June 28th, 200611:38 pm.
Filed under: Cricket Moods.
I just posted a new version of Cricket Moods. This release is a maintenance release with one bug fixed. The plugin will now automatically work out of the box if the WordPress install is located in a subdirectory of the root domain.
If you just installed Cricket Moods and can’t see any of the wonderful similies or are getting an error like the following (emphasis added):
Warning: dir(/home/example/public_html/wp-includes/images/smilies/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/example/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/cricket-moods.php on line 579
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/example/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/cricket-moods.php on line 580
you must change your “Mood image directory” option to reflect the location of your blog. In this case the user would change it to /wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies.
It will not be necessary to change this option with new Cricket Moods 3.1 installs. If you are updating from 3.0 or are still using 3.0, then you will have to change your “Mood image directory” option.
June 26th, 20067:53 pm.
Filed under: Daily Grind, Rants.
“Billy Jean, I’m going to count to ten… no twelve. If you’re not sitting down by then… One… Two… Three… Four… Billy Jean, sweetie, sit down please.” Meanwhile, the child in question is running around screaming “No!” repeatedly at what sounds to be the full force of her lungs.
The preceding re-enactment occurred today in the copy center at which I work and is reproduced here nearly verbatim. Why the mother decides to give her child ten seconds to comply—never mind twelve seconds—boggles my brain. I never received a grace period of more than three seconds from my mother. I generally never misbehaved past one and a half seconds when facing a ruler or fly-swatter poised to strike on the count of “three.” I behaved because I knew that she would follow through with her threat, be it a stinging whack from an implement or a simple privilege reduction. I knew she would do it, because she had never backed down before.
I assume little Billy Jean never listens to her mother because her mother very rarely, if ever, follows through.
