Been awhile

There needs to be a word for when you don’t whistle on the path as much anymore. Not because you don’t have a tune. It’s because you realize the forest has always had an unfair mix of kind and unkind, and when the sun starts setting, the kind ones go into hiding, and the unkind ones do not.

Paths unwinding and winding again.

Sunrise.

Been awhile.

Website tanked – PHP and WordPress update to blame

My site was down because PHP didn’t like the new WordPress 3.2.1.

Long story short, if you get the dreaded “500 internal server error” after the WordPress 3.2.1 upgrade AND you are using 1&1 hosting, here’s what you need to do…

  1. Edit the php.ini file (or create a new one) to MEMORY=128MB (or just bump the number that is there up in increments of 64 MB)
  2. Edit the .htaccess file to force 1&1 to use PHP5 by adding “AddType x-mapp-php5 .php” (thanks TECHNOBLOG)
  3. Upload the changed files and you’re back.

A slight AAAAAAAAAAAAAA is just what I needed to wake me up this morning!

Wait, I have a blog? No way!

Oooohhhh yeah. It was one of those months. (Month and a half actually!) Big, bad, fast, relentless, ugly, and lots of sharp teeth.

I did manage to twitter almost daily, so I didn’t totally vanish off the ‘net.

Anyhow, now that things have calmed down I’m going to see if I can get this site moving again.

And with that….