Thu, 01 Nov 2007
There's always a catch
I installed Wordpress today so Sarah the diarist can have a blog. After a hitting a spot of trouble I considered signing her up for a free public blog at wordpress.com but I quickly woke up and realized that's not an option. When she's an adult she can blog whatever whe wants wherever she wants; til then she can blog on our home intranet.
The catch: when we accessed the blog from another computer via http://billw-desktop/sarah/wordpress the address was translated to http://localhost/sarah/wordpress. Turns out I had her configuration slightly wrong: under wp-admin -> Options, I had used http://localhost/sarah/wordpress in "WordPress address (URL)" and "Blog address (URL)"; after changing localhost to the computer's router-assigned IP address, all was well - now she can blog from any computer in the house.
Here are a couple of samples of her writing. First, from her third-person wikipedia entry:
Caroline Margaret White is two-and-a-half years old. (All of Sarah's brothers and sisters are and-a-halfs, but not her.) The White family does not know her favorite thing to do, but she "sings" a lot in baby talk. Though she is almost three, she can't talk much.
And this from her first blog post, about our Halloween celebration yesterday:
After a while it was time for the scavenger hunt. We were supposed to find some candy. Daddy had made clues, and the first one was in Daddy's pocket. It said:
Go into the pink room, where ghosts blow through the air. Look at the hockey table, the one that blows air.
I forgot whether those are the exact words he used, but never mind... maybe he will tell them to me later.
The scavenger hunt was upstairs. Daddy came with us. He said he did it 'to protect us from ghosts and goblins.' There were no ghosts or goblins up there, but sometimes Daddy jumped out through the door of a room we were passing by, and roared like a monster. We laughed when he did that! Eventually we found the candy, on the top bunk of the bunk-beds in the blue room, in a basket that looked like a jack-o'-lantern.
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