What the hell went wrong with my journal yesterday afternoon, here's what happened (warning: Geeky language and technical data to ensue):
Okay, I was doing some minor updating to my portfolio on my site, adding some shit probably nobody will look at. For some reason, the damn software application I was using for my updating (Dreamweaver) was acting strange. So, I'd make a change, save...and essentially post (the more technical term would be FTP- File Transfer Protocol) the file over to the server.
Sidebar Tangent: Why do I feel like Dr. Evil explaining his "laser"?
Anyways, no matter what I did, the joint wouldn't post, or FTP properly. So basically I did a FTP function where I physical drag my file from my local window, to the server window and included all my dependent files.
Translation: A dependent file is something like a graphic or sound file. You don't need to update a graphic or sound file once it's on your server unless you've done something to it...which I hadn't...or so I thought.
What happened was I must have made some goofy change to an "include" file a long time ago and never FTP'd the joint across. The include file is my set of links across the top and bottom of my pages. The purpose of an "include" file is to minimize work. I know that I need to have the same set of links on all my pages, so I make an include and insert that wherever it's needed. This way, the file sits on the server and doesn't slow down download speed. The cool thing is, if I change something in that include file, it'll be propagated throughout the site wherever I had that include. So instead of manually changing the links on every page...I used an include once and make changes to that. Get it? Okay, I must have done something goofy a long time ago to the include and saved it, so when I sent my dependent files across with the file I manually updated...it changed the link to my journal. What you guys were lookin at was basically an old jacked up archive of my journal. So, problem is fixed...carry on.
PS- I'll try to not do anything tech- geek like that again for at least a month, okay?
PPS- Bru, good lookin' on the heads up...didn't even know at the time that my journal was lookin crazy. I found out right before I left work, basically. Aight...One!