Wordpress Weirdness & Tour Updates
If you’ve noticed some weird formatting issues over the past few days, it’s due to the WordPress v2.0 upgrade I did on my server.
They included the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor, which for people not used to writing HTML code, is really useful. For a web designer perfectionist such as myself, it’s extremely annoying. It would clean up my written code and change the formatting to what it thought I was trying to do, but it usually screwed my whole website up (such as making everything centered, or adding too many line breaks after sentences). I finally figured out how to turn it off (the profile editor, a new feature to WP 2.0) and everything seems to be back to normal.
They also included a new spam fighting utility in the new version using the Akismet spam checker. It uses Wordpress’s new database plugin to the server with a special key you have to register. When set up, it will check all of the comments on your website from previous and future posts for spam words and sites against it’s massive database. That combined with my image verification on the comments posts, I haven’t gotten any spam since I installed the new version.
I’m enjoying some downtime today from the tour at DJ Cactus’ dad’s house. We had a few equipment issues yesterday before the show so we pulled everything out and have been running through some tests and balances so everything sounds great for the next venue we have to use it at. Honestly it was something that should have been done before we even left, but we just didn’t have the time.
Tomorrow we’re all working on getting a venue in Sacramento signed since we have a whole other day in Northern California before we head south to Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday. I’ll be spending the rest of the night printing press releases and interviews from Wordsmith to present to the club venues to help get us in the door. I’ve also got a list of record companies in Los Angeles that I’m sending some stuff to in the hopes that maybe a few will show up and sign one of these groups.
Speaking of which, GoldenChild and his crew are heading to California tomorrow morning. Coming from Houston it’s a two day trip on I-10 all the way into L.A., but we’re just excited about him coming back. He missed a hell of a show last night at King’s Inn and it would be a damn shame for him to miss the two biggest shows on our tour in Long Beach.
On a side note, if you notice I haven’t been updating the photo gallery with the new pics instead of posting them on the main pages of dailyhaggis.com and onefryshort.com. here’s the reason: I’m on dial-up. Yes, ladies and gents, as in 56k baud torture. My galleries timeout when i’m uploading picture, so i’m waiting until I have access to a broadband connection before I update them. For not I’ll just continue to post them on the main sections so everyone can see em.
That’s all for now. The next post probably won’t be until I make it to Los Angeles and finish with the show at Club 49. I’ll post many pictures and will have another article by then.
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