Finally, got it working too. It is easy, everything is a snap, except when you have want to make some really “fancy” thing on your site – like the Video Posts on the right -, then it’s php coding. Or when it chokes on plugins, like on Disqus. Don’t know why, but it simply could not handle it.

I wonder what can cause this behaviour, as people say they are running it without trouble – I am well prepared now for the flaming I’m going to get for pointing out problems :) – but below you can see the problem in all it’s glory.

The tricky thing is what I have discovered is that it only happens in the Featured leaf, and then only when I set it to Rotate the posts.

The solution for now was pure hacking. The Disqus code that seems to be the cuplrit – or the victim, depends on how you look at it – can be found in the disqus.php:

function dsq_comment_count() {
  global $dsq_cc_script_embedded;
  if ( $dsq_cc_script_embedded ) {
    return;
  } else if ( (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments || is_feed()) ) {
    return;
  }
  ?>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  // <![CDATA[
   (function() {
     var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
     var query = '&';
     for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
       if(links[i].href.indexOf('#disqus_thread') >= 0) {
       links[i].innerHTML = 'View Comments';
       query += 'wpid' + i + '=' + encodeURIComponent(links[i].getAttribute('wpid')) + '&';
     }
   }
   document.write('<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo DISQUS_URL ?>/forums/<?php echo strtolower(get_option('disqus_forum_url')); ?>/get_num_replies_from_wpid.js?v=2.0' + query + '"><' + '/script>');
 })();
 //]]>
 </script>
 <?php
   $dsq_cc_script_embedded = true;
}

This only happened in the Featured Post leaf, and only when I enabled Rotate – maybe the rotate script and the Disqus script get tangled. I don’t know.

For now what I have done is pure, and serious no-no hacking. I have commented out the code between <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[ and // ]]></script>.
Evidently it is the wrong solution, but for now it works, and I am going to find out the proper one.

UPDATE: After a bit of thinking I have decided to instead implement a more cultured temporary solution.
I have changed this line:

} else if ( (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments || is_feed()) ) {

to this line:

} else if ( (is_home() || is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments || is_feed()) ) {

Yes, I know that was the logical thing from the start.

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First I moved my sites physicaly to a US hosting company, slicehost, simply because with the Hungarian hosting company it took 3 phones and 2 e-mails to reboot the server if there was a problem.

Now, I have to change my domain name, for although I have paid and extended the registration of heszroland.hu in February, the registrar company forgot to put it into action and since Tuesday heszroland.hu gives an “Unknonw host” message. Yes, you heard it right, I have paid the fees and still it is gone. Of course the usual call them on phone, sorry, gotta contact my colleague who actually can look at the transactions – please note I have called the guy who, according to their website, is responsible for accounts, payments and domain names so it turns out that their website is out of date too -, then I had to call them again and again to ask what’s up, because they suck so bad that even when they find out something they simply don’t call their customer back.

Apparently, yes I did pay it, and yes they did not act upon it, and yes it is my fault not theirs. How so? I don’t know. So I have bought a new domain name, rolandhesz.com, and moving there. I am sorry, I tried, really.

It is painful, I will have to find a way to forward the old links somehow – it’s just sheer luck that there are not many links to my site – but I have to move away from the Hungarian providers as much as I can because frankly, they don’t really provide, and in their world customer service means the customer serves them.

In case you wonder which was this marvelous company, here is the website of Szervernet Kft.

So, finally the layout of the site has changed, at least the main page. I have to do something for the rest of September, no?
Of course there glitches, if you came here before this post came up, you have seen it fallen to pieces, because the previous post has a video in it, and the way I pull out the post for the main page cut the embedding script in half, which messed up the whole layout – unexpected un-paired <div> and </div> tags are a huge pain, but I don’t have to tell you that.

So the main page is a twisted, and reworked, and changed Arthemia2 theme, and this page will change too, Fractured bloughts will dress up in a twisted, changed, tweaked, blown up and ground down version of Mimbo theme. It will take a bit of work, and another small effort to assign a category to every single post on this site, because Mimbo is category driven, and I have not used categories for the last 2 years here. Sheer luck I don’t write too often, eh?

So that’s it and if you ask why I did write this post, I tell you because I wanted to return the main site to the normal layout, and writing a post without pics and video was the fastest and easiest way. Yes. I am lazy.

Now, all is back, unfortunately the Thumb on the Lens is totally gone – yes, I know, but I swear I thought it was backed up daily, like this one. It was not. So, my Fractured Bloughts have been saved, but the photos are gone.

And it was a surprise that when I did everything like last time, from installing the server to configuring Apache, it did not want to work. Totally baffled, only thing that gives me consolation is that as I looked for the solution on the web I realized that a lot of people have this problem.

