<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sep 24, 2020, at 11:06 PM, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>In _this_ post, Deirdre provided neither the acronym 'POTS' nor the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>expanation Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, but supplied a URL</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that incorporated the term.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Apologies for not getting back to the email. I had been meaning to, but I have been trying to move my site and have discovered that, to my horror, WordPress “upgraded” the “save as plain text” Markdown entries I’d been carefully generating for years so I could migrate off WP if I wanted to (and I do). (For Deirdre.net, which is currently offline pending my finishing the migration, among others)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">See: <a href="https://twitter.com/deirdresm/status/1297307526057222144">https://twitter.com/deirdresm/status/1297307526057222144</a><br><span></span><br><span>WP fucking HTML/XMLified supposed text entries in a way that can’t easily be undone without a fucking JavaScript app to unfuxxor it, and that broke another app I contribute to (that has a Node app as a feeder piece).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Worse, the entire database historically was upgraded, and far enough back there’s just no point in trying to dig back that far.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Anyhow, I have the data, but I’ve been focused on a wee install problem. At least I got all the Debian upgrades done. \o/</span><br><span></span><br><span>Worse, this has involved longer-than-average spells of sitting upright, and that’s not working very well at the moment (because POTS, the postural orthostatic kind).</span><br><span></span><br><span>For now, I’m going to keep it on WordPress while I work on the Node/JS issue, because I want richer data out than the export tool I had was giving me, so I need to tweak it. WordPress has actually been a disincentive against blogging for about two years, and it irks me.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Deirdre</div></body></html>