Jan 20 2009
What Do You Do With This?
I haven’t been writing on today.com for long so they’re still seeing how this is gonna’ workout. But I did get some acknowledgement that Stuff123 has got promise because they said I could apply for a second blog. I gave them all kinds of grief in a bunch of emails asking what is that I have to do so you can up the ante. I just wanted some targets to work toward and I could measure if I was achieving those targets and adjust my strategy accordingly.
Well, for now, its the second blog. It is their playground so I have to play by their rules or otherwise they’ll take the ball and go home. So I named it Stuff456 in the application and it will use the same look and feel as Stuff123. Got approval really quickly on a Saturday, too.
There will be some repeating in the categories but I plan to add some different ones like KidsStuff and StuffWeGet among many, many others. So maybe there will be a Stuff789.
But here’s where the problem lies. I write the first post and since this is a new blog, there are no categories. So I go into edit categories and select add new and type the new category name and hit enter and this comes up.
Warning: Attempt to assign property of non-object in /import/data/mains/t/today.com/wpmu/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 52
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /import/data/mains/t/today.com/wpmu/wp-admin/includes/template.php:52) in /import/data/mains/t/today.com/wpmu/wp-includes/classes.php on line 737
Who writes this stuff? Writing is about painting pictures with words. Use the wrong colours and all you do is create mud. This one is a landslide about to take over Peru.
It won’t go away because I don’t know how to make it go away. The software writers give you no understandable idea of what is going south. And they will argue sure it does, it’s write there in line 52 and line 737. Well guess what, I don’t have a line52 or a line 737 so I don’t know what the @#$% you are talking about. It will make you crazy.
The real lesson here is when you write anything make it so that even I can understand it. If you can write it in such a way that an 8 year old can understand it, then you have written something worthwhile. Otherwise, it’s just more stuff for the family pets to mess up.
So the email to customer support will be entitled “Help” and the content will be a link to this story.
I hate boxes. The corners make it so you can’t find a comfortable resting position and the the flaps are designed to keep you from going outside the space within.
I guess I’ll have to work on a workaround if it doesn’t get solved.
And the workaround is to copy the stories and paste them into the editor in Stuff123. It does result in the loss of the link to the original stories. They are in effect, brand new stories to the Internet. It is difficult for customer support to understand the problem because they are not sitting in front of your computer and seeing the problem. They see a different screen.
I think I caused the problem by deleting the initial story in the second blog and thus removed all categories. I will now advise them to delete Stuff456. I’m still scratching my head as to why it would be required with the approach I have taken to Stuff123.
So Stuff456 is dead after 4 days but lives on in Stuff123.
