I haven't been blogging very much for the last couple of years. But lately I think I'd like to ease back into it. Maybe get up to a few posts per month.To that end, I wanted to clean up the back-end of the site. The front end -- the part that you see -- may be minimalist and relatively clean, but the back end is a mess. Windypundit has been in operation for over 20 years, … [Read more...] about Renovations
Operations
Still Here
Some of you may have noticed alarming messages on my site saying that my account has been suspended! Or maybe you saw "Bad Gateway" errors and broken links. It's nothing to worry about.I run the web server that hosts this site, so the only one who can suspend me is me. Actually, it's a virtual private server (VPS) that InMotion Hosting has running in the cloud somewhere, … [Read more...] about Still Here
How To Save Yourself From the New WordPress Editor
Oh my God, I ran automated updates on the blog Friday afternoon without realizing that it was also going to update Wordpress to version 5.0. So when I started to write a post that evening, I was met with this monstrosity:Wordpress has been threatening us with their new Gutenberg editor for months now, and I guess it's finally arrived, despite the fact that the trial … [Read more...] about How To Save Yourself From the New WordPress Editor
Building My New PC
When I first started buying computers, they got so much better every year that a seven year old computer like mine would have been completely unable to run software designed for the newest computers. The pace of advancement is slower these days, however, so even though it's several generations out of date, my computer was still pretty usable from a performance perspective with … [Read more...] about Building My New PC
Headway Themes, WTF?
It all began to go wrong when I started writing a post for Maggie's Friday the 13th call for support, about how the sex work community on Twitter was responding to the one-two punch of FOSTA/SESTA and the Backpage raid. The post needed a lot embedded tweets from sex workers, and while I was reviewing the post I noticed something odd: My blog was not displaying the tweets … [Read more...] about Headway Themes, WTF?