Looking like the Friday Eyrie post is gonna be a little late, I fear. I was texting with a good friend of mine just now, and we got to talking about how bad girls are the only kind worth having, so I suggested that he and his wife Holli—DEFINITELY a bad girl, one of the best I know—ought to read my old Tough Chicks post, linked in the Greatest Hits section above. I clicked over to it myself, just to make sure it was still there and that the code wasn’t corrupted all to hell and gone, when what to my wondering eyes did appear but an unexpected mystery-glitch: the main text is in red all of a sudden, for no good reason I can see.
Went through all the other Menu Bar links and sure enough, every damned one of them is the same. So I’m trying to suss out what the devil might have brought on this sudden red-shift; I know for a fact it wasn’t that way a week or so ago when I made another addition to the Mike’s Iron Laws page, but damned if even that one ain’t all in red now too. Weird, weird, weird. So instead of completing the Eyrie post, I’m gonna spend the next cpl-three hours trying to chase down just what exactly might be going on with that, and correcting it.
Apologies for the Eyrie delay, but this is exactly the sort of thing that can keep me awake all night, lying there staring at the ceiling trying to figure it out. If you happen to click one of those Menu Bar page links and it looks different to you, be sure to let me in the comments, ‘kay? Back in a bit…
Update! PHEW! Fixed it, although I’m not quite sure how I did it, what the problem was, or why it popped up out of the blue like this. After Viewing Source in my preferred browser and closely inspecting the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mess the WP-functions script makes of the “head” HTML for an “a href” tag inadvertently left open or something—my prime initial suspect, since I have active-link text set up in the stylesheet to display in red—I dumped a few lines of superfluous-looking code from the “Give till it hurts” area, inside the “body” tag of the Single Page template, and hey, presto! All is back to normal and copacetic, near as I can make out. Probably tomorrow for the Eyrie, or perhaps early-early in the mawnin’.
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Maybe you already fixed it, but when I open the “Tough Chicks” in a new tab it ain’t red.
The iron laws has the law in red, but not the rest of the text.
Kipling is normal.
A Season(Summer) in hell looks normal also.
The Iron Laws are actually supposed to be red, since all active-link text is; visited links should be in a lighter blue. And yeah, I did seemingly get it fixed, although I confess I remain completely mystified as to what the problem was. Very strange, and kinda scary in a way. Hopefully, it isn’t a harbinger of some malicious fool breaking in and dicking around with things I’d really rather not be dicked around with. I can’t think of any other explanation for why things had been fine before, and then all of a sudden, they weren’t.
It’s a dang computer. From this morning around 7am until just after noon today I was online trying to sort out a mystery machine problem, PC related, for a customer located far away. It’s working now, but I have no idea why it failed.
Heh. It’s the deus ex machina, messing with our heads.
Heh, I’ve a few of those, thank the gods.
Sometimes you just want to go all Office Space on the damn machines!