First off, let me say that, thanks to yesterday’s technical difficulties, you missed an incredibly delightful Fat Tuesday post. It was not only intelligent and insightful, but there wasn’t even a mention of the weather. Oh well, maybe next year.

On the odd chance that anybody is interested (or maybe somebody out there is experiencing the same problem and is looking for a solution), here’s what happened…. I was able to add a post, but when I tried to publish it, more or less nothing happened. The post went into “Draft” status and the content was empty. I managed to get some content filled in, but couldn’t get the sucker to post. I even went into the table and edited the status directly. No joy.

Being too busy playing Need for Speed Rivals, I didn’t have a chance to look at it until this morning, when I saw I was getting this Javascript error:

window.wp.autosave.local.suspend is not a function

To make a long story a bit shorter, there’s a WordPress plugin called Jetpack that includes a lot of nifty little things, including a somewhat annoying pre-post proofreader. Turns out there’s some kind of a bug in that (which doesn’t seem to affect all WP installations – and in fact wasn’t a problem here until yesterday. At least, not that I noticed). So, anyway, I turned off Jetpack, and so far so good.

Unfortunately, while I was screwing around with that last night, I managed to bugger up the HTML Quick Tags bar on the comment form. I don’t think the two things are related (the comment thing is an old plugin that probably is long past its useful life), but I have yet to fix it or find a new plugin that works. Until I figure something out, consider this a marvelous opportunity to learn some basic html.

And when you find yourself thinking “Christ, this is tedious and boring” while you’re trying to add a link or a blockquote or something, imagine having to do that all day long, every day of your life in an airless, windowless dark hole of an office.

If that doesn’t depress you, nothing will.