Category: Tech

I Broke Google!

Or rather, Google thinks the site is broken. A workaround, if not a fix, for the problem with Google refusing to index this site seemed to have finally taken hold. Everything looked okay on the Google Search Console, and all I had to do was wait a few days for Google to crawl through everything.

But the blog’s technical problems must be too serious even for Google. The process of crawling through everything seems to have busted the search console. It thinks at some level the site can’t be found.

Update: Now it’s working again. I checked the Google Search Console this morning and the error was still there. When I checked an hour later it was working. All I did in between was have a muffin and instant coffee, but I guess that must have fixed it! 😉

Redirected into Oblivion

I have to recreate this post, because the site was restored back to the point immediately before the entry.

The past two hours have been spent on the phone with Bluehost, trying to figure out why Google refuses to index this site. Google says it’s due to a redirection.

Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and the scrappy newcomer DuckDuckGo, are both indexing and searching the site without a problem, but apparently Google has a requirement that isn’t being met. Which means Google is saying, “you are dead to me.”

With any luck Neal (or Neil), at Bluehost has done something that might help. For now I’m just happy to be working again.

P.S. Another problem that I hope won’t return. “Forbidden — You don’t have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”

In Defense of Audio

Something from today’s Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/18/bidens-bogus-claim-that-afghanistans-military-was-larger-than-nato-allies/

“Roughly 40% of the total [300,000 security forces] consisted of Afghan National Police (ANP) whose forces varied sharply in quality, were largely conventional police and could not play an effective paramilitary role or properly hold even supposedly secure areas,” writes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for the strategic and International Studies in a report published this week on the Afghan military’s collapse.

Someone named Anthony Cordesman also wrote this:

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/author/anthony-cordesman

To the extent that new surround recordings exist, they now seem to consist largely of SACDs from a few leading U.S. audiophile recording firms like Reference Recordings and a number of European firms that have helped keep SACD alive after Sony largely abandoned it, and that are now beginning to experiment with other methods of surround recording.

Coincidence or the same guy? Same guy. This is a question that’s been asked and answered in audio circles for decades.