Today I have to catch up on some work. I have to read some pretty boring procedural documents for work. Also I’m trying to figure out how to make a global change in the website database. There’s a free “plugin” that can be used to make the change one post at a time but I need to carry it out on something like 5,800 posts. There’s a commercial version that supposedly will carry out the change globally but I think it’s a small programming change to do it myself. So I’m reading this book on PHP and MySQL development. The book’s about 600 pages so I suspect this will take a while to get a handle on. But I feel it’s a good idea to start understanding how this web development stuff works. Underneath the HTML page structure the PHP programming controls the dynamic aspects of the web site. the thing I want to do is a database copy and paste operation. In my ignorant take on this it should be like copying a row of excel cells and pasting it into another row. But the reality, I’m sure, will be much much messier. If the website crashes and burns you’ll know I pushed the wrong button.
Other than that, I’m continuing on with my holiday routine of eating too many Christmas cookies and watching way too many old movies. It’s a simple plan but it works for me.
I studiously avoided the Zelenskyyyyyyyyy speech before Congress. I added the extra y’s because I have now seen his name spelled with one y and two y’s and want to get ahead of the curve. Honestly I wonder how long we can keep up sending billions of dollars to those people. All we’re doing is throwing gasoline on a fire. It’s pretty scary. If the Russians level Kiev are we going to try and invade Russia. Even Dementia Joe can’t be that stupid. He’ll end up on the trifecta with Napoleon and Hitler.
Well, that’s enough for now. I’ll get something together later when the Muse strikes.