Duct Tape and a Prayer

Every other year, Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger runs a mini-workshop on blogging, called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. This year I’ve decided to participate, for both Duct Tape and Lost in Translation.

Day 1 of 31DBBB is Write an Elevator Pitch: a 30-second/150-word description of what the blog’s about. I was having trouble with this until I ran into a serendipitous error. Last week, I switched the address of this blog from http://www.etherjammer.com/wowblog/ to http://ducttape.etherjammer.com/; the ducttape. subdomain points at the /wowblog/ directory, so I didn’t think there would be any problem. Turns out, though, that some functions in WordPress rely on the address in the URL bar of your browser being correct to work properly; in particular, going to /wowblog/ just doesn’t work anymore – WordPress throws a 404 error! (Going to subpages, like /wowblog/feed/ to pick a random example out of the air, throws an Internal Server Error, which is even more fun.)

This isn’t a shaggy dog story, I promise. See, when you get the 404 error page from /wowblog/, you can click on the “go back to the main page” button at the bottom to get to ducttape., which solves the problem. But for some reason, this unsets the cookie that my What Would Seth Godin Do? plugin uses, and so I started seeing the tag at the top of the blog again.

In the WWSGD tag, as it happens, is an elevator pitch for Duct Tape and a Prayer.

Reproduced here, then, for your reading pleasure: the Elevator Pitch!

Welcome to Duct Tape and a Prayer, a World of Warcraft blog focusing on priests and healing, with occasional tangents into other classes and facets of World of Warcraft. In this place, in the words of Dr. Horrible, the status is not quo; my opinions can, do, and will differ from conventional wisdom, and I’ll do my best to back them up where I can. I welcome comments and discussion, but if you’re the sort of person who starts sentences with “Obviously…” or believes that there’s a One True Way to play the game, you might not be in the right place.

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