And after the usual tips – set chmod right, set chown properly, run a2ensite, etc. – don’t solve the problem the threads fall into silence. So, it was a myffic event, I reinstalled it twice, and at last it works. Beats me why. Probably quantum.

So I would say thank you to Jason here too.

I tried to find the solution, but everyone who had the same problem got the answer: please send an email to help@disqus.com – which I did, now waiting for the answer, so far I have only good experiences with Disqus, so I think there won’t be any problems. However, I think it will be a better long term solution if they give the users a possibility to correct this problem themselves.

And working on a new heading, the title is not “fractured” enough right now, and I really like this theme. It’s just it will take some time to finish the logo.

And the books from Amazon have arrived, still in the box, but I will have to open it soon, it’s just a good feeling looking at the brown package, almost like Christmass.

And the fact that they have arrived means that about 5 or 6 months from now I will change the design again. This time made by me from scratch, if I can learn whatever is needed for that. And why wouldn’t I?

I have decided to put my photography stuff on a separate blog, Thumb on the Lens, to move all the pages that were under Fractured Bloughts to their own page, independent of this blog – like the Maps, the Media Library, the About page.

The bigger thing rebuilding and cleaning wise is on the job front. On the 1st of June I will leave my current job, and my new job will be in another country, far, far away, in the Misty Albion.
New job, new country and a new adventure – accidentally, when that happens, I will start a new blog, where I will write about working and living in the UK, mainly for my friends, family and interested people. It will be for a different audience, written in Hungarian just to mention a “small” difference.

So the summer will be a time of change, and I firmly believe that it will be for the better. After all, every change can be used to better one’s life.
With change comes cleaning – and I swear that I started the post way before I read your post about cleaning, Karen, but I fully agree with your statement:

No one wants to pack up unnecessary junk and take it into a bright shiny new place, yet so often we are unable to let go of things we no longer need.

You move you blog, I move my self. I have an advantage over you – only a limited amount of stuff fits in the suitcase and the 20kg weight limit. The rest I will have to “remote” order, and that makes it easy to leave behind unused things.

The harder thing will be the people. Friends, family are staying here, at home, but I am positive that I will make new ones.

And it’s not like I am escaping and never returning. More like in the old days, when the journeymen traveled around Europe, learning here and there returning home with the knowledge.

So, cleaning, painting, rebuilding.

The books got 4,5 stars on average, so I hope they will be good. With the web as an appendix, I am positive that I will be able to do a good design.

After all, what is a blog and a website for if not to try out new things and tinker with everything you find?

Plus, although there are a lot of nice free templates out there, but there are thousand, if not tens of thousands, and it is impossible to find anything by now. Problogger points people to seven sites with free templates, but if you check it you got hundreds of templates and it is impossible to find the one you want, there is no really good way to search them, it’s like finding a needle in the haystack – It was sheer luck that I found this Networker theme I tweaked until I ended up with the current one.

Although on Theme Viewer you can filter, just don’t forget the ‘ANY’means ‘AND’and the ‘ALL’means OR, it took me a while to figure it out. It is not that logical.

I tried Spaz, then I tried Twhirl which I really like, and now I try AlertThingy, because I like the whole Friendfeed concept, I am a bit bored with signing up to another new,revolutionary service, and then logging into each and every one of them just to see what happened.

So I now use AlertThingy, and sometimes I use Twhirl, but most of the time I go to the browser, because that is better. I can see more, it is more comfortable than trying to find anything on the AIR apps.

And for Friendfeed I mostly use the MySocial24x7, which has the amazing ability to filter content by service. So, decided to try my hand with this Adobe Air thing, and build something that is a bit of a twhirl, and a bit of a mysocial24x7 and a bit of an alertthingy. Probably will be ugly as Hell, because I am not too good with these graphic things to be honest, actually I have been trying to build a new design for my site for the last month, but never could put together something I like.

So I got a basic concept, I am looking at some Adobe Air development tools, and then off to build it.

And doing the site redesign. Slowly it takes shape, I expect that in the next 2 months I will be able to finish it with everything. And then starting a new one, until I will be content.

I am not really sure what happened, but it was down for about 70 hours until it was removed. Then, I had to get my site data back. Well, regular backups are a good idea, but you don’t learn it until you got burned. At least, I was in a really good company with this trouble.

So when I could not reach the site for two days, I went to look for a new hosting possibility. here, I want to say thank you to @darkgracie, @karenswim, @inkedmn and @solidsmack for the fast help. The winner was slicehost, ’cause I am a geek, and a control freak, so I like the idea of messing up my own site in a thousand different way.

So far I am content with it, probably because I did not mess around enough to completely screw my installation, but just wait.

So, after a long fight, I restored my site, and now I hope it will not disappear suddenly. And I promise I will make regular backups. Like every day.