Just when you thought the brindled puppies couldn’t get any cuter than Bowser, here comes the 5-month-old Jax to give him a run for his money.
If there’s a ‘dog ergonomics’ textbook, I bet that’s not an approved position.
I think Jax’s ears are just a tiny bit more ridiculous than Bowser’s.
I found myself in great need of kittens this morning. Fortunately, I still have a few left.
The site is back to working again! It turns out to have been a corrupted database, which nobody thought of at all. I was looking at the performance problems (which are a separate issue) and thought maybe rebuilding the database would help, and lo and behold, there were errors. Once they were auto-repaired, things started working again. However, two chunks of data were deleted from my database, and I have no idea what they were, so if you see the site doing anything strange, please let me know.
Well, when I say it’s fixed… it’s fixed except for that pesky performance issue, which we still have no clues about. My hosting provider, Hurricane Electric, has helped me out a lot in setting up a caching plugin, and I’d like a little feedback from my readers, if possible. When you loaded DoSF today, do you have a good feel for how long it took? Was it a second or two, or was it closer to ten seconds? (If you can’t remember, try reloading later on today, or tomorrow, or whenever you next visit the site. If you reload right now, it will almost certainly be very fast.) If you have a chance, please do leave a response in the comments.
And now, with no further ado, two kittens!
If that’s not the most ridiculous sleeping position I’ve ever seen, it’s certainly in the top ten.
Argh! I have seen this pup twice now, once just this morning… and I’ve forgotten his name! I know he’s a boy, and is ten years old, and is ridiculously fluffy and adorable, though.
He wanted to make one thing perfectly clear.
I wish I’d gotten this from just a foot further to the left. I could have gotten a perfect ‘giant head with stubby little legs’ effect going.
He sure has the classic corgi happy face.
I’m not sure I believe the mix, but the woman who had him seemed quite earnest, so I guess I’ll take her at her word. I must, say, though, that OH MY GOD CUTE!
Bowser caused a brain meltdown in at least five people in just the 30 seconds or so that I was standing near him.
I bet this guy lasted about … eight seconds in the shelter. Maybe nine, if they were closed.
Full frame nose shot! Yay!
Just spent another two hours trying to debug WordPress. It’s fun, reading computer code you don’t understand, written in a language you don’t know, which is being run in an order you can’t identify.
So have a corgi butt. This is Tidus again, who I see very often in the morning on the way to work, and of whom I will never tire. He has a perfect corgi-butt, which shakes back and forth in a perfect corgi-waddle.
Those tocks! Those drumsticks!
Still troubleshooting. And there’s still trouble to shoot.
Baxter is Tibetan terrier number two on here. Move over, Cici, you’ll have to share the limelight!
Every time I go down to Fillmore Street during the day, I meet at least one unusual breed.
They’re usually pretty friendly, too.
Happy face!
I’m getting some help figuring out what’s going wrong. Test posts are fun, right?
Blue corgi test post alert!
Found these two interacting in Washington Square Park. They seemed to be having fun. Simba’s mom got him as an ‘unknown breed’ adoption, but someone who saw him said he might be a plott hound, and she looked online and said he looked just like them. I think I agree… if he’s not one, he’s an amazing lookalike.
WordPress is still misbehaving. I’m still working on it. Nothing new to report, except that the amount of time I’ve wasted messing around with it now exceeds 8 hours.
Apparently plott hounds were originally bred for hunting boar. Takes a heck of a dog: boar are nasty beasts.
Two very distinctive colorations.
Gooooooofball.
Look at the perfect tail-curl there.
And yes, that’s Autumn administering some therapeutic touch.
Still working with WordPress. They’re helping me troubleshoot, which I guess I shouldn’t be too snarky about seeing as I don’t exactly pay them for this product.
Still, I have to say, as a software engineer who works in the software testing department, the problems I’ve had with WordPress (the vast majority of which I don’t bother to post about on here) do not fill me with confidence at the state of software development. When I went hunting for blog software to host my blog on, I only had a few criteria:
What did I find? I found that I could get the first one, and the second one. That there was no way to get the third one on any blog platform (at the time, at least, and last I checked last year it still was impossible), unless I was willing to write my own iPhone client. That there was no way to get the fourth one (at the time, at least), unless I was willing to write my own plugin, but that WordPress at least let you schedule posts in advance, which was sort of close to what I wanted, but not close enough that I was happy with it. And that every single blog platform of any size was written in PHP. (And that I have had to venture into using it a couple of times to fix problems that were otherwise not solvable. And I still feel dirty.)
I don’t know if anyone cares, but I might as well explain why the scheduling thing isn’t as close to what I want as it sounds like it should be. The original idea of this blog was that I’d write a post every day, for that day. It would include observations and events and such for that day. And if I skipped a day, either by mistake or on purpose, then I’d have a few posts queued up and one would automatically post, and it wouldn’t be topical for that day but that’s okay occasionally. If I wanted to do this on WordPress, I would have to queue up four posts, set them up to post tomorrow, the next day, and the two days after that, and then every day that I made a post, at the same time as I made the post, I would have to go in and reschedule the one that was supposed to post tomorrow for five days from now. It’s highly error-prone, and inconvenient, and I knew I’d never be able to remember to do it reliably. The more reasonable approach would be to just queue up posts four days in advance… but then I don’t get the ‘current events’ part of my idea, because everything would be four days out of date.
This seems like an utter no-brainer for a daily blog, but nobody else seems to have thought of it but me. And yes, I am a programmer, but as I said, I refuse to learn enough about PHP and WordPress programming to implement something like that. There are enough languages that I have been exposed to that did not wake a sudden urgent sense of loathing, I am not going to venture into learning the ones that do.
And now, of course, my workaround of at least scheduling posts one day in advance has stopped working. (And so has my twitter link, and so has my automated twitter posting setup, and so has quite a lot of other stuff, really.) I guess there’s a reason ‘FYWP’ is a well-known acronym…