Hell’s Half Acre

What an ABSOLUTE Farking headache! I’ve been at this since early yesterday and I’m still not absolutely certain it is fixed. My one saving grace is that I ALWAYS button down the files on my server. They are ALL and ALWAYS set to 0644 (file permissions) and 0755 (directory). So no hacks to the php’s or uploading of php’s disguised as jpegs. I think I’m getting referrals but they seem to be from old Google cache. At least that is what I am hoping. I somehow managed to hose my database when I changed all the table prefix names and that threw me for another wild goose chasing loop. I could never recover from it (the website was up by I had no admin function) and finally resorted to uploading an old database update.

I’ve also removed ALL users who registered on the site (it never was required) and did everything that the article I linked to yesterday from Holy Schmoly recommended. The hardest thing was to change the database table prefixes and while I found a script that would have done that, I decided to do it manually, just for the doubt. I forgot to change wp-config.php afterwards and WP thought I was doing a new install and I think that is what hosed the database. If you’re doing this, make SURE you backup your database (I did it with phpadmin instead of the WP plugin because I wanted to be absolutely certain of it).

If wordpress.com hosts your database I don’t think you’ll have any problem.

In other news, it was grey and overcast and so incredibly muggy yesterday and all the rain has created super-colonies of mosquitos. I’d forgotten how bad they could be after much rainfall. It is simply awful out there unless you are immediately on the beach and enjoying a strong offshore breeze. Otherwise you’re totally screwed and fresh meat for the hungry mozzies. I’ve been trying to ensure our vacant neighbor palapas are either free of standing water or I drop detergent in the standing water to make it inhospitable to mozzies looking to grow the family.

I’ve dropped 6 kilos so far and am very proud of myself. I have never set out to lose weight before and (who knew!) that limiting intake while increasing burning would make such a profound difference? Go figure! I’ll probably play with this theme more later and might add other themes that you can switch to but right now I have a LOT of studying to catch up on. If you run WordPress, please make sure to upgrade and visit the link above. Sigh. Oh, I thought I’d add a pretty picture to take my mind off the mozzies, hackers and lack of studying. It is COMPLETELY unrelated to current events (as I post, I don’t even know what pic I’ll choose! :))

Oh, and Jamie would like everyone to know he is a crackpot driver. Um, maybe just a crackpot. Hmm… I don’t think that’s the message he wanted to impart. Maybe a race-car diver in-training? Nope, I’m pretty sure that’s not it either. Hmmmm….maybe a cracker-jack driver? A crappy driver? NO! I KNOW he wouldn’t have wanted that message sent. Would he???? Oh, and he is TOTALLY all about the journey too! Except when he’s driving. And then there is no journey. But back to the driving. He is a really really really good driver. Except when he’s driving to Punta Allen. (i’m not sure I was able to convey the message he had in mind)