Vast numbers (ok, 136) of my posts have disappeared, only to reappear elsewhere. I wanted to separate out the work-work bits of the blawg, for various reasons. Chances are, if you're reading this, you don't care, but I did want to note this historic occasion. And also make a link for my boss, who does usually read my roundups and sometimes forgets things.
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I just now unpublished a post regarding customer service, since it was not supposed to be published - it was still a draft. Nothing in there I'm ashamed of, just it's unfinished. So all two of you who pay attention to the RSS feed, that's why it's likely still in your feed reader but not on the website. It will (eventually) reappear, and I'm sure you JUST CAN'T WAIT!
Back to the irregularly scheduled blather.
Edit 04 October: I finally posted it.
Sorry about the "a bunch of new posts just became new" in the RSS feed, I didn't realize it had happened til I poked at my LJ friends page and there they were. They haven't been updated, in case anybody was wondering what wonderful new writing I'd added to previous posts.
I moved the blawg between physical hosts and also changed the base URL from /blawg/ to just /, since that's how all the Cool Kids do it and I wasn't updating anything at all besides the blawg anyway.
I figured while I was breaking things, I might as well go all the way and switch to the RC4 for MovableType 4.2. I made an unpleasant discovery that while 4.1 will backup and restore, 4.2 will only backup. So I had to export my posts from the old installation (fine, wanted to do that anyway) then import them into 4.2, but as a result I lost some settings - my pretty green! - and also some spam comments got accidentally published.
So far, I'm actually not impressed with MT 4.2 - despite its vaunted speed, and the faster CPUs in the new host, it still took 27 minutes to do a full publish run. Then again, it was starting from complete scratch, so maybe next publishes will be faster.
Hopefully this won't break MarsEdit! (It didn't.)
Update:
Changed the base dir back. Damn second thoughts. Plus it broke RSS feeds. I'm too lazy to figure out the rewrite-fu required, plus I was worried about MT stomping on stuff in the base dir. Maybe some day I'll do the reverse: redirect / to /blawg. And I have my green back, but not the BANPC blogroll at the side - I'll fix that later.
I upgraded to MT 4.1-OS just now. Aside from having to rebuild all my pages (and the tag cloud apparently getting semi-busted), I had a minor panic during the upgrade, getting this error:
undefined type: at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 1316
Fortunately, this forum post helped, but the actual lines you want in lib/MT/ObjectDriver/DDL.pm line 410 are:
} elsif ($type == SQL_FLOAT) {
return 'float';
}
not SQLFLOAT, as Jayson says. (Watch your braces!) Looks like this is only really an issue with PostgreSQL, which might explain why this bug hasn't been fixed in a release version for well over a month.
I'd have posted a correction there, but I didn't feel like navigating their registration. (Probably I could use OpenID, but I keep forgetting my username and password...)
Aside from those minor quibbles, things seem to have gone ok, so, yay me.
A co-worker said today, after giving me some information that should probably remain private, "And I don't want to see this on your weblog!"
Apparently the last couple of work-related googles he'd done had their first hits as rants here.
Maybe I don't get many comments, but at least my GOOG ratings are good.
Hey kids, long time no write. Normally I despise meta-entries of the form "sorry I haven't written in so long, I feel bad", but I assure you - I don't feel bad, and this will not be solely a meta-entry. I had a paper due this week, so all my creativity had been going into that, and then all my energy went into a system upgrade, as you'll see in my weekly roundup tomorrow.
I've been remiss in my non-Oilers watching - see above. I did catch about half of Al Arbour's return to the bench last night though, and it was a good game. The parts I watched had lots of good scoring chances at either end, and while I'm not normally an Isles fan at all (hangover from 1983) it was fitting that they won the game in the end. Linda asked me how many ex-Oilers were playing - she now knows who Mike Comrie is thanks to her celeb-news - and it was actually a bit surprising. The Isles had Comrie, Satan, Bergeron, and Guerin, while the Pens had Nasreddine, Sykora, and Laraque. Are the Islanders aping their across-the-city cousins from 1993-94? At any rate, we watched the post-game ceremony in its entirety, classy stuff. Hockey players are so guileless sometimes; Mike Sillinger was openly crying, and Billy Guerin had a good case of shiny eyes going too. That's what we love about them.
Going from love to anti-love, I've not forgotten about Reasons to Hate, and hope to have an update today. Also, I've been putting some thought into accountability on weblogs, and hope to have an interesting piece up on that this week.
I've been remiss in my non-Oilers watching - see above. I did catch about half of Al Arbour's return to the bench last night though, and it was a good game. The parts I watched had lots of good scoring chances at either end, and while I'm not normally an Isles fan at all (hangover from 1983) it was fitting that they won the game in the end. Linda asked me how many ex-Oilers were playing - she now knows who Mike Comrie is thanks to her celeb-news - and it was actually a bit surprising. The Isles had Comrie, Satan, Bergeron, and Guerin, while the Pens had Nasreddine, Sykora, and Laraque. Are the Islanders aping their across-the-city cousins from 1993-94? At any rate, we watched the post-game ceremony in its entirety, classy stuff. Hockey players are so guileless sometimes; Mike Sillinger was openly crying, and Billy Guerin had a good case of shiny eyes going too. That's what we love about them.
Going from love to anti-love, I've not forgotten about Reasons to Hate, and hope to have an update today. Also, I've been putting some thought into accountability on weblogs, and hope to have an interesting piece up on that this week.
It looks like MT rewrote an img reference I had from /img/foo to https://snowcrash.ca/img/foo, which caused things like LJ feeds to prompt for an SSL certificate. I believe I've fixed it, but tres annoying - sorry guys.
Sigh, I just realised I'm meant to be separating tags with commas, not spaces. Hopefully it won't republish the 15 or so tagged entries in the RSS feed, but I'm sure it will. Sorry about that.
Thanks to a friendly prof (yes kids, some do exist), I discovered that apparently somebody at Imprint decided this humble site was worthy of mentioning in the Frosh week edition.
Can't say I've ever really seen myself described in print as "awesome", but hey, same paragraph as the Daily Bulletin? Kinda neat.
One place they missed was the uwaterloo Livejournal community, which is a decent place to ask for and receive information. I read it regularly, post there on occasion and answer a few of the questions, as do at least a couple other staff members and a few profs.
So, welcome frosh? I didn't really notice a flood of new visitors, but hey, maybe eventually.
One place they missed was the uwaterloo Livejournal community, which is a decent place to ask for and receive information. I read it regularly, post there on occasion and answer a few of the questions, as do at least a couple other staff members and a few profs.
So, welcome frosh? I didn't really notice a flood of new visitors, but hey, maybe eventually.
