ace’s blog

So does anybody know what today is??  It’s closing day!  So long big, beautiful brick house with no linen closets and a tiny pantry!  You had a big yard and that probably would be fun to have but I won’t miss the 2 1/2 hour lawn maintenance days; I won’t miss dragging sprinklers around the yard till 8pm; I won’t miss living in a neighborhood where nobody is outside unless they are getting into their cars to drive somewhere, not in the neighborhood.

I will miss the large yard (just not taking care of it); I will miss having my master bedroom downstairs; I will miss having a 500+ sq foot bonus room where my computer equipment lived, lonely sitting up there unless I was up there visiting it; I will miss the kitchen that was totally awesome and had double convection ovens.

So there you go, the abbreviated Memphis chapter in our lives is now closed, not to be sorely missed by myself or my wife (Aaron never gives us a straight answer!).

Well, it’s February 26th and we close on our house in 2 days!  It’s not too late for someone (YOU!) to snatch up a beautiful, (nearly) 3,000 sq ft, all brick vacation home in Bartlett, Tennessee!  Check out this site and send in all offers!  Don’t be shy about offering more than we are asking either.

Alright, enough of that.  I’m so excited the house is almost gone. A good friend of mine hooked us up by finishing up some small stuff that the buyers wanted done and the only thing we have to do now is wait for the closing paperwork, sign it and overnight it and then be done with Memphis FOREVER! (evil laugh).  The only thing I will miss about Memphis was the wonderful people I worked with.  In the end, it was the city that drove us back to sunny Florida.

About a month ago, I wrote a post about getting an offer on our house. That offer was crap and the people knew it. We countered their offer and they have yet to get back to us. I’m thinking they just couldn’t afford the house and were hoping that we’d give them a good deal on it.

Well yesterday, my wife got an email from our realtor (who is not a good realtor, stay away!) saying that she may have an offer for us. This morning, we woke up and my wife checked her email for any word. Well we got an offer on the house…a much better offer! We are in the haggling stages right now but I’m thinking that these people are going to be the buyers! Oh, the best part of the offer, should we eventually accept a modified form of it is that they want to close on Feb. 28th! Of this year! I’m looking forward to the counter to our counter.

UPDATE: We accepted an offer on the house.  We have some painting that these lazy people either can’t or don’t want to do but this may just be the end of the Memphis chapter in out lives!

I just found this badass site for searching through the WordPress source code!  This site makes searching through the source very easy!  It is a PIA to search through the source code by hand.

I use Dreamhost for hosting all of my sites. They offer something awesome called “one-click installs“. If you’ve installed any of the software that they offer to install for you, you can upgrade that software with the click of a button. I’ve upgraded my blog several times using that method. Usually it is painless and I don’t have to do anything other than wait for the emails saying that the upgrade was complete. This time was different.

I was getting an error that said that something was being redefined and that you couldn’t do that. I can’t remember the exact error message. When the one click installer is performing an upgrade, a copy of the currently installed software is created in a new directory on the server. I deleted the directory that the WordPress software was installed in and restored the previous version (by renaming the newly created directory). What I expected to happen was that my blog would be back to normal. Nope. I was still getting the same error. So I tried deleting my cache and refreshing again. Nope, still didn’t work, still getting the same error.

I wasn’t sure what to do next. I reasoned that surely the WordPress development team wouldn’t release something with such a blatant error in it and the only other code that is executed would be the plugins. Since I couldn’t get a view of my blog, I couldn’t deactivate any of the plugins; I had to delete them. I made a backup of my plugins folder and deleted every plugin in the folder.

It turned out that I was using an old version of the LiveJournal Crossposter plugin. I updated that and that fixed the issue. Problem solved…finally.