many moons later….
back.
the journey back sucked. mostly due to my ineptitude at pursuing timely software upgrades. and, yieah okay, my tendency to speed read and thus gloss over Literal Meaning Of Words When In A Technical Context. like, when it says XML, it doesn’t mean, you know, CSV culled from a sql backup.
1 – take most of a night to figure out how to forward domain name servers.
2 – domain forwarding takes about a day.
3 – log into new hosting. start working on restoring scratchpad posts.
4 – realize that i can’t because whb installed a much newer version of wp than what i using back at globat. spend another “most of the night” trying to figure out how to macgyver the numerous types of csv/xml/blahblahblah sql table backups into the new version of wp.
5 – discover that it will take A Shit Load of macgyvering. because i was so smart as to export with quotes and NO HEADERS. new wp works best if importing from its very own proprietory xml format.
6 – fuck it, revert doman servers back to globat.
7 – go to bed Very Annoyed.
8 – find out at work the next day that domain forwarding worked. BUT I CAN’T FUCKING UPDATE GLOBAT’S WP INSTALL BECAUSE THERE’S NO FTP AT WERK. FUCK.
9 – go home. fall asleep while leveling up in londi-world 2. download newest version of wp and install it onto globat hosting. fell asleep again before i can muster up the energy to backup the posts in wp’s xml format.
10 – stroke of brilliance strikes in which i bring the portable sd card drive to work. i can backup the posts and theme codes to it, revert the name servers back to whb, then install the whole lot when i get back home!!
11 – attempt at brilliance is EPIC FAIL. because i forget to actually copy the xml backup of the posts onto the portable drive. themes, yes. posts, no. kinda defeats the purpose of the whole exercise. wtf.
12 – revert domain back to whb anyway. i think (fuck i HOPE) i have the xml backup still lying around the werk computer’s local c.
13 – yes it is on the local c! praise be hallelujah! restore posts to whb’s install of wp at werk. and it’s a home-run!!
14 – come home and restore theme code. all is fucking well. finally.
entire journey took over three weeks. this includes the prequel wherein i think i’m all badass because i managed to find out how to create backups of the sql tables using the php console. nevermind that these backups ultimately 1) become outdated because my lazy arse took forever to migrate to whb and 2) ARE USELESS BECAUSE UPGRADED WP WORKS BEST WITH ITS XML BACKUP FORMAT.
what really got my ass in gear to re-setup scratchpad at whb was this post. because guess what [insert entirely snippy and inappropriate derogatory misnomer], taiwan has become as much of a melting pot (if not more) than the states. and it’s not entirely comprised of people who are native to the island. my family came from the mainland. our mother tongue is NOT taiwanese, it’s mandarin. and we’re not the only folks with this background — not to mention the people who immigrated from nearby islands like japan and corea. to say that mandarin is now a stronghold because of the recent influx of business relations with china is bullcrap. maybe back in the post-ww2 years it was a nice balance between mandarin and taiwanese — but in no way was taiwanese ever the mother tongue of the island majority (unless you go back 200 years, and even then there were other native tribes who didn’t speak a lick of taiwanese). so while yieah, okay, i get the author’s saying that maybe things like education would be improved if the system focused on the mother tongue — his assumption that simply because the country’s called taiwan and therefore the main language for everyone must be taiwanese annoys me with its inaccuracy. it’s that broad generalization thing taken to an inexcusable extreme because it’s not even based on any established stereotypes. it’s like assuming that all people who live in africa celebrate kwanzaa. wtf with the random left-field curve ball when the game rules haven’t even been established.
ugh. so yieah. had to get that off my chest.
there’s been other stuffs that’s happened in the interim but i can’t remember them to write about them. maybe later when something random sparks and my gray matter refreshes.