I am happy to Welcome our new author, TJR McDowell to The Errol Flynn Blog! I am certain he has some great stories to tell us …
— David DeWitt
Author Archive
Mail Bag! Register on this Blog!
17
Nov
We got an email today saying our Registration process is a bit muddy! I think this is the result of different browsers at work, but let’s go over it:
Basically, it is a two step process:
Click on Register on the far right-hand corner of the blog, under Meta.
You will be presented with a WordPress Security Popup that asks you to input the temp username: errolflynn, with temp password efb.
Click Submit to got to the WordPress login page and enter your details.
You will receive an email confirming your registration.
After this, the popup will also appear whenever you log back in, and are sent to your normal login page!
Note: registering for the RSS Feed is not where you register to become a member of the blog, a common error …
— David DeWitt
Jan van der Vliet Rocks his IN LIKE FLYNN t-shirt from Rory Flynn!
13
Nov
Jan lives in Spain where Errol was indeed In Like Flynn …
— David DeWitt
Mail Bag! Charge of the Light Brigade and Wiggling Toes!
12
Nov
This from Joe Maletta who points out a blooper in Errol’s Charge of the Light Brigade:
Joe Maletta One of Flynn’s best! The young boy is Scottie Beckett who played Perma the son of J. Carrol Nash’s character. Puran Singh. There is a film blooper when Puran finds and holds his dead son after the massacre at Chukoti. Flynn is trying to console him and as he is doing so, the “dead” son is Wiggling his toes! A little levity aside during a sad moment.
Thanks, Joe!
Scottie Beckett with Errol
— David DeWitt
Rare Errol Flynn Audio Recordings, plus Special Bonus!
09
Nov
Today, I am adding a special offer to The Errol Flynn Blog! It is a fun way to enjoy 22 rare Errol Flynn audio recordings, plus a special “Surprise” bonus item. (A digital copy of 36 vintage newspaper articles from a privately collected series of Flynn articles published overseas almost 60 years ago … )
I have created a Menu to use to navigate the pages, and included individual audio players to listen to the shows and rare audio recordings. There is also an audio descriptions page. There are so many more Errol Flynn fans now than ever before on social media that might not have access to these recordings, so here is a fun way to collect and enjoy them on your desktop computers! Take a look … Click on the image!
— David DeWitt
You May Have Noticed?
08
Nov
You may have noticed the NOT SECURE warning that appears in Chrome browsers in the address line of our blog? That only means that the security certificate of the site is slightly less secure (http:// … versus https:// …) and Chrome is letting us know this basically useless fact. I am told by our host PressHarbor (the wonderful John Kagan) that our blog will be moved up the list to transfer to our new home, and a free Security Certificate will be provided to us that will eliminate the Not Secure warning …
Thanks, John!
— David DeWitt
WU MING from 2006! Flynn & Erben, The Chicago Review
03
Nov
Mail Bag! Thanks to Jan van der Vliet …
The Chicago Review, 2006
— David DeWitt
The Errol Flynn Blog Migration in November!
01
Nov
Mail Bag to The Errol Flynn Blog from our hosting outfit at PressHarbor:
“Thank you for your patience, at last we are ready to begin migrations of all accounts to our new hosting platform.
“Our new platform will continue to be based on Plesk, so all of your existing accounts and passwords will migrate as-is, but this newer version of Plesk and the underlying hardware, software, and infrastructure updates will offer:
– increased security
– improved and guaranteed performance
– free SSL certificate via Let’s Encrypt
– more current versions of PHP
There’s more to come, especially for those of you with multiple sites, but the first phase will be to migrate all sites to the new platform by the end of November.”
The migrations are set to begin November 3, until the end of the month, and we do not yet know what dates our blog will move but we will get that information before it actually happens, I think. It will involve changing our dns server information for our domain name so if, one day, you cannot reach the blog, this will be why. I am told content creation might be interfered with during the the actual move, so let’s all be aware of the the situation and I will keep you as updated as possible …
— David DeWitt
