We just, thanks to a very, very kind, persistent, and thorough Wave member, patched a major problem, did some more moving, plastering and painting—and then the webhost advised us they’re doing a major server software upgrade within the next day or the day after—and we are to look for ‘issues.’
WordPress is so big I can’t conceive of them doing anything to screw up a WP installation—they’d be inundated with howling users. The only thing I can say is that both Jane and I, and then Lynn, once she ironed out a disaster at her digs, spent all yesterday doing our own patching and fixing, and we are, I think, grateful that OUR work did not happen to be half-done when they started theirs.
Or as Lynn put it, when she got the notice late last night, when it rains, it pours…
Size doesn’t matter CJ. Look at Ancestry. Their track record recently is to install something and wait for the howls of protest. One of their recent fiascos was to decide, for you, using DOB less than 100 years ago, whether a person was living or dead and then to remove the death date you had entered and replace it with “living”.
Here’s hoping … cross all your fingers and toes. Break out the scotch.
Oh, was THAT where it originated?
Sometimes the Ancestry glitches are totally bizarre.
I wish they’d do some bona fide charts for, say Charlemagne, Lincoln, Geo. Washington, and what-not, based on actual best research, so you could just go to a list and plug them in, IF you accepted it. I wouldn’t want them mandatory, because there are contested descents, eg, in the Boone family, but it’d sure be nice to be able to fill in the part that’s generally accepted and then figure where your info differs. I’ve weeded things out that had one of the Merovingians born in Illinois.
I’m using their Sync feature from FTM 2012 up to the member trees. There are some serious problems with it but I like it and still use it, controlling when I sync and making sure that I know what I changed. There are some horror stories of people with humongous trees having their databases totally screwed up (some didn’t have backups!!). But all-in-all, it saves me having to update 2 sets of databases.
Merovingians a-questing in Illinois? Huh. Now that *would* be a bit far to go….
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But AHA! I tracked down why Firefox was showing me the wrong pages for CC, I think. The answer is devastatingly simple and obvious, and I feel like a dunce.
I hadn’t changed my bookmark, and was accessing from the old /WhereItsAt/ directory. D’oh! — I’d suggest a simple redirect page from /WhereItsAt/index.html send visitors to the parent directory’s index.html page, then remove any old files under the outdated directory, because (I would presume) they have moved to new locations. But please have Jane and Lynn check, as that is an unfounded assumption on my part, no facts to back it up.
This means that yes, the site looks fine for me from all browsers. FF on my desktop was the only one not doing right. I’ll just need to check my bookmarks in other browsers.
I *thought* I was typing in the URL in all cases, but apparently I was being lazy in my main browser. Tsk-tsk-tsk, on sait plus mieux que ça.
Thanks for the suggestion, and already in the plans.
We wanted to wait until we were sure the new site was solid. Lynn’s doing the redirect for the pages this week. The other problem was too important not to take care of ASAP!
Good—thanks, BlueCat—we do need to do that.
Do, everyone, remember to create a new bookmark for CC: we’ve changed the addressing.
I just had a chance to go look. I LIKE it very much and it looks great. Now, can you arrange many more free hours that I can devote to reading? Ha ha! The only question I had was where to find the signed bookplates. I looked around a bit but couldn’t find them.
Oops. Looks like that got dropped. We’ll put it back in.
Thank you!! All this talk of the new book made me think of it. I should order enough for all the Foreigner books that I have. (I read the early ones from the library which reminds me to buy those for my own library.)
Intruder is now on its way to my mailbox. Now I know what I’ll be doing this coming weekend. (and its not the exercise that I should really be lashing myself to do.)
Got the email that my dead tree edition of Intruder has shipped. *does happy dance* I would have opted for ebook due to storage issues, but I have all the others in dead tree editions, so I opted to continue this.
CC looks fine on a Mac (current OS) with Safari (current version).
Question. Are the foreigner books available in Japanese?
I’m thinking of getting the first few volumes for Hiroyuki Yamaga as a gift when I see him next, likely in May.
I don’t know re Japanese. I don’t think so. Downbelow Station and Rimrunners have been translated, that I know of.
For a while, I got excited, as there was supposedly going to be a French translation of Foreigner by some publisher in France, but apparently, that fell through. (The title was to have been rendered, L’Etranger, which happens to be a title of a work by a famous author…uh, whose name at the moment escapes me. Shame on me.) Some while back, I bought French language copies of two of Jules Verne’s classics, thinking that’d give me a good boost towards reviewing my French. — I am just now finally getting back into the habit of reading more. Bad burnout for awhile due to too much in real life interfering past what was until then a major safety/escape valve, reading.)
I’ve barely started on any Japanese. I got intrigued due to anime and manga and basic curiosity about such a complex and different, but somehow similar culture. (The parallels between Japan and England are, to me, interesting.)
Hmm, if Cownbelow Station is available in Japanese, an ebook copy now toward later reading could be very interesting.
I’ll confess, I understand the top-down, right-to-left order, but somehow in scanning panels in what (English translated) manga I’ve seen, I am not yet experienced enough to be sure I’m always tracking which panel follows which in a layout. It’s been good exercise in overcoming what’s expected from native reading habits, though, or understanding other kinds of design layouts. (Sophisticated, too.)
The only nits I can offer are lame, silly ones, but here goes:
In “Belt Miners” -> “Heavy Time”: “SFirst”
In “Physical Books -> Intruder”: “paidi”