Greetings People ~
It’s been a little dry up in my brain. I have lots o’stuff going on, but nothing I think is worthy of a entire post (unless it’s to hear me whine about stress or hear me prattle on about my new car stereo – which is freakin’ awesome…. all my speakers now work! ALL OF THEM! It’s crappy to have to listen to everything through one speaker in the back on the passenger side of the car…but those days are done for the moment).
However, I’m a bit miffed – I’ve been visiting blogs and commenting my little heart out – but have had nary a notification. I (SQL) queried my friends via Facebook:
SELECT * FROM db.FacebookNerds
WHERE Friend = ‘blogger’
AND
WHERE Place = ‘wordpress’
(ok – you got me – I didn’t do that – I just posted some words – but I’m working on my ‘clever’ today – and all you real SQL nerds do not need to tell me where I’ve made a mistake in my query structure…)
Anywhoo- my ever alert friends, Eric & Amy informed me that I have not been rejected by the blogging masses, but that WordPress is having some intestinal distress and notifications are not so marvy… I don’t even know if people will get an email notification of this great & fabulous post.
I’m not even certain if people are getting notification that I’ve been to their site – so if not – know I have, except for yours, I’m giving it up for practice-lent.
Well, I’ll be back shortly – I’m waiting for things to slow down so I can string together some words…
I seriously hope I do not have to resort to talking about ‘twerking’ – or any media robots that are twerking…
But I will leave you with a Cramps song which may or may not make you happy. Shake that thang and I’ll buy you a diamond ring…
Bonus points if you can name the song from which my title comes from and I changed the colors because I made a mistake…
ADDENDUM! ADDENDUM! If you go to a WordPress blog to comment, do you see 3 lines that are probably autofilled with your email, username & blog URL? If so – to the right of that click on the little WordPress circle icon…that should ‘log you in’ as a Worpress user and then notifications to your posts should come in. At least that’s my theory. And so far, so good!
Callin’ all cows down on the farm!
Hey! Shut the door…you born in a barn?!
I ain’t no farmer…that’s no fun.
Run some tractor till the work’s all done.
Hey milk it bossie
I’ll buy ya a diamon ring.
Now good girls can’t play the rent these days.
These cornfed dames done found a way.
Unzip that zipper…snap that snap.
Round up the cattle in the Cadillac.
Whip that cream baby ’til the butter comes.
Shake it baby shake it baby shake it baby shake it
Shake that thing I’ll buy ya a diamond ring.
Now there’s more things in Tennessee.
Than’s a dreamed of in your philosophy.
Gimme a barnful of cornfed dames.
They wiggle a little I burst into flames.
Whip that cream baby til the butter comes.
Callin’ all you cornfed dames.
Lux means bucks…remember the name.
Go put on some n’real loud.
Let’s get up and go get plowed.
Shake that thing I might buy you a diamond ring.
Go put on the purple one with the plumes at the hip.
Put it on upside down baby.
You know that really makes me flip. …I ain’t no farmer.
SQL? Really? What is this, some kind of nerdy thing happening? Actually, strangely, I’ve been writing C code on mine, so maybe we’re all having a nerdy moment.
I hadn’t noticed any issues with notifications. But, I suppose, when you get close to zero, you don’t see it becoming actually zero…
Ok – yes SQL really – but more as a joke than anything actually fancy…that’s the extent of my SQL knowledge anymore. Nerdy moment, nerdy existance….
They cleared up with the login – which was grand.
hee hee – keep going, it will climb!
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Is it from Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa? And if these are bonus points; do we get the standard points just for reading your post?
YAY! That’s IT! BONUS POINTS! BONUS POINTS! – I’ll give you extra points for the Zappa knowledge and other points for general post reading….
300 points to you!
Excellent; are there any honesty points on offer for mentioning that I did read ALL the comments before posting my own…?
Hee hee – we’ll pretend you knew it was Zappa from the get go…
You’ve a heart of gold, and I suspect a record collection to die for!
Hee hee – quite possibly…Although a lot of it is from my husband who turned me on to a lot of good music.
You’ve still got to listen and like it!
Yup – and I can be quite stubborn about listening to music.
Then your husband must know a good thing when he hears it.
Yes – for the most part.
I’ve had the same problem, but with that tip I hope all will be solved… I want to know what people reply :(.
