Don't look at me, man, I've been at this for about four years now and I'm still not entirely sure how to even spell blawg.

I'll take you up on that one...

For all the scorn heaped upon it, blogger has never let me down.

Good gravy, youve got do something Mitch. My last comment was rejected because I dared put the letter "p" next to the letter "l".

(Shakes head)

I know. I know.

Mitch,

If you're still struggling with that install, I'd be happy to try to help. With our without the quid.

Be well,
Bob

I'm good with Perl. I'm good with databases. I've read a Javascript book. I've never run a blog so I only have the 2 out of 3 thing going for me.

Throw your source code at me in private email and I'll spend some time over the weekend between that and the WordPress documentation. I might see something that stands out, even though I'm not a blog expert.

Just a random guess right now with no experience at this beyond general software troubleshooting, I'm guessing that if it is loading inconsistantly, the random factor here would be how fast it takes to access the database or some other time-intensive operation between the time the page is requested and the time the page is displayed. If you're not waiting for the data to fully load from the database before attempting to display it, you're going to get something weird. Chase through your documentation and see if you have to wait for a status flag or test a completion state or an end of pipe or end of file condition, or need to change a call to the database or pipe or other resource call so that it blocks (waits for completion) before proceeding.

I sympathize with you Mitch. It took me a month to move to wordpress, working on it pretty much every night, with David complaining every day about how it wasn't worth it to switch if it took that long and was that much trouble. I still didn't succeed in importing the entire old blog over.

I've got a hunch that the problem is your sidebar. Disable it (or delete everything in it) and see what happens.

The sidebar is back. Maybe it's an evil, external influence.

Geeez Mitch,

Your blog goes down more often than a meth whore at a frat party.

Is this a sidebar I see before me?
It's URL's at my hand?
Come, let me click thee.
I see thee not, yet thou vex me still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, viewable
by sight as well as by code? Or art thou but
a sidebar of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?

Oooooh! Poetry! Let me try...!

There was a sidebar from Nantucket...

Nevermind. I forgot this was a family friendly blog...

happy to offer help, just let me know if want me to try.

mike.mathews@berkeley-domecq.com
mike.smith@berkeley-domecq.com