Omaha Digital Communications Group

Whoops! Your sleep-deprived website admin pulled a Homer today and accidentally deleted the entire OmahaDigital.org directory on his web server! Good thing he has the site backing up to his mule computer in Lincoln!

I able to restore the site’s files (obviously, since you’re here reading this) a few minutes after the accident. Estimated downtime was around 10 minutes. The database was not harmed.

I’ll be more careful next time!

As expected, the upgrade went off without a hitch!

I’ve also installed a couple of plug-ins to Wordpress which may add some neat functionality. One of them is a house keeping measure, to help block spam comments, which thankfully we don’t have a problem with.

The other is for OpenID authentication. For those of you already using OpenID, you can log-in to our website using an OpenID provider of your choice. This will give you the ability to comment on posts and pages without needing to create a username and password specific to this site.

For those of you not using OpenID, allow me to offer a general overview of what it is. OpenID was created with the idea that you’ve already got an account at another website, perhaps LiveJournal, for example. To use another site, it seems silly to have a log-in for every site. Instead, why not have LiveJournal vouch for your identity? That’s essentially how it works. Continuing with our example with LiveJournal, if I wanted to use OmahaDigital.org with OpenID from LiveJournal, I would log-in to OmahaDigital.org with an address to my page at LiveJournal, for example sampleuser.livejournal.com and hit the log-in button. My browser will then go to LiveJournal and ask me to log-in there, using my LiveJournal username and password. Once authenticated, LiveJournal vouches for me with OmahaDigital.org, and says, “Hey, this K0SKW character is the real deal, let them comment!” and I’d then be presented with the comment box.

It sounds complicated, but once you’ve done it, it makes sense.

More site-work to come in coming days, have a few things in mind I want to play with first!

Good evening everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be moving our installation to Wordpress 2.6 from Wordpress 2.5.1. I do not foresee any issues with upgrading, and am currently upgrading another one of my sites.

I expect the upgrade to take under a half-hour, and be started sometime around 10pm local tonight.

Thanks, and I’ll see ya on the air.

Yes, just when you got used to the old new site, I have to go and change it! But it’s not completely my fault. The server on which OmahaDigital.org used to call home went on the fritz. I haven’t been able to recover it yet. I’ve since moved to a hosting company instead of maintaining my own server.

What this means for you, is this: If you’ve previously registered, until further notice, you’ll need to re-register. I may be able to recover the database we used to use, and I may be able to restore your account, but it’d probably be easier if you just re-registered. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Do not be alarmed if the theme changes, either. I’m still working on it.