The Google+ Project is here!.. or “Arriving” is a better way to put it. The signup form on the obligatory keep me posted slash let me beta it thing is going to a 500 error. I know I went crazy about Wave, and I was optimistic about Buzz, but I really think this one might go somewhere. I just read a report today about how users are spending much more time on Facebook and other social media than the rest of the web, so the web probably really needs a shot of adrenaline.

I’m all about new formats and keeping up with the times, but the last thing we want is for the Internet to be locked up in a cluster of annoying walled-gardens where nothing is indexed well and nothing is open (like Facebook). Good write-up on Google+ at Mashable.

If you know me, you know that I live nowhere near the Jonathan Levine gallery, where Brett Amory has an upcoming show. That said, if you want to get a peek at some paintings made with luscious negative space, head over to the Work section of his website.

I have been having a range of problems, both with this site and another, dealing with WordPress (maybe this has something to do with version 3?)

Client called and was getting a blank page after hitting Update, Publish, Save or any other type of action in WordPress backend. Looked it up, and people were saying it has something to do with the functions.php file.. specifically removing a blank space on line 83.

I did that on client’s site, and no change. Then, I saw that one needs to make sure <?php leads the function.php file, and ?> ends it. I did that, and got more errors.

I can’t recall at one point I got this one:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/username/public_html/wp-content/themes/default/functions.php:3) in /home/username/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890

I looked at that file, and it looked very strange. The first line was basically the middle of a php command. I put <?php and ?> at the front and back of that file, and it made everything look right (as far as php commands opening and closing), but I got a massive php error when trying to load the site, which was completely down at this point.

Things got much worse before they got better as I tried to make the changes recommended to functions.php and pluggable.php. I even started to file a service ticket to have everything wiped out by the host and reverted to their last backup. As a last effort, I created a new site/project in Dreamweaver, downloaded the newest version of WordPress, and put everything in that new public_html folder except the wp-content folder, updated database info in the new wp-config, and uploaded all.

I was pleasantly surprised when I refreshed the home page of the broken site, and everything was working again.