Category Archives: Administrivia

Website issues mostly fixed

I’m sure you noticed that the website looked funky all of a sudden for a few weeks, and now it has a different look that has brought back the right sidebar. It’s still not perfect, but it definitely looks better. … Continue reading

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Saturday Video Break: This is a test

Howdy folks. Greg here. Charles and I have just been rooting around WordPress to look into some possible tech issues the site has been having lately. The video below is not a function of those issues. Instead, its just my … Continue reading

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Happy New Year’s Day

I’m taking the day off. May 2019 be happy and prosperous for you and your family.

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I’m back

Howdy. I’m tanned, rested, and ready to go. I’ve got a couple of stories from my time off that I’ll try to catch up on over the next day or two, but otherwise I’ll just jump right in as if … Continue reading

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Programming note

I’m going to be taking a bit of a mental health break for the next ten days or so. I’ve got things queued up to publish during this time, including the last of the runoff precinct analyses, an exit interview … Continue reading

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Twelve years

Twelve years ago today, I started this blog. That was on blogspot – believe it or not, it still exists; truly, the Internet is forever – and a few months later I had my own domain. I don’t do retrospectives, … Continue reading

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Guest posts coming

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be running a series of guest posts that I have solicited from a variety of people. I’m doing this partly to give myself a bit of a breather during the summer lull … Continue reading

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Social media update

This is just a friendly reminder that you can find much of this blog’s content on the official Off the Kuff Facebook page, which I hope you will like. I was asked recently what the purpose of that page was, … Continue reading

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And we’re back

So you might have noticed that the blog was down yesterday. I posted about what was happening on my Facebook status, but the long-story-short is that my webhost moved my site to a new server but the data didn’t move … Continue reading

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Time for a change

I think this sums it up, for the most part: After nearly seven years with Movable Type, I’ve switched over to WordPress, which has proven to be quicker and more flexible. Thanks to the diligence of Greg Wythe, this should … Continue reading

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Pardon our dust

Still doing maintenance. Regular posting will resume later, probably tomorrow. Some old post links may not work during this interval, but all should be well soon. There’s still a new look to come, but as the back-end part of the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Maintenance window

I’m having some maintenance done on the site this evening, hopefully including an upgrade to Movable Type 4.12 and a new look with a few new features. As such, you may not be able to see much on this page … Continue reading Continue reading

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Twitter

I’ve gone and drunk the Twitter Kool-Aid, so those of you who can’t get enough of me and want to know what sort of thing I consider too trivial to blog about, there you have it. It’s oddly addictive, and … Continue reading Continue reading

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Gmail forwarding problems

I’ve used the kuff – at – offthekuff – dot – com address for as long as I’ve had the offthekuff.com domain. I still use it today, though I’ve had it forwarded to Gmail for some months now. Unfortunately, it … Continue reading Continue reading

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What’s up with Google Blog Search?

Back in June, I wondered why a Google blog search for links to my site was suddenly returning so many fewer results than a Technorati search was. Recently, in the course of doing some background research for a post, Vince … Continue reading Continue reading

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EPIDEMIC!

Kuff is the second person I know with pneumonia. Maybe not an epidemic, but definitely not good. I was all set to be a guest blogger when he goes out of town soon and now I find myself brought up … Continue reading Continue reading

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OffTheKuff = OutWithPneumonia

Well, it looks like the vile enemy pneumonia has sidetracked this blog’s namesake. He’ll be on injured reserve for a few days. Guest bloggers have been given the bat signal, so blogging will resume in however much of an OnTheKuff … Continue reading Continue reading

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A question for those with Google Fu

I’ve known for awhile that my average daily Sitemeter traffic fluctuates mainly with search engine referrals. The variation can be as much as a few hundred hits a day. There are other factors, of course – the end of the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Please pardon the interruption

My site has been basically inaccessible to me all day – I don’t know what was going on with my webhost, but I was last able to use Movable Type around 9 AM this morning. I think they must have … Continue reading Continue reading

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Five years

Today marks my fifth anniversary of blogging. Given that I got into this more or less on a lark, as an outlet to do some regular writing for the first time since college, that really amazes me. According to Movable … Continue reading Continue reading

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Comment problem

I had some kind of problem with comments starting last night. I’m not sure what it was, and it seems to have magically cleared itself up today, but when I first discovered it, one of the things I did to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Gone fishin’

Well, not exactly, because I don’t fish. But I do take a break now and then, and now is the time. We’ve got a bunch of extended-family activities going on over the next week and a half, so I’ll be … Continue reading Continue reading

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Mail is flowing again

Looks like my mail problem has been resolved. I still can’t say for certain that stuff is arriving in a timely manner, but it all does appear to be arriving. So, please go back to using the offthekuff.com address as … Continue reading Continue reading

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Email delivery problems

My webhost is apparently having some having some problems that appear to be affecting my mail delivery. I say this because I haven’t seen any new mail since 6 PM last night, and I’ve verified that I don’t get a … Continue reading Continue reading

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Away from my desk

I’ll be tied up with family business through the weekend, and will have limited time for any blog-related program activities. Fortunately, I have activated the Emergency Guest Blogger network, so there should be some new stuff here whether or not … Continue reading Continue reading

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Email problems

FYI, my webhost is experiencing email delivery issues. The last email I received was at 11:20 AM. If you’ve been trying to reach me since then, I haven’t gotten it yet. You can try my alternate address, cakuffner – at … Continue reading Continue reading

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Comments are working again

With a big ol’ hat tip to Greg Wythe, whose mojo with the phpAdmin tool for MySQL is clearly greater than mine, comments are once again working on this site. Feel free to use this as an open thread to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Comments have disappeared

Well, I woke up this morning to find that all of the comments seem to have disappeared from the blog. Further, an attempt on my part to leave a comment in a post gave no indication that it was accepted. … Continue reading Continue reading

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And I’m back

And we’re all back from California, where the travel was made much more bearable by the fact that my daughter is a mutant alien from the Planet of Unnaturally Agreeable Toddlers. How people with more normal children handle flying is … Continue reading Continue reading

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Out of the office

I’m leaving in a few minutes for a trip to California for a week, so I’ll be turning over the blog to my fine collection of guest hosts. If I have the opportunity to pop in and say something I … Continue reading Continue reading

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TypeKey authentication working now

Thanks to some excellent support from Movable Type, I believe I’ve gotten TypeKey authentication working. That means that as of now, if you sign in with a TypeKey ID, your comment will appear right away, with no wait for approval. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Comment change

I’ve had moderated comments for several months now – it was originally a defense against an obnoxious troll, but it’s also the default setting that I inherited when I upgraded to version 3.2 of Movable Type. I think it works … Continue reading Continue reading

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Guest star time

I’m off to Portland for the weekend for my niece’s baptism. I’ve activated the Emergency Guest Blogger Network, so don’t be surprised to see a different byline or two this weekend. Be nice to them, they’re doing me a big … Continue reading Continue reading

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Display problem seems to be fixed

Figured out what the sidebar-display problem was about: my use of a fixed-width font in this post. I could swear that it displayed correctly on Wednesday when I posted it, but I just realized today that it was the cause … Continue reading Continue reading

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