Category: Commentary

Easter Status Report

I guess today is a good day to start resurrecting this blog… oh boy that was forced, sorry. Anyways, as I’m sure you know, a few things need attention, Random barely works, Tag cloud is gone without a replacement, Dark mode isn’t available, etc. And although the last word from my host was that it was no longer overloading, I really don’t like how I can’t check on this myself.

At a certain point it was important to keep a normal volume of posts going up for load testing purposes, but as dig in and try to resolve the lingering issues I may once again be updating less often.

Fuck Jetpack

So this plugin was designed by morons, apparently. It caches images forever, with no way to remove or update them. Arguably this is sort of generous… but heaven forbid you ever want to change any image on your website. They claim that deleting images or purging the cache is somehow “difficult technically”, but obviously it’s not, at all. Except for the fact that they’re morons.

Anyway, it seems the only way around this is to give the file a new name. But guess what, wordpress may also have been designed by morons and doesn’t make renaming files possible.

But fortunately, someone by the name of Milan Dinić was not a moron and wrote a nice little plugin for renaming files. That was three years ago, but it still seems to work. Thank goodness.

Anyway, if you see any filenames that start with something like fuckjetpack1-, now you know why.

In other news, I’m starting to lose patience with all this (could you tell?), so I’m just gonna turn the real theme on again and hope for the best. Worst that can happen is they ban me and I have to rebuild my site on some better host. That would be a pain, but so is getting stonewalled by these guys.

April Progress Report

So the good news is my host’s tech support said my blog is now “running normally” (i.e. not overloading). The bad news is I’m still kind of in the dark about what was wrong before and what fixed it.

I guess we’re out of the danger zone, but questions remain. Like whether I can safely switch back to my old theme.  Over the next few days I’ll be trying to get things back to normal, but it’ll likely be a somewhat slow process.

Looks like I’m the April Fool today

Sorry guys, no funny jokes, I’m not in the mood. My site got suspended again. (Same overloading issue that happened last year.) I got them to turn it back on, but doubtless it will happen again before long unless I change something. The worrying part is they now say even the next level up hosting plan (first level VPS) will not be enough. It seems there might be something abnormal going on in WordPress that’s making it much more demanding on CPU than normal. But I can’t even tell because everything is so opaque from my end.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen now. I don’t think I could justify paying $100 a month or something. Maybe it won’t come to that, but I just don’t know right now. I promise Nude World Order won’t disappear completely, but unless this can be sorted out in some non-obvious way, I’m not sure the current format is viable.

If anyone on here is good at WordPress, I could really use some help.

Regular posts will probably be sparse to nonexistent while I try and deal with this. Sorry about that.

Spam Flood

So I got a bunch of spam comments today. As a (hopefully) temporary measure, I’m turning on CAPTCHAs for comments. Looks like you can bypass this if you are logged in, otherwise, sorry for the inconvenience, but I had to do something. They’re coming too fast for screening them manually to be practical.

Cough, cough, cough

Hey guys, you might have noticed updates have been a little sparse the last day or two. That’s because I’m suffering from a miserable cold at the moment.

Doing my best not to completely neglect the blog, but I haven’t got much energy for fun sexy stuff right now. Hopefully I’ll be over it soon, but I do seem prone to lingering respiratory effects. It’s super annoying.

Interview with a Naughty Elf

People who’ve been with me since tumblr will likely remember I had a weekly mock-interview feature for a while. The questions were really from users, and I wrote the answers. It was fun, but also kind of a lot of work (which is why it was discontinued). I’d still kind of like to do something with that again, but haven’t got around to it.

But I happened to notice this old interview which is one of the more amusing ones, IMHO, and seasonal too! So I thought I might as well at least dust this off for anyone who hasn’t seen it before, or who feels little a little trip down memory lane. I posted it on All About Nudity as a “story”.

Interview with a Naughty Elf

Also, if anyone has thoughts about the interview thing in general, feel free to comment.

Email Trouble, Again

As some of you know, I’ve been plagued by email problems off and on for a long time. It’s not even consistent, it’s one thing then another. Very annoying, and I’m sure frustrating for people on the other end as well.

So the latest chapter is that what I had previously considered my “main” email address, , doesn’t seem to be receiving mail anymore. Don’t know why, and don’t know if I can fix it.

My new primary email address is , but because nothing can be simple, that one seems to be having trouble sending mail. So as I result I also made a backup email address . But that one’s webmail so I have to check it manually, also not ideal. Believe me, I know how ridiculous this situation is.

But the upshot is, if you recently sent anything to the first address (@hostx), even as a reply, I probably didn’t get it, so please resend it to one of the other addresses, or use the contact page instead. You can also reach me on Discord, as a third option. I hope I can clean this up and have a single email address that simply works sometime in the near future, but with my luck so far, I wouldn’t count on it.

IndianOutlaw’s Stripping Naked Discussion Board

It was brought to my attention that one of the sites on my link’s page disappeared recently. Apparently the company that was hosting it shut down. But the good news is they had advanced warning and were able to move to a new site. Here’s to another 20 years!

Edit: Uh-oh. It looks like it was taken down by their new host. I fully expect they will try to find another home, I’ll keep you all updated whenever I learn anything.

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