PolarLava::Blog

The Entity IV: In The Black

I'm looking down on a little boy
Don't get too close now, you'll fall inside
Go away now, don't play around
You didn't listen, got drawn inside
Now I hear you, you're just a mind
Like a story, you've heard before
Didn't want to believe it, it's so absurd

You didn't want to listen
You wouldn't take my words
You didn't see me, so you…
Took the chance

Now you're nothing, just a mind
Gave you warning, a second chance
It'a simple story, you can't go back
Ain't nobody, nor a second chance
Isn't anything that can take you back

Just a thought now, in the air
Learn your way now, it's simple fact
Just a mind boy, an entity
Free to go now, just enact your plan
Truly fact now, you're in the black


4/26/1982

PolarBlog V1.6.2 (Fungus Gnat) has been released.  This release fixes a serious comment deletion bug and another minor comment posting bug.

Enhancements

• None

• Deleting a comment deletes all top level comments! This  was being cause by a bug in MySqlDb::stripArray() where nested arrays were not being handled properly.
• The auto-linebreak option on comments does not work.  This has been corrected.

• None

I've just found that a bug fix I made in V1.5.2 (Groundhog)…

"Deleting a single comment destroying all root level comments!  A serious array data mishandling issue in the DB class has been corrected.  Nested arrays are now handled properly."

Has NOT been fixed and appears to still exist!  I know this because I've once again trashed my comments table! :(  So until I can extract it from the backup (probably tomorrow), my comments on most entries will be missing.

Consider this your warning not to delete comments until I get this fixed.  An easy work-around is to edit the offending comment and disable the display option.  Generally this is what I do even with spam comments, but was fixing another comment problem and stumbled upon this while deleting a duplicate comment I created.

I don't have an ETA for fixing this, but I will likely issue a new release to address just this problem once I do fix it.  Sorry.  I hope this hasn't/doesn't hit you too!

Several weeks back I was led to Google's new "Individualized Google".  Actually I don't even know if that's what it's called, but that's the best I can come up with from the "ig".  (Feel free to correct me if you know otherwise.)  Anyhow, I played with it a bit and found the drag and drop aspect of it to be really cool, but beyond that I didn't really have a need.

Then a couple weeks after that I had some more time to revisit it and play with it some more.  And the verdict?  After about a month of use, I'm addicted to the new Google drug!  I haven't yet made the switch there as my homepage, but I'd say it's not that far off.  Currently I use my Links page and also used to use my RSS Feeds page often.  But I've created a lot of FireFox bookmarks that let me quickly navigate/search for things on the sites I visit the most, type addresses in directly or simply Google my way through life.  This has made a portion of my Links page obsolete.  And the contents of my RSS Feeds has largely been integrated into the new "ig" page as you can specify RSS feeds as part of the customization.  This works well, but I have had some problems with RDF feeds not working.  But most of the things I follow regularly do work.  Goodbye RSS Feeds page?  It also has a very nice weather widget and that has largely obsoleted my Weather page also!  But as winter approaches, that will likely get used again because my default zip also pulls in the current radar image for me.

And to further pound another nail into my personal website, yesterday I learned about Google Reader!  I only played with this for a few minutes, but it quite possibly will become my news reader of choice in the future…particularly if they give me a widget on my new homepage.

Hit me again Google, I need another fix!  ;)