Tag: Auto blog updates

Likes and dislikes…

I needed to do a blog to see if this nutty automatic email program is working again, and even though Joe G. and I have a rich repertoire to draw from as far as blog topics go, I thought I’d briefly hit a few likes and dislikes to check out the email notification system. We usually try to limit ourselves to one blog a day to keep your email inbox from getting overwhelmed, so bear with me while I test this system.

I’ll do two or three blogs today to see if I can get this thing sorted. Patience, my friends.

The first is a dislike. I dislike mindless software updates, as apparently occurred with the Icegram software (that’s the plug-in we use for the auto email update feature). Something updated, it stopped working, and then it dumped half the names on our list. I could tell you if you haven’t received an email from us and you should have to let us know, but that would be like asking all the kids who aren’t in class to raise their hands, and that would be about as mindless as a software update when everything was working fine before the update. Ah, here we go.

Hey, if you want to be on the list for automatic email updates, please add your email here:

Stand by, there’s more to follow in a subsequent blog or two.

Auto Email Updates Are Back!

BajaBound, Arjiu and Dajiu are. Stay tuned!  This photo is from a 2008 trip with good buddy Joseph Lee, looking out over Bahia Concepcion.  I bought the ’06 Triumph Tiger you see above from Douglas Motorcycles, and it was a grand machine for touring Baja.

It’s been a challenging time, but the WordPress automatic email blog notifications are back on line.  I’d like to be able to tell you why the “improvement” caused things to stop working, but I can’t.  The people who create the software for this feature (they call it a widget, which is probably and insult to widgets worldwide) advised deleting the update and rolling back to the original version, but that didn’t work initially, either.  So we waited a few days (especially after seeing the help board explode with other bloggers complaining about the failure), tried the rollback to the unimproved version again, and voilà, it worked.

Our apologies for the screwup.  Eh, these things happen.  If you want to sign up for blog update notifications (and we think you should), the widget is in the upper right corner of this page if you’re viewing the ExNotes blog on a laptop, and it’s at the end of this blog on a mobile phone.  You might want sign up for two reasons…one, the blog is great, and two, we’re giving away another moto adventure book at the end of this month to one of the folks who get our automatic updates.

Stay tuned, mi amigos, because there’s more good stuff coming your way real soon.  Uncle Joe and I are headed into Mexico next week, and you sure don’t want to miss any of the Baja updates!