Archive for November, 2009
WordPress [White Screen of Death]
10
Nov
[update, again: Now I think it's for sure the visitor-maps. I was searching asianfontpack problem and was linked back to my own blog entry (amazing, is it not?) and my blog wasn't working. I renamed the visitor-maps plugin folder and got Stupidoo back and running.]
[update: I wanted to reproduce the problem so I renamed them back and the pages are still showing. I'll try again later. Maybe it's a hiccup since I still got pageviews from yesterday.]
I wanted to post my dual (extended) screenshot and found the Stupidoo was . (yes, you got it right, bbbb..lank)
This came as a shock to me. I am not that kind of person who do too much self-promotion but I do want my blog up and running when I want it to. So I googled and people are saying all sorts of difficult things. Of course it’s something that I have upgraded the other day…which is like 2 days ago already. (Sorry to have disrupted your lives here. I know some of you wouldn’t be able to finish your bowl of rice without reading my blog.)
So I used gFTP to connect to my hosting provider (bluehost.com) and renamed the newly installed plugins one by one. On second one I got lucky and it was the visitor-maps that’s causing the problem. You see, I sorted it by date and renamed them as below:
Oh, and I get to use the category WordPress Stupidity, which I haven’t for a while. (I know it’s not WP. I like WP. It’s just it’s the closest category here on list.)
Zotero community is on.
03
Nov
I started using Zotero back a while ago. Liked it a lot and stick to it up to now. While I heard that Mendeley has good stuff to offer, my loyalty to open and free software has kept me with Zotero. Well, another reason for my sticking to Zotero is that Mendeley seems to be quite aggressive in online marketing. At least, one thing good is that they don’t try to hide it. They say they are Mendeley people and they are promoting it. Still, I don’t like it, anyway. I don’t like the one can of free beer for now (Mendeley is free, so far) and possible catches (who knows what comes after?) for the rest of life (using it).
When I signed on with Zotero, I didn’t fill in personal information and today I found there’s a huge research community now. I have a place to put my profile there and I did give a few information (I am a person who keeps a low-profile, voluntarily, if you ask). Anyway, this community thing is a great idea and I hope it would grow in both people interaction and data sharing.
Good work, Zotero people!! (Oh, by the way, your website is slow and your site flow is not perfect…and thank you for allowing my 107MB of data when the upper limit is 100…so let me know if you need a mirror site in Taiwan. We Taiwanese are cool people like you guys, you know.)