Nov

Pinoy Tux Weblog Update

Rai

There are a couple of things that happened to my PinoyTux blog that I was not aware of.

The first one is my blog has been behaving in a manner that I do not want to be and I am not sure how long this has been going on. I only found out about this when I created my post for this month which is about the latest release of Fedora 8. After I did my first post, my article disappeared after I clicked the Publish icon. At first I thought that my session has timed out because I have this habit of doing the article straight to WP which is not advisable. I ought to make the first draft in a word processor (OpenOffice.Org Writer is a good choice here) but being stubborn that I am, I wrote the whole article straight in WP only to be vanquished by some unknown bug. I am not really sure what is going on so I tried again, doing the article in WP – again. Sounds like I have not learned my lesson, right? I clicked Save and Continue Editing button, then Boom! Out goes nowhere my post went. And not only that. Comments does not get in. I mean they also go to nowhere. There might be something that sends everything I put in to I-Dont-Know-Where-It-Went land.

WTH!?

So I decided to re-write the whole thing again, in WP – again but this time I saved a copy in my Gmail account. I clicked Save and Continue Editing button, and guess what happened? Nothing. As in into nothing my article went – again. I am not really sure what happened but I tried repairing and optimizing my databases to make sure that the tables are in order. I tried changing the theme so I can check if messed up the theme with all the ads that is going on. But the damn article still disappears every time I click either of the three buttons available. Googling did not helped either because I am not sure what to look for in the first place. I tried several keywords but none of the results matched to what I am having at that point. Impatient is one of my nastiest characteristics so I downloaded the newest version of WP, backed up everything, reinstalled WP and did some touch-ups. That resolved the problem. Until now I am not sure what is the culprit which I think is critical because once I know what is the underlying cause, I can prevent it in the future. But until then, the only prevention I have in mind is to keep posting every day so I can check if my articles get published

The other thing that I am not aware is really not a big deal but it makes me happy anyway. I found out that when I use the keywords “Filipino linux blogs” in Google, guess who is in number 1 spot? Weee….

I am not an SEO specialist and I do not know what I have done to deserve this, not that I am complaining, but it is nice to see my blog coming up to that spot where I do not have to scroll down or turn to page 2. See, I am not so hard to please