Dump

It has been a diverse day. Much of the morning was spent looking at BitNami's Wordpress stack, then Wampserver and Wordpress on their own. Niggling little issues kept cropping up that prevented GF from moving his Metablog across to the new machine. First it was BitNami's inability to acknowledge and act upon a change to its config to allow larger files to be imported, then it was the mediocre documentation that made it difficult to pull apart and correct. That was it - GF removed it and downloaded Wampserver. This installed perfectly (but then so did BitNami) and was working just fine until GF followed the advice to set the root password for the MySQL database - at that point everything became difficult again.

He went out to the garage to get the ladders - they may not help with phpmyadmin but they would help him reach the outside lights which needed new bulbs (and this, of course means the new low energy bulbs which give off the same amount of light as a comatose glow-worm - but hey we are making the politicians and the eco-mentals happy). Living by the sea means that everything corrodes easily. This meant that only one of the three lights was accessible - the other two were corroded shut. The Gorse Fox found that a crow-bar acted adequately as a key as he levered them from the wall and went out to buy replacements!

The usual episodes of dropping things, of loose connectors, and general cack-handedness followed but despite all adversity the Gorse Fox now has three working lights.

Meanwhile, the Silver Vixen was sorting out various boxes and who-knows-what in the garage. The Gorse Fox went to lend a hand and ended up with a trip to the local dump civic re-cycling amenity.

A good curry inside him, he is now making the most of "Strictly Come Dancing" - by not watching it!