okay, I sat down and read all your posts at once. It is...

Well, it's cliche, it has a lot of typos and other grammar/spelling errors. It doesn't even move a consistent pace.

But, ignoring all that... damn if it doesn't look like you're trying.

Two questions. First, with the 'Cubi and all, I'm presuming this is a spin-off of DMFA and/or furcadia? Second, do you think you can handle all the web stuff to get this online? HTML doesn't have to be fancy, but you've got to be able to manage it yourself (or with help you've procured.)

Heh, congratulations... the closest I ever got to being paid to be in the tropics was I once worked an extra saturday during a hurricane/tropical storm. :-/

Do make sure you see a live volcano though. I spent a week in Maui, and never saw an active one, which is the one thing I regret. Still a fun trip though.

Been real busy with real life stuff, but I haven't forgotten this... I do see you've been making updates, I'm going to read 'em when I get a bit more time.

I'm juggling a lot of thing in real life right now... but this shouldn't be much of a problem. Poke me/this in a few days if I haven't gotten back to you by then.

So I finally got around to putting the pictures from my recent trip up online. Anyone interested can check them out here.

One of my favorites is this one of the seattle skyline. You really need to view it full screen to see the detail.