P, Secret Agent Gnocchi and Myself

And what’s more, you’ll see your comments more quickly, since I don’t have to wade through comment spam for 30 minutes every time I log in, thanks to Akismet, and other snazzy devices that I may or may not completely understand. The search feature works, the blog looks nicer and we now have the ability to post video and audio — the podcast lives! The blog is also easier for me to use, not that you care, but it means I’ll be able to upload more- and more interesting- content more regularly.

A few ghosts still haunt us:

Link and text formatting on old (2009 and earlier) entries

The old blog was entered in something called markdown syntax. This was a very fast and superior alternative to the text editor in drupal (the old content management system). Unfortunately, now that we’re in WordPress, if we load markdown, we disable other features that we really want to use, so for the time being, old posts are going to look strange and hyperlinks won’t work (although you can see the web address, you’ll just have to copy and paste it). Secret Agent Gnocchi and the Gnomes are working on this, but if this problem is going to be permanent, I will update the text in the more often-visited posts.

WordPress has human-readable URLs

When I post an entry or a photograph, it becomes an entry in a database. Drupal would just number them as they were created, so if you looked in the address bar, it might look like this: http://omnivorousfish.com/node/199. WordPress, however, takes the node’s title into consideration, and the same article’s URL becomes: http://omnivorousfish.com/gnocchi-the-finer-points/. Why do you care? Well, unless you link to or have bookmarks of any specific posts (not just omnivorousfish.com) you don’t care. If you are linked to me and I know about it, I will email you the correct links when I get around to it. If you’re looking for something you had bookmarked, the Search feature actually works now.

Comments prior to July 2009 are gone for the time being.

Yeah, we have no idea WTF happened on this one. They just disappeared. This really stinks, because a lot of the pasta posts had great dialogue in them, not to mention the fact that a lot of blogging luminaries showed up over the years to grace my little site with a comment, and now those comments are gone…and those people may not come back. I’m hoping they’re in an Uh-Huh video somewhere, and will come back in shaky pencil animation.

Older Photos are too wide for the new page format.

Again, this is a migration bug, and really a very minor one. If there’s a photo at the top of an old post, it impinges on the right block. No biggie.

Other than that, we are back on board with a new look and a new commitment to the slaughter of sacred cows in the food world. If you have any questions, please email us at make pasta at gmail dot com.

Besides, it’s not for porn, so [here it is](http://omnivorousfish.com/node/224#comment-4099).

Congratulations, me.

And Agent Gnocchi, if you’re reading this, I haven’t forgotten about you, but I haven’t stopped running practically since we got off the phone.

Listening: “Stara Ruminia” Haydamaky Haydamaky

Thanks,
Fish

Stove

Notice anything different about this range? No, it’s the same color. No, it hasn’t lost weight. No, it hasn’t quit smoking. The thing that’s different about this stove is that **the freaking oven works**.

I was carefully examining the pilot frame and the thermocouple, considering the pressure and possibly debris in the line when my super stopped by to give me a new AC bracket- thank you, Jose- and took a peek with me. He turned on the gas, gently nodded his head a few times, then took up one of my lesser knives and proceeded to whack the ever-loving shit out of all the components in the oven. Unsurprisingly, it lit right up. Jose’s diagnosis? “Stuck valve, since you never use the fucking thing.”

I haven’t calibrated yet, but, man, am I looking forward to it.

Second, to whomever has decided that boting my site with a bunch of porn ads is good for the world, I hope you get “Georgia Pacific” stamped on your head and dropped in a pit full of rabid beavers, you spineless, bottom-feeding turd. Everyone can thank this person for their comments having to be approved now.

Last but not least, I get home on Monday, and so hopefully the restaurant content will be supplemented with more cooking and agriculture comment. There are farming surprises in store, so stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by!

Fish

Rockhopper

A rockhopper penguin!

Ok, I don’t eat penguin, and I’m not aware of anyone who does, but that’s the photo I have handy right now. Here’s the fish course from last Sunday’s dinner.

Striped Bass with Tapenade and Dinosaur Kale