Archive for May 3rd, 2007

2007.05.03

(Not So) Free Day

Today at around noon the power went out in the Fisherman’s Wharf/Pier 39/North Beach area. Unfortunately there are absolutely zero news articles about it on the web so no linky.

I was just sitting down to order take out fried rice at China House when the lights went out. So much for food. Then I got a txt msg from Jerome saying the power was out so I hauled back to work and we got all the computers on UPS power shut down. Then we waited till we heard PG&E wasn’t going to have the power on for a few hours. The decision was made to send everyone home except, of course, Operations and IT (lucky me!).

At about 2:30PM I had to eat. Jerome and I headed off to Burger Meister. We were almost done eating when the power went off there, too. I’m glad we got our food because if I didn’t eat at that point I was ready to hurt people. I do not play well with others when I’m hungry.

I think it was 4:30PM by the time the power was up, and a bit after that Jerome skived off and joined a few other fellow electricity refugees from work and imbibed vino at one of the local cafes.

I heard the figure thrown out that we lost about $200,000 in productivity (salaries, work stoppage, etc) in the half day no one could work. I will never understand how someone out there isn’t responsible for this…

Besides, I’m just wishing I could have spent the whole afternoon drinking wine and not worrying about work. Maybe I’m hungry again. Grrr.

2007.05.03

WordPress Geo Plugin Snafu

For a couple weeks now I’ve noticed that the page I use to write posts to this site wasn’t loading completely. The section that allows me to upload pictures or add custom fields was missing! Today I finally decided to start digging into why this was happening, and I isolated the problem as something within the Geo plugin.

Naturally I started Googling to see if I could find someone else who had the same problem and had found a solution. Unfortunately no solutions seem forthcoming.

The problem from what I can see (I’m not a PHP coder so this is educated guess work) is that in the file edit-form-advanced.php the code <?php do_action('edit_form_advanced'); ?> should pull in data and fields from plugins. Indeed the Geo plugin seems to have a hook function edit_form_advanced($not_used). I thought the “$not_used” was a clue but even when I pull it out things aren’t better.

This bug trac seems to indicate it might be a problem with PHP itself and mentions a problem with PHP 5.2.0 which was supposedly fixed in 5.2.1… but my host is running that already. The ticket also recommends using the latest cache.php include for WordPress but there was no love there.

I’m running the latest version of the Geo plugin (1.9.1) and have confirmed this behaviour in WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.2. Unfortunately I’ve only been able to test this on PHP 5.2.1 (I have no idea when my hosting provider upgraded). If anyone has any clues as to what could be happening I would love to know!