I Hope You Laughed Your Ass Off

If not at the joke in the pre­vi­ous post, at least at the man who took over an hour to post it to his blog.

About mid-morning my email alert chimed and when I opened it I got a lit­tle joke from one of the usual sus­pects. I thought it was cute and I hadn’t blogged one in a while, so I went online and hit “new Entry.”

Because it came the way it did there was of course sev­eral right brack­ets and extra car­riage returns to remove, so I cut and pasted into an empty txt file. After spruc­ing up I cut and pasted it into the Entry Body area and hit publish.

I was greeted with a 404. Huh? Back but­ton, try again, 404. Maybe there is some sort of hid­den escape char­ac­ter that I can’t see and the cut­ting and past­ing is just insert­ing it, which makes the entry fail. So I open the txt file in word and save it as a word doc­u­ment. I close out Word and open it back up to the file. I then save it to a plain txt file again. Open the txt file, copy and paste that into the Entry area again and hit pub­lish. 404. Dang.

Next I try and paste in each of the 3 para­graphs one at a time pub­lish­ing after each one. First one goes fine, sec­ond one too, but num­ber three is the cul­prit. So I try past­ing it into the Extended Entry area to see if it would work there. Nope. Dang, Now I’ve got 2/3 a joke online and no punch line. I delete the post and rebuild the blog. I’ll try again when I get home, maybe some­thing at work is caus­ing it…

I for­warded the email to home and did the whole clean and prune exer­cise again before attempt­ing the post­ing. All three para­graphs at once net­ted the same results, 404. (which reminds me, I need to make a cus­tom 404 page for here) So I plugged in the first two para­graphs and pub­lished. I then started adding 3 or 4 words at a time from the punch para­graph until it failed. Which turned out to be right after the word python. I tried skip­ping the word weally when past­ing and that didn’t work. I then tried typ­ing in the word weally, nope. How about if I spell it cor­rectly? Really didn’t do the trick either. So then I went back to my orig­i­nal txt file and pasted it in. That worked! There was a line break after the word python in that file, so I cleaned up the text file and I left the extra car­riage return in after python and that worked too. The thing that I did to solve the prob­lem and not have a mis­placed car­riage return was I placed a no break­ing space in html code between python and weally.