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Blog Errors and American Idol

Posted on | March 3, 2009 | No Comments

I went to my personal blog, poised to start bitching about the regular antics of Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell, when I found that there were numerous MySQL errors within my blog’s rusty innards. The home page was fine and dandy but the admin area, where I go to write my entries, was filled with cryptic errors saying something to the effect of, “Owie! My bloggy bits are broken! It hurts!!!! Me no show your comments and stuff, nor anything that may have ever been related to your comments! MySQL BURNS!!!!”

So I poked around Google… searching for such errors, finding mostly other people bitching about said error in forums of various techno-geeks. I, being more of a Journeyman techno-geek, had trouble understanding what would need to be done, mostly for two reasons: The repair of said error would require that I have actual, physical access to the server, and the other was that it would require more than just a cursory knowledge of Linux/Unix. My understanding of Linux/Unix can be equated to what knowledge would be obtained by simply driving near a library once, while wearing a blindfold, and traveling just under 88 MPH (to avoid the inevitable time travel which occurs at higher rates of speed).

Failing to find an actual fix to the problem I submitted a trouble ticket to my web host, expecting that the ticket would sit there for a few days, grow old and moldy, and drop into the cyber-abyss known as Online Technical Support. I then discovered that it was possible to download a backup of just the effected table and import it into the database, overwriting whatever error was contained within. Voila! Problem fixed. Dave is a God. The world may resume its rotation.

So I opened my admin page to write a new post, which brings us to this very moment. Now that I have that out of the way…

Every time I watch American Idol I find myself annoyed by the subtle accusations between Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest that the other is The Gay. It’s gotten old and insulting to me, who is The Gay. I’m tired of it. Don’t they have anything better to do? Any other witty repartee?

It’s gotten to the point where Simon will accuse Ryan of having a thing for any male contestant who could possibly be considered a tad on the fey side. Ryan then rebuts that it is Simon who may have a thing for said alleged queer. Ha ha friggin’ ha. Not funny. The poor contestant always looks rather uncomfortable when this is going on, having no clue if they should respond, or how. And I watch thinking, man, they must have some real issues with gay people if they have to constantly bring that shit up.

Look, American Idol, you really wouldn’t have a show without The Gays. About half of the guys that audition are rumored to be gay at one point or another. The man-on-man action photos often surface at some point, and I’d venture to guess that a predominance of the male audience is a little on the fruity side. Stop alienating The Gays!

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