Ok so this is long over do, I know, but this past week has been hell for the WordPress servers for some reason at Weblogs.us so everyone’s blog has been up and down for the last week. Reliability has to be at about 70% right now. Every time I’ve meant to post something suddenly the blog is down. As I outlined in a quick blog which should have gone out at 1:00 AM today (It didn’t but I edited the time stamp and released it later today), Apache is crashing allot due to what we believe is an improperly coded WordPress plug-in which a Weblogs.us member is using. To help alive the situation I’ve disabled all of my plug-ins other than Bad Behavior to block spam. This means that my blog will be broken until the servers can handle the burden someone is placing on them.
We had a track meet last Wednesday, which was originally scheduled for yesterday but due to forecasted storms, which did take place, the meet was moved up a day. Wednesday was dry, for a spring day, and windy. The entire back straightaway of the track was at times directly into the wind, which made running more difficult than it usually is. Adding to the wind was the absence of uniform tops, since they didn’t arrive until today we had to run in t-shirts which was just great since we didn’t really look like a team with twenty or more different t-shirt designs. I accidentally left my nalgene bottle at my second block class, which left me waterless for the races, which really hampered my performance, but it was the first meet so all is good.
I promise once the new Weblogs.us front page/website design is finished and implemented then I will post a new issue to the critique of Myspace profiles, the new name for the series will be launched at that time. ETA for this event is the second Friday in May. It would be the first Friday, but I’ll be out of town that weekend.
-John Havlik
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All WordPress users hosted by Weblogs.us should disable all plug-ins that have been installed within the last two weeks. Plug-ins such as Akismet, an anti-spam plug-in, or AWStats are known to be buggy and end up crashing Apache on Weblogs.us’ WordPress server. Please cooperate in order to better everyone’s blogging experience. JD is taking a ‘semi-vacation’ this weekend and it will make it much more difficult for him to fix any issues that arise. So please pardon the outages as the new servers are on their way, three of them according to JD on the forums.
-John Havlik
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For a full 48 hours, while somewhere on earth it’s April 5th this blog will be separated from its lovely CSS file. This is about standards, not retarded Digg users, along with some ignorant Newsvine users. This day is to educate those web developers that don’t write code to conform to standards, which is a bad thing. Don’t even think about starting an AJAX/Web 2.0 project if you don’t plan on using web standards, otherwise bad things will happen.
Here is the link: CSS Naked Day
-John Havlik
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Tomorrow this site will not look the same as it usually does. In participating in CSS Naked Day I will be removing my CSS file to demonstrate how this site conforms to xHtml 1.1 standards and degrades gracefully due to standards compliance. Well it seems the leader of this has jumped the gun, or is in Europe, because it isn’t the fifth yet here in the USA.
Our track meet scheduled for Thursday has been rescheduled for tomorrow, to avoid expected foul weather. This is just great since we had a hard workout on Monday and we won’t be fully recovered on Wednesday. It really doesn’t matter as it is the first meet of the season.
-John Havlik
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Spreading awareness of web standards is the goal of CSS Naked Day, a day in which webmasters and bloggers remove all CSS styling from their website and blogs, leaving the xHtml ‘naked’. In his blog Dustin Diaz announced that he wants April 5, 2006, that’s this Wednesday, to be the first annual CSS naked day.
That’s right, I’m starting the first annual CSS Naked Day. In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structures, April 5th will be a day of nakedness for all webmasters to remove their style sheets from their website for one day. Signing up is not required, just simply comment in this thread with a link to your website and let everyone else know that you’re participating.
Over at Digg some people are having hard times reading the actual article, so I quoted Dustin’s first paragraph.
Dustin is recommending that anyone who participates includes some html that he wrote that explains the disappearance of styling and a link to the CSS naked page.
I will be participating, will you?
Here is the link: Dustin Diaz’s Article
-John Havlik
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