Ava Ganache

It’s ok – she can’t hear me.  She’s gone to bed.  By the time she gets up and reads this, I’ll have gone to bed myself.  I might just get away with it.

Thing is, Vex make some really spiffy deck chairs.  She plurked about them, even.  And she parked them on the roof of our house.  Almost as soon as I saw them, I threw out the old ones I had, and Vex put the new ones on the balcony outside our bedroom.  I wanted a photo.  I sent a postcard from SL.  And that’s where the trouble started.

For a kick-off, you can see there are two posts below this one: the earlier one has no picture, which rather defeats the object of trying to show you what these chairs look like.  The later one does have a picture.  So far, so good.  So what’s the difference between the two postings, I hear you clamour (ok, I’m actually fantasizing that you clamour to know, when really you’re only reading this to be polite).

The difference is that older postcard was sent straight to this blog in the expectation that Postmaster would handle it, as it always has done.  The more recent postcard – the one with the picture intact – came via Posterous.  If this is all sounding familiar, then you’ve probably read stuff here from a year ago, when I concluded that Postmaster was good and Posterous better, as a means of getting SL postcards into this blog.

Well… here’s the update.  Maybe as a result of the Wordpress upgrade to 2.8 (did I mention that ?) Postmaster seems partly broken – the postcard email title gets through, but the picture – the only but that really matters – gets dumped somewhere.  It disappears into the ether.

So, that prompted me to go exploring the bowels of wordpress (again), and fiddling with email handling plugins (again).  In the process, I found that the old original plugin, Postie, that never really worked for me, has been resurrected and is now under new management.  What’s more, it seems to work, based on the limited testing I’ve done so far.  But testing it caused a few issues, I’m afraid – largely as a result of my convoluted cross-posting arrangement that I’ve mentioned before.  Sadly, a few test messages escaped into the plurkdom.  I don’t like spam, so I’m not happy at creating it.  So I’m blaming Vextra.  If her deck chairs had been rubbish (or ‘garbage’ if you prefer), this would never have happened.

So here’s a couple of pictures, so you can see what caused my problems…

Not bad, huh?  Talented girl, that Vextra, but God does she cause me problems