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Wednesday Open Trackbacks

Here it is the middle of the week again.  Sorry about the delay in posting this. I was having difficulties with my web host last night. I uploaded an update to the site code, and suddenly the site stopped working, showing a configuration error. The test site on my development machine was working fine, so it was a bit frustrating.

Then EVERYTHING quit working. I couldn't even upload a site-offline notice to let people know I would be back as soon as I resolved the problems with my web host. In fact, I couldn't upload anything.

I'm not sure why this happened, but the problem has apparently been resolved and I'm back. So, without further grief, this is your open trackbacks post for Wednesday, February 7, 2007.

If you have something interesting you'd like to share, feel free to link it here and leave a trackback.

Just remember the trackback policy.

For the best exposure, go to the blogger's oasis and use the linkfest chooser to choose the posts you'd like to hook up with.

Trackback URI for this post: http://perrinelson.com/track.aspx?postid=453
Permalink URI for this post: http://perrinelson.com/2007/2/7/453.aspx

The Random Yak trackbacked with "Rejection Risk Awareness Week"

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Pirate's Cove trackbacked with "Today’s Global Warming Insanity"

Let's start with Internet Al MADRID , SPAIN (CNN) — Former Vice President Al Gore said in an interview on Tuesday the Bush administration is now paying scientists to dispute global warming since the administration can no longer argue against ...

Woman Honor Thyself trackbacked with "Sue FrancE!"

The Paris Mo–sque is suing a French satirical magazine for alleged racism, saying three cartoons in an edition published last year were insulting to Mus–lims. ...

Plank's Constant trackbacked with "Black Profiling is a necessary and good thing"

If police officers pull over 1% more blacks than their proportion to the national average Al Sharpton and his band of white-bashers and cop-haters pop into action. If I were black I would loathe being pulled over more often than whites. However I wou...

Adam's Blog trackbacked with "Truth and Hope Report: Is Vote by Mail a Good Idea "

Vote by mail is sold as the new cheaper and more convenient way to hold elections, but is there a downside? Tonight's guest Gentry Lange of No Vote by Mail made the case that the answer is a definite yes. Of course, some of my liberal detractors ...

Renaissance Blogger trackbacked with "Sins of Preaching and Blogging and Writing"

Skye Jethani posts, over at Out of Ur, John Ortberg’s list of the The Ten Deadly Sins of Preaching. Here’s a few: . The temptation to be inauthentic We want to present an image to others that makes us appear more holy, intelligent, or godly...

bernie responded with:

When I ping I get  "Trackback URL does not reference the weblog entry's permalink."

Do you change the permalink address after you write your post?  I see others are trackbacking to you, are you manually adding those?

Perri Nelson responded with:

When you ping my post, I retrieve the URL your trackback says links to
my post and I parse the HTML. I search for a non-commented <A>
tag with an HREF attribute that contains the permalink to my post. If I
don't find a match then I reject the ping.

I do not change the
permalink URL after posting, but the permalink format did change in the
past. The old format for the permalink of the post you commented on is
http://perrinelson.com/viewpost.aspx?postid=453, but the new format for
the permalink is http://perrinelson.com/2007/2/7/453.aspx. Both will
work to retrieve the post, but only the new format is accepted.


All of the trackbacks listed on my site are the result of pings. I have not manually added any except one for you.



I will update the site tonight to include the permalink URL next to the
trackback URL to make it easier to post, and I will also modify the
trackback module to accept either form of the permalink.



These changes will probably not appear on the site until later this evening.

Perri Nelson responded with:

Thanks to bernie, yet another bug has been squashed. His trackbacks were failing, and it was due to an error in my parsing code. That bug should be fixed now, and I've added additional diagnostics around failures to the trackback module.