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Sunday, January 11, 2009
“Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. treppenwitz reader, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press!” *
I want to thank those of you who were nice enough to ping me back this morning from all over the world letting me know if my site was loading properly. While very helpful (and good for my ego!) I'm not out of the woods yet... not by a long shot. But here's what I know at this point:
Up until yesterday there were four ways to access this site:
As of this morning, anyone who had #3 or #4 bookmarked or blogrolled either got a '404 Page Not Found' message or my page displaying without any graphic formatting.
Unfortunately, much as I would love to blame someone else, the truth is that in my desire to make things a little more user-friendly and flashy around here I seem to have completely screwed things up.
Here's how the train went off the tracks:
[Note: The following may be of passing interested (at least for a laugh) to technically inclined folks. And should serve as a cautionary tale to Luddites like me]
At some point my web host (typepad) started offering something called 'domain mapping'. As I understand it, this would allow me to have my domain name (treppenwitz.com) display in the address bar along with the sub pages, instead of the unwieldy 'bogieworks' URL. Sadly, being the technodolt that I am, I tried to do it myself instead of begging one of my tech-savvy friends to help me out.
Take a lesson people; pride goeth before a fall crash!
Apparently, I now know that I should have turned off the domain forwarding over at Register.com before changing the CNAME record (anyone's eyes glazing over yet?), and then I should have waited 24-72 hours to allow the change to propagate around the web before activating the typepad domain mapping.
[insert your favorite facepalm or 'fail' picture... this is my personal fave]
If I had done it correctly the net result would have been a much more logical (and easy to remember) URL experience for people coming to my site. Instead I think the lights may have flickered over in Silicon Valley as my sheer stupidity challenged the electrical grid out there.
Please stand by while this resolves itself. Or not.
* Without googling it, is anyone out there old enough to know what the title of today's post is paraphrasing?
Posted by David Bogner on January 11, 2009 | Permalink
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walter winchell
Posted by: lynne | Jan 11, 2009 3:54:23 PM
I too, have facepalm from this very thing. I am a Luddite, as well.
Posted by: Jewel | Jan 11, 2009 5:26:15 PM
rat a tat tat a tat tat
Posted by: Mickysolo | Jan 11, 2009 6:06:28 PM
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: mochassid | Jan 11, 2009 7:05:17 PM
No worreez hoomin, next tiem u callz, teknishun cat comz to de rescyoo.
Posted by: a. | Jan 11, 2009 9:24:33 PM
I was wondering what happened. I attempted to visit in order to catch up, and got the lovely 404. It'll resolve itself soon enough.
Posted by: Amanda | Jan 11, 2009 10:35:18 PM
That title sounds like an Edward R. Murrow intro, but that's a wild guess.
Posted by: Bob | Jan 12, 2009 12:20:03 AM
Hi, I tried to post on the applicable thread and it didn't go through (probably problems on my end)
what do you think we can do to get the israelis to publicize the information that they send jordanian and egyptian blood b/c the palestinians won't accept jewish blood?
I think that is important info to get out and will make an impression in the US
esp for those who don't follow the situation except when the airwaves are full of the latest war in the Middle east, it will give a very clear picture of what's going on
also it will pressure the "enlightened" antiIsrael proHamas faction to explain why they side with racists against those who ignore the racism to treat the sick
how can we get israel to publicize this more?
thanks
Posted by: sa | Jan 12, 2009 12:25:35 AM
hi there,
receiving you 'loud and clear' from windy wet Scotland......saw you interviewed about a week ago on Sky news and bookmarked you - wonderful blog, thank you!
Thanks for the information about the Sky photos in the waiting area.....sheesh....
stay safe
a fellow Luddite :)
Posted by: weemidden | Jan 12, 2009 1:10:57 AM
Not old enough to remember the man (he said with a straight face) but I've heard stories from those OLD folks.....
Winchell???????
Posted by: Ziggy | Jan 12, 2009 5:26:38 AM
Walter Winchell, the old fraud. Nice to see at least one Israel website was not hacked by the enemy. Only the "enemy within." ;-)
Posted by: Dick Stanley | Jan 12, 2009 7:39:04 AM
