Twitter: NewtonTips is pretty cool
Check it out – courtesy of Thomas Brand, the same guy who does the amazing “My Newton Blog” (which I’ve heaped praise on before).
A neat daily “Newton Fact” twit-thingy.
Posts matching “thomas brand”.
Blogging as a Newton.
Holy moly.
There’s a blog I just found, called simply “My Newton Blog,” that’s shaped like a Newton.
Shaped. Like. A. Newton.
The only part I can’t figure out is how to scroll down through the individual blogs. Going from blog to blog is easy. But reading a blog that’s continued past the viewing point is beyond me.
Thomas Brand, the blog’s author, asks a great question – about the need for a walk-through for modern Newton users like me – and maybe that’s something I can get to. A step-by-step process for getting a MessagePad up and running, from purchase to everyday GTD.
I’ll contact Thomas and learn more.
What’s the story?
At about 10 p.m. Monday evening, I logged on to my WordPress admin to set up a new post. That’s when the trouble started.
The site started acting funny, with the homepage (newtonpoetry.com) showing up fine, but all of the links sporking into some database error.
Since then, I’ve re-installed a backup copy of the site, tried messing around with the database and wp-config files, all to no avail. Today, the site has popped back online – only to disappear in a cloud of MySQL smoke.
Tomorrow I’ll call my hosting company and see if there’s anything they can help with. Until then, hang tight, and hope for the best.
And if you have any experience with WordPress.org installs and database errors like this, please drop me a line (newtonpoetry at gmail). At this point, I’d love any help.
UPDATE: Turns out the servers over at 1and1.com are down. Well, maybe not servers – just the server I’m sitting on. Lucky me!
UPDATE 2: All fixed up now. But some of my images are missing. Time to dig into the backup…
[Thanks to Ken for the pep talk, and to David and Thomas for the offers.]