Casting Out Demons
Seems more like small, errant knaves, perhaps little gremlins, or even the typical “fox in the henhouse.”
The problem? My horoscopes for 3-18-2025. The details? Start by reading what I wrote for Sagittarius, just minor issues.
Top of the morning e-mail, two items of note, one?
Hello Kramer,
The subject line of your latest horoscopes reads for 03-18-2025. The links in the body of your newsletter are to 03-11-2025. Ditto for your website. I was going to read the current one there. I guess Mercury Retrograde is really taking you for a spin.
The second is a back-up e-mail address that gets the same newsletter, and I didn’t notice, but the headline did read “3-18” while the body copy was “3-11,” and yes, Mercury is definitely most retrograde.
Before I start to try and unwind whatever went wrong with the weekly newsletter delivery? I have to review the triggers and workflow.
I use an astrology (star) chart set for the night’s sky for the beginning of the week with one for the end of the week superimposing one upon the other. Then, there’s the ephemeris for certain data points, and finally, I’ll adjust, as need be, to fine-tune certain ingress and egress astronomical data.
For the last few years, I’ll write straight into a word-processor/publishing app, works across all the systems I use.
Now it gets tricky: I tend to set an odd moment for the publication time. This is from two or three sources, one is simple numerology voodoo (Feng Shui), one of from a purely technical observation, and in part, the backend software requires an extra step, which is like a final proof-read check-mark.
So from word processing software straight to website publication, and from there? After much backend tweaking, I got an e-mail distribution source that picks up the website’s RSS feed, and sends it to the weekly list, from the site’s horoscope feed.
Casting Out Demons
The website’s actual, physical server, as I understand it, is West Coast, the e-mail and the e-mail listserv is East Coast. Just had a time change, too, did we save the daylight?
The horoscopes are scheduled for 3 AM and the e-mail scraper was set for 4 AM. Bet there’s the problem.
Up until now, this has been one of the joys of this kind of set-up: only one person in charge, and only one person to blame. I tend to try and keep this as simple as possible, too. I’ll see what turns up.
“We are aware of the issue and are continuing to monitor the situation.”
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Portable Mercury Retrograde
