Your Net is Broken- Attn: demiurgent

[redneckgaijin]

Eric, it's very good to see that you're posting to Websnark again.

It's even better to see a post about mad scientist music, though.

It's less good that, when I try to plug the Consortium of Genius, my favorite band of all time (and a mad scientist rock band at that), I find myself wholly unable to get a comment posted to the post in question.

I used to have the same problem before: log in, make a post, and then watch the page change format and watch you have to type everything in ALL OVER AGAIN, because WordPress is inherently broken. With patience and a couple of tricks, though, it was possible to make comments without resorting to the foulness that is Internet Explorer.

Not any longer, apparently. Try as I might, my attempts to comment fail repeatedly.

It'd be nice to make Websnark a regular read again, but it's an exercise in frustration to see a "Comment" link that I know won't work for me.

EDIT: And as soon as I hit "Post" on this, the comments thread in question refreshes, and I see the comment I was trying to make up... five times running. Oops. Never mind...

(why not delete this post? Because when I fuck up I believe in wearing the egg I've applied to my own face rather than pretending it was never there)

Comments

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Hey now! Give the server a chance to catch up with all its backlog after its unplanned avoid-Gustaf vacation. Geesh, even mad scientists servers deserve some time off :-)

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Yes, we did ;^}

And thanks for the plug, Dr. Gaijin!

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

I put down money for a hotel by the convention center Saturday night.

Then I saw the forecast tracks for Hurricane Ike.

Which, if it doesn't hit you, hits me.

Fun, fun, I don't think.

But you're most welcome for the plug... and the plug... and the plug... and the plug... and the plug... and that's where I finally stopped posting the same damn message, not realizing it was indeed getting through...

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Clarifying: the hotel is for the 19th. I put money down for it on Saturday night.