blog.bagaki.com

12 hours later (5 of which were fixing my damage - im sick of looking at database structure, lets just say that) this is where im at. this is the first phase of the new bagaki.com that is coming in celebration of our 7th birthday. i have gobs, thats right, gobs of new features to implement and activate before the blog is truely in working condition again. unfortunately i was not able to leave the previous working version in place while i performed the upgrade, so here is a limited version.

think video, audio, mobile posting and administration, cross platform integration, bagakiRADIO, bagaki.TV, pretty colors, fancy-dancy features and AIDS kittens all wrapped into one.

i cannot promise an eta because quite frankly i have meetings all day tomorrow with upper management regarding our company-wide restructure. all i know is that those creeps better not think about “cutting” Gurt, oh no, not if they know what is good for them.

enjoy… for now.

Gurt T Luhrman
Editor, Cock

Here is the latest update…. The building where our new office will be contained has been procured, construction is underway. I am going to check it out later in the week and see if I can’t lend a hand to get the process rolling. I was talking to our electrician tonight about getting things wired up, and it sounds like it will be easier than planned. I know that the office and studio are framed, and as soon as things are wired up the drywall crew will be in to make it look pretty. Then Mr Bagaki is giving me the corporate card to go off and buy a fun new work environment so that I can be three times more productive than before, which if you ask me is a scam to work me harder, but I never turn down a chance to spend the bosses money.

I will let you know more as things develop.

Gurt T Luhrman
Editor, Cock, General Contractor

I am noticing continued interaction with the blog and have been stocking up on ideas for articles. I am wondering if there might still be enough interest to revive this sucker before it totally sinks into the world of dead and defunct blogs. The residual traffic is still keeping things afloat, and with user interaction still on the heels of hiatus I think I might bring this sucker back. But only if I get to redesign things a bit. I am bored with this look, as it was simply a transitional piece anyway. Plus I need to update the software and add some new analytical software to the backend. Send me some feedback and let us know if we should….

Gurt T Luhrman

April 23, 2007

After long thought and deliberation Mr Bagaki, myself, and the other suit types at Bagaki Enterprises have decided to put the blog on hiatus for a while. We have decided that since content as of late had been getting pretty thin and that directly correlated to a readership drop. We understand why. So as not to abandon all of you readers we will be leaving the blog up and putting many of you on our mailing list to keep you up to date on all happenings bagaki. In the meantime we will be dedicating much of our energy to many of the dozens of other projects currently underway.

Thank you for the several years of loyal readership and hope that you will continue to support bagaki in your local communities.

Be well,

Gurt T Luhrman
Editor, Cock

I have upgraded the blogging software and upgraded the current theme we use. I have reinstalled all plugins and added a few new features, which I will take the time to explain once they are all installed. At this time we have decided not to use a completely new layout for a few reasons. The main reason is that we haven’t found another theme we like and we have integrated a few new features that really play nice with our current three column layout.

What I think I will probably do until version 4.0 is keep the layout we have now, continue to tweak it, and give it a full face lift. Poke around a bit and see how things work. I know it doesn’t look pretty right now but give me a day and some of that should be fixed. I need to take a nap for a while and don’t feel like any design work right now. Digging through CSS files is not what I enjoy doing at 6am on a Wednesday after having spent most of my night getting this damn thing functional again.

AUTHORS: One feature you will enjoy is the new “auto-save” when you’re writing up a post.

We’ve relaunched bagaki.TV, this time with TWO ways to watch. Browse through our videos or channel surf. We’ve added new content, we’re adding more content all the time. Check it out again for the first time.

After months of promises and toil bagaki.TV is finally up. You can check out our site and see what we are up to. We have a flashy new logo! Well, we’re working on it. Check for major improvements early 2007! (Including navigation that WORKS)

We are playing with different ad mechanisms and such, but nothing obtrusive or unavoidable. The nice thing is that you can always skip the ad. We are playing with ads at the end of the features too, again making them avoidable. (Although we doubt you are going to want to miss them [wink])

Drop us some feedback, we love to hear what you have on your mind.

You will notice the “share this” icon at the bottom of posts and pages. I have added a new feature to allow readers to submit this site and its content to various social networking websites. If you find something on this website valuable you can also directly email a post to someone. I have tested this plug-in on the latest version of Firefox and everything works fine. I briefly tested on Internet Explorer 6 and there were issues. I have yet to try on IE7. Let me know if you run into any hiccups and feel free to spread the goodness that is blog.bagaki.com

Oooh, all kinds on news on the home front this week. First bagakiTV launches a new video, albeit a re-release, and now thebagakiexperience.com gives us a taste of the new look. I say bravo to Mr Bagaki for whipping his web developers and motivating them on that project. I think they have been sitting idle on thebagakiexperience.com since its inception years ago. Kudos, please don’t whip me today boss.

