Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
…was apparnetly caused by too many concurrent MySQL connections. As usual, nothing had changed. And we were doing so well lately!
In any case, I did notice that the Google Feedreader blog decided to reprint “But is it art?” and boost my subscribers by 30% in one day. 😛 Maybe that had some effect.
Anyway, there seem to be a few lingering effects which I am working on fixing now. And I will get a Sunday Poem up before bed!
So both my kids are, as I have mentioned before, hooked on Viva Pinata. I just gave them XBox Live Silver accounts (the free ones) so they could send pinatas back and forth, and configured the family settings so that they could only be seen by friends. Then they friended one another. But when they go to the Post Office, they cannot see anyone at all in their friends list — the only person they can send crates to is themselves. They can’t even send one to me! Anyone know whether there’s specific Family Settings required for sending crates? I searched around on the Net, with no luck, and the manual is no help either…
As many of you have noticed, the site is periodically (as in, multiple times a day!) becoming unavailable with an “account suspended” message. So here’s the status:
A while back, apparently, my host put a tighter CPU limit on me because the site was getting so popular it was affecting other sites on the same server. You would not be alone in thinking this an odd way to handle the situation: “Hmm, this site is pushing at the limits of its allotment. So let’s decrease it.” They of course neglected to tell me that they did this. In fact, they neglected to even note it in my account, so all subsequent support folks have been baffled. Kudos to support guy Jamie for working to figure out the problem. Unfortunately, it’s still not fixed.
Apologies for their disappearance — turns out it’s a changed behavior in WordPress 2.1, changing the “more” tag to affect feeds as well as the front page.
I installed this fix and it seems to be correct now.
The feed appears to be fixed (thanks, Mox!).
However, I’m still maxing out the CPU regularly even with WP-Cache — just writing a comment can trigger this, and I don’t know why. If you see “Account suspended” when you visit here, that’s why.
Next steps are going to involve turning off some of the dynamic stuff on the sidebars…