But there’s hope since Christy from Running on Sober gave me your tip :).
Yea for CHRISTY! It’s been driving me crazy, but seems to be resolved (except for my stats taking a nose dive but my ‘joiners’ going way up…SPAMBOTS!)
Hey, I just got the nofitication of your reply!! I’m so happy :D.
Yay!
Yay! Glad you both fixed the internet. Don’t break it again, please. 😉
I used to get people in the library (this is in 1998) that would tell me the the ‘internets were slow’ and could I ‘fix it’….um…well, no…
Yeah, sorry, I won’t drop it again… Promised!
No! Not the twerking! You are not safe from that no matter where you are in the world. I was up early that morning, guess what I happened to see on TV live? LIVE, Denise!
I was on TV???? WHOO HOO! Was I twerking?
Awesome tip about the logging in with the little WP icon, that had been bugging me for days!
I noticed my views dropped by about 60% for two weeks in August, that was kinda scary 😦 All back to normal with week though, no idea what caused it!
Looking forward to the twerking video…
Rohan.
Hee hee – I shall not be twerking via video or anything else.
I too have had low counts – maybe bloggers don’t like August.
I heard some people were down 90%! There was a rumor of a change to Google’s search algorithms, I really don’t know though, perhaps you are right 🙂
Aww…no Mercenary Miley? Lol 😉
Rohan.
Nope – she can twerk away – I shan’t be caring.
As a word nerd though, you have to admit it’s kind of a cool one; twerk, it’s fun to say! (if not perform)
Rohan.
Hee hee – yup. I really don’t care if anyone wants to shake their thang – If people don’t like it; don’t watch it. But there’s an awful lot of conversation over it. It seems to have hit a chord and surprised everyone – all over again – just like they always get surprised when something untoward happens.
Just say no to twerking posts. Thank you Ruta!
Exactly
Denise, I try to pay attentlon!! You know, I do my best. This has been a little problem for me for ions now. I don’t think you remember my post: http://thebumblefiles.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/my-startling-discovery-about-those-pesky-comments/
Remember this? That’s how long this has been a nuisance for me! I hope you figured it out!! I hope so.
I now remember that (because I re-read it). I normally know the comment has ‘taken’ b/c i see it on their site after my page has refreshed. The the arrow off of notifications – I’ve assumed it meant that I relied.
Yes, that arrow!! But…that has proven to not be an actual notification for others when I followed up. I gave up on this at some point. If I want to see if someone replied, I usually just return to the post. I find usually people respond. People are cool like that on WordPress.
Totally
What a great & fabulous post!
Yeah, I’m with TD – I saw the title and thought Airplane too.
Digging The Cramps. Sort of post-apocalyptic surfer music…
Love the Cramps – psychobilly!
And thank you – I love great & fabulous!
Joe’s Garage – the Central Scrutinizer (but it’s the WHITE zone)
ignore that – go to this
7:02 in
Am I the only person who had to look up the definition of twerking? Am I showing my age or is a new word?
Um… both! I had to look it up too b/c I’m not inclined to care about anyone shaking their thang on MTV.
Nope! Except that I still haven’t…..
hee hee – not missing much.
Oh my notifications are playing up too! I was thinking people had forgotten me, so it’s actually a relief to hear that it’s a glitch. Phew, I’m still cool!
You’re wicked cool!
No you are! Notifications officially triggering!
No- WE ARE!
We should start a cool club. The girls at school had those when I was young. But I never made the cut. I was a little too weird. And also too busy climbing trees and playing on the oval with the boys to sit still for a club meeting 😉
We could be a club of spazzy tom-boy girls. The meetings would be two minutes or conducted on a swing set or see-saw…or revolving doors.
Ooooh revolving doors! You’re speaking my language!
But with an America accent.
Hiii, I think it’s been deadsville in blogland these days. See that tumbleweed?
I thought we were gonna be talkin’ about periods. Huh.
We can talk about them all you want! I hate them and only like them b/c I can celebrate another “no baby” month – but other than that – they suck tampons.
Is your title from a song? I recognized it from the movie Airplane…
It’s also from a song – but it’s also from Air Plane too – I had forgotten that… you get bonus points anyway…
Woohoo!!
So you got a notification that I replied to your comment?
Yup!
Well crap.
Don’t you want the notifications to work?
I do – and now they do!