… but I used it for good!
Imagine my dismay when I saw this in the space where my blogroll used to be …
WordPress database error: [Incorrect key file for table ‘wp_linkcategories’; try to repair it]
SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_description, link_visible, link_category AS cat_id, cat_name AS category, wp_users.user_login, link_id, link_rating, link_rel FROM wp_links LEFT JOIN wp_linkcategories ON wp_links.link_category = wp_linkcategories.cat_id LEFT JOIN wp_users ON wp_users.ID = wp_links.link_owner ORDER BY link_name
… as I was scrolling down through my blog one day last month. It was horrifying. Not so much in a real gut-wrenching “your daughter has just been attacked” kind of way, but more in the “oh no … I don’t know what to do now” kind of way. So I did the kind of thing I’m really good at … I ignored it and hoped it would go away all by itself. But it didn’t.
It mocked me every time I scrolled down to check. It laughed in my face and giggled at my incompetence. Waggled its ears at my consternation. Pheh. So I took all the wind out of its sails and stopped checking. Hah! That’ll fix it’s wagon … that dreadful code.
I mulled it over and thought for a while. Then I decided to take my links (blogroll) out of my sidebar altogether. I’ve moved them you see to their own page. I called the page, Beacon Hills after the mountain top signal fires in the Lord of the Rings. It seems fitting, given the name of my blog. Then I thought, “I’d love to have a dynamic blogroll. I wonder how hard that would be.” So I did a Google search. I found a way to hitch up my GoogleReader to a widget in my sidebar (HT to ZeroBoss) . So the links that are listed on Beacon Hills are providing the sustenance for the posts listed in my sidebar as “beacon hills” via sonja. It’s so Web 2.0 I can hardly stand myself. You probably can’t stand me either 😉
