Matty's weblog of doom

Got ?Ǭ†a new necklace today. Pretty cool.

The following is an edited (for easier reading) conversation I had with Stuart:

Matt:

hm ok… opening now. hmm its doublewrapped. opening second wrap. OH MY GOD THERE’S A PACKET OF SMARTIES TOO OMGOGMOGMG!! now THATS customer service! oh its actually triple wrapped. OMFG!

Stuart:

rofl

Matt:

IT COMES WITH A BUTTON TOO!! its actually quadruple wrappeed

Stuart:

you got a packet of smarties

Matt:

lies. quintiple wrapped

Stuart:

what is this ?Ǭ†pass the parcel

Matt:

and i get a little jewelry bag

haha

Stuart:

did it come with a necklace or not

Matt:

yes it did

Stuart:

nice

Matt:

nice. its bigger than i thought it’d be

THATS WHAT SHE SAID

So today’s tute was just getting our exams back and seeing what the scores were. The lecturer was all like, “Yeah most people scored pretty badly in this exam”. I thought to myself, “Meh, I can’t change it anyway,” so I skipped class and got subway instead.

On the way to my next class, I see the lecturer and he is waving to me. I’m like, “Oh crap he’s going to say something about me skipping class and not paying attention in lectures”. Then he says, “Do you want to see what you got for your exam..? Here it is, you scored 38/50. That’s around 80%, you did well”.

I shall live to sleep another class!

I’ve been RBT’d two nights in a row now.

First night:

Cop: Hi how are you? (not expecting a response)
Me: I’m good! How are you? Busy night?
Cop: … uh yeah I guess. Can I get your ID? [script for RBT]
Me: No problem. Have a good night!
Cop: You too.

Second night:

Same cop.

He looks at me funny as I roll up.

Me: Hey hows it goin?
Cop: … weren’t you here last night?
Me: Haha yeah.
Cop: Man do you always go home so late?
Me: Yep. You need ID?
Cop: Na I remember you. Have a good night.
Me: Seeya.

I go out too much I think.

- Matt

This website I’ve been running for a while broke a few months ago. Basically, the function of the site was to collect posts from different blogs and put them in one place, essentially it’s a big leech of information. It’s OK, all the blogs have proper recognition and I’ll soon be negotiating advertising deals soon.

Anyway, as I was saying, the site died. The posts were no longer syndicating to the front page. I tried reinstalling everything about a million times but nothing worked. Tried changing different settings, upgrading everything to the newest versions, downgrading everything, but nothing worked.

Occasionally something would work. All posts would syndicate… and then it stopped working again. And I couldn’t reproduce the working results.

Then something even stranger happened.

The posts started to disappear.

This started about a week or two ago. I added a new blog and the posts were syndicated (whenever I added a new blog, the posts would syndicate up till that day but then no updates). It was syndicated up till March 27. Then a few days after that, the March 27 post disappeared. Then a few days later, the post previous disappeared. This was weird.

So it got me thinking. Where are these posts?! Where are they going? I started entering different numbers and started finding posts that were never posted. Then I started to realise what had happened…

I quickly went into the posts tab in WordPress and it confirmed my hypothesis. What had happened all these months is my posts WERE being syndicated but were actually held as DRAFTS instead of being published!

So now the site is working – mystery solved!

Woo!

-Matt