The White House has scheduled a dinner next week in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the United States, but one guest will be conspicuously absent from the proceedings: the pope himself.
From Friday’s press briefing:
Q Just to clarify, for the pope’s visit to the White House, you said that now there’s a dinner in the East Room in honor of the pope?
MR. STANZEL: Yes.
Q Will the pope actually be attending that dinner?
MR. STANZEL: I don’t believe so, no.
Q Okay. Thank you.
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Q I’m sorry. The pope doesn’t attend a dinner in his honor?
MR. STANZEL: No.
Q (Off mike.)
MR. STANZEL: He doesn’t come into the building.
Q Well, then it’s not a dinner for the pope, is it?
MR. STANZEL: It’s in honor of his visit. There will be leaders from the Catholic community from all over the country who are in town for that visit.
Q Is there a reason the pope doesn’t attend the dinner?
MR. STANZEL: I don’t know. I don’t have the full extent of his schedule.
I just backup everything and converted all my categories into tags. I figured it’s a upgrade or die thing. I am already pretending to be using tags for a really long time. My URI points to /blog/tags/ but they are actually categories in disguise. I don’t really find categories have useful and it’s quite restrictive in the sense that you keep having to plan out what categories to create, what goes where and stuff. After a while it gets really tiring and blogging becomes less fun.
Today all my categories are gone and they all go into Uncategorized. Eventually when I have the time, I’ll sort the them into categories, but it’s a hard chore so I probably would take a year because I’m really slow in organizing things.
This is not the first time I plan for an overhaul of organization. It’s part of my plan to make things future proof. I believe that tagging would stay for the long run and more and more support is given by the WordPress community.
Now WordPress says “You have 1,767 posts, 15 pages, 10 drafts, contained within 1 category and 346 tags.”
I got really annoyed looking at my TextLink Ads being full of spam. It looks horrible and I am contemplating if I should continue to support them or drop their services. Google ads appears to be better earning too.
Also I wanted to do a redirection from beconfused.com/blog/tags/ into just beconfused.com/tags/. I intend to remove the word ‘blog’ from all URIs and do a permanent redirect.
But before the redirection happen, a new layout will roll out. The new theme aims to future proof //beconfused and continues to decrease reliance on third-party plugins. It probably will roll out on coming Monday. So stay tuned.
Oh man, I just gotten this error message, “Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file filename.” It has almost been 2 hours and I’m still stuck on that screen on my other computer. It annoys and worries me. Microsoft tries to explain vaguely:
The specified file has an invalid security ID. Each file on an NTFS or FAT volume has a security ID assigned it. The ID assigned to the data file does not match the ID assigned to security data stream file ($SDS). There is a mismatch in Ids. Chkdsk is replacing the invalid security ID. No user action required.
I hope my computer will be okay. Not the best time of the day. All I did was to do a restart and I gotten this shit. Quite a few people online are also having a similar error message. Seems like the advice is just to wait. Still I want to know what happen.
We would like to extend our thanks for the continued understanding and patience of all of our customers affected by this incident. In an effort to bring you up to date we would like to share where we stand at this time.
Through internal testing and the continuing evaluation of our systems, (mt) Media Temple has concluded that the recent availability and latency problems of the (gs) Grid-Service product are related to segments of our current storage architecture.
Some time ago, we brought online additional storage resources to alleviate anticipated pressure points. Although we did see some very positive short-term improvements, things did not scale as far as our original projections showed. In order to meet these demands we are currently preparing additional hardware resources, to be completed and in place later today. Over the next few days and weeks, we will be rebalancing the storage load onto these new resources.
We would like all of our customers impacted by this to understand that weâre doing our best to provide a service that in no way exhibits the behavior you are currently seeing. This is our top priority and we are acting accordingly. Whenever possible, weâve been able to minimize the length of time your service has been affected. Unfortunately, this has resulted in the small service interruptions that you have likely experienced during the course of this incident.
This System Status posting will continue to provide timely updates that have meaningful, useful information. Until such time we respectfully ask that any support requests that you have attached to this incident stay open. We promise to provide updates to this System Status blog, and notify any users that have submitted a support request related to these events. These two channels are currently the most effective way we can communicate vital information to our clients.
So no refund? Hahaa…
Media Temple has been hit by numerous issues recently. Things are responding slow. A couple of times I just lose my patience and went to bed. I hope things will be okay soon.
[By the way, I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5. It perks me up looking at the new interface, it's beautiful. I saw many comments complaining about the colors, the interface and the bugs. Perhaps I'm a little more forgiving here. I really love the colors and the interface! Not really loving the bugs though. Still a splendid job by the WordPress dev team. It's a work of art.]
Strip (your CSS) for a good cause. Implementing CSS is not just about design, it also has to degrade nicely should - for some reason - the user agent fail to get your CSS or the full experience of your CSS.
What happened to the design?
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
Well, I don’t have much design to begin with but it sounds interesting, hahaa…
Jimmy Kimmel’s day with Richard Simmons “Don’t be a Piece of Shit” narrated by Sam Elliot, a cameo from Jonah Hill “Superbad”, and let’s not forget Larry King or Jared from Subway fame. This is from Jimmy Kimmel’s 1000th show.