Archive for tag: Technical Difficulties

A Rocky Upgrade

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 @ 11:50 pm | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

I upgraded to the latest version of PHP (5.3) today. Unfortunately it did not go as smoothly as planned. Something strange happened earlier this evening and the blog went outline. I was drowning my sorrows over the Bengals’ loss so I didn’t notice until just a few minutes ago. It was a PIA to upgrade [...]

Down For Maintenance

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 @ 12:00 am | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

Married In Ohio will be down for maintenance starting at 8:45 A.M. on Tuesday. I’m going to replace the hardware that malfunctioned this past weekend. I expect the outage to last for 45 minutes or so; but there is a slight chance that it could take longer than expected to get everything reconfigured. I apologize [...]

Hardware Malfunction

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 @ 9:00 pm | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

We experienced a hardware malfunction on Saturday afternoon that was not fixed until 4PM. So, we were unreachable for almost 24 hours. I know this sort of thing happens; but we always seem to have network problems when tech support (me) is unavailable. (It doesn’t happen that way every time; but it’s not memorable/noticeable if [...]

Not Forgotten, Part 2

Friday, May 29th, 2009 @ 11:00 pm | Bitching | By: Midwestern City Boy

I’ve haven’t been blogging much recently because I’ve been spend most of my spare time “fixing” the OpenID provider that I use. Fixing is in quotes because it worked everywhere except Blogger which, unfortunately, is where I use my identity the most. Google made several changes underneath the covers that altered the way people who [...]

Not Forgotten

Friday, May 22nd, 2009 @ 9:05 pm | Bitching | By: Midwestern City Boy

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been laving as many comments recently. I didn’t I stop reading everyone’s blogs. I just can’t comment when I’m using OpenID to authenticate. If you are on blogger and have the “Who Can Comment” option set to “Anyone” then you probably haven’t noticed any difference except [...]