This is just the beginning of a long indoor winter where all of Mr Bagaki’s slaves are forced to produce his life-long dream and dynasty that is to become know as… Mr Bagaki’s Opus. Seriously, we hope to continue to bombard you with new and exciting websites, products, features, events, and videos. Now lets just hope my eyes don’t fall out of my head from staring at the computer monitor for such lengths.

Over a year later I have finally taken the time to post all of the birthday cards mailed to founding members of bagaki.com for the 5th birthday bash. If you never received your card, don’t fret it, apparently a few didn’t. But now you can see what you (were supposed to) and everyone else got.

The 2005 Birthday Cards Archive

I want all of you IE users to take a look-see and let me know if things are messed up again after this post. We are in the process of nailing down the cause of the missing right columns and as of right now believe it to be something with our CSS. Drop us a line and let us know.

It would be helpful if you let us know what version of Internet Explorer you are using so we can see how this is related to that application. Right now we do not know if this is a web standards issue or a rendering issue. From out tests, this post should appear in IE 6 with all three columns (but with errors on the page).

One thing I did just notice is when you vote in the poll using IE 6, the results are displayed but they are moved considerably down the page. Please let us know of any issues you may be having.

Thanks

Mr Bagaki
The Pistol Whipping Master

For the past few days I have been upset that many of you had not been taking advantage of the new polling system we installed for your pleasure. Now it seems that due to browser limitations you are not able to SEE the new polling system, or any of the right columned stuffs. Bummer. This sucks. I did testing on this exact problem and found that the new theme caused problems while the old theme didn’t. Well guess what. I changed back to the old theme and found that it too no longer works correctly in IE. I’m not sure where the problem lies, but I have turned the updated version back on. This is what pisses me off about corporate IT departments and their proprietary web applications. Stupid Microsoft, stupid programmers, stupid me for not conducting thorough enough tests. (If it makes you feel any better, the site doesn’t work with IE 7 either)

I will look into the problem because I do know how important the sidebar stuff is, heck it is what makes this site. Until then, I suggest sneaking a copy of Firefox onto your corporate terminal or you could always just give up on life. The choice is yours.

So here is the final scoop. I gave Gurt a good ol’ pistol whipping and that seemed to fix everything in his life, including this blog. He has completed the updates for ALL of the software, including the features he said he wasn’t going to update (the theme for starters).

The biggest highlight for everyone is that the polls are now FIXED!!! You are now allowed to vote as many times as you like and add as many answers as you like. We have removed all IP logging features and set poll cookies to expire immediately. If you are not able to vote more than once, you will need to flush out any OLD cookies that were installed prior to our upgrades. This is done in your browsers settings window.

We had promised a new feature that would allow ANYONE to edit their comments. Unfortunately the code we are working with has what seems to be a fatal flaw in it, ANYONE can edit EVERYONE’S comments. This just simply won’t work. We are still working on this feature and will inform you of our progress.

Gurt is now finishing up a few style changes, but nothing major. Everything should be working correctly now. If you experience any problems or errors, please let us know.

Best wishes and a Happy Weekend

Mr Bagaki
One Happy Man

UPDATE: I have chosen not to continue with updating the theme. I have already spent way too much time on this thing, and after testing the updated theme in IE and finding it doesn’t work very good, I have decided to leave things well enough alone. Here is what is officially updated:

Word Press Software –> 2.0.5
Audio Player
The Polls - CLEAR YOUR COOKIES FROM BLOG.BAGAKI.COM FOR A TREAT!!!!!!!!
Subscribe To Comments

We were going to add a new feature that allows users to edit their comments (up to 30 minutes after the post) but that isn’t going to happen probably until the next major update. We just need more time to test things and really, we have too many other projects in the chute to be messing with a minor update to the theme and blog software. The majors were updated and that is what really matters. If you are experiencing any problems please let us know ASAP so we can address the issue.

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Well, we are still working out all of the bugs from the latest round of updates. Some of the plug-ins work, some don’t. The updated theme needs A LOT OF ATTENTION, so I don’t know about that. The simple one-hour update is now stretching into the 14 hour mark, and frankly we are sick of it.

I don’t know what I will decide to do, but I suppose I will have to get this sucka workin, otherwise a pistol whipping will be in order. So, hang in there with me as things work-then-don’t-work for the next few hours.

Peace be with you.