Category Archives: Administrivia

I finally got around to adding MT-Search, a nice consequence of upgrading to Movable Type version 2.64 and converting my database to MySQL. It’s over there on the sidebar, between Archives and Categories. Seems to work nicely, but please do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve just noticed that someone has hacked my blogroll. I actually have two accounts at Blogrolling.com, and both of them – what you normally see on my index page, and what you see on my Full Blogroll page – have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All righty, I have installed and enabled Jay Allen’s MT Blacklist. It was easy to install and helped me find and kill an old piece of spam, so I’m a happy blogger. If for some reason you encounter any problems … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The clearinghouse for stuff related to Jay Allen’s comment spam disabler is here. Note that you can submit spams you’ve received for possible inclusion into the master list, something which will help others as well as yourself. If you’re feeling … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With a big assist from Michael Croft, I finally got the Movable Type 2.64 upgrade installed, and as an extra added bonus got migrated from the BerkeleyDB to MySQL. I think I’m going to have fun playing with MySQL, which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is it just me, or has Sitemeter been sucking rocks the past few days? The reports are often unavailable, and I lost about half a day’s hits on Sunday. Not such a big deal, but my blog at least seems … Continue reading → Continue reading →

More comment spams, from a different jerk. The IPs to ban are: 64.191.20.166 216.228.168.110 206.163.168.8 I’m going to keep track of these in the original post for eacy reference. Look for a link on the sidebar. Continue reading →

Grrr. Last night I was hit by a comment spammer, who injected an ad for his scummy website all over my blog. His IP address is 65.77.116.28, and the IP address of his accursed website is 207.44.162.33, so all you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve done a little blogroll maintenance, as you can see. I’d been unhappy with the state of my blogroll – its length made the sidebar less useful than it could have been as well as discouraging me from considering additions, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The following is an enumeration of the philosophy and policies of this weblog. A link to it will be placed on the sidebar for easy reference in the future. I’ve avoided having one of these for a long time, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve gone over a year and a half on this blog without any kind of policy statements, but after the recent dustup I suppose I can’t avoid it any longer. I’m checking out other blog policy pages for inspiration, starting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love Movable Type’s categories, but every once in awhile I come to the realization that they’re not doing the job for me. Categories are most useful for me when I want to search through my archives for a specific … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you tried to leave or read a comment here after about 9 PM last night, you probably saw an “Invalid Entry ID” error message. Took me long enough to figure out that Dreamhost had changed server names on me, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As you can see, I’m back up, following a snafu with my webhost. Took longer than I would have liked to get resolved, but that’s not matter now. I’m back and feeling much better now. Thanks to the following for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Links to the A Few Things About Me and Texas Political Blogs posts have been added to the sidebar for your convenience. There’s a total of 36 political blogs listed, though of course some are more political than others. Check … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happy New Year, everyone! With the start of 2003 comes the first anniversary of this blog, a distinction I share with Matthew Yglesias. I managed (just barely) to finish importing and publishing all of my old Blogspot archives before the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To those of you who tuned in this evening, that was not an intentional site redesign. I was dinking around in my main index and managed to screw it up, thus causing the site to load with no style sheet. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to my webhost, everyone on my server has been moved to a new box. They’re still not sure why the old one was failing, but so far everything looks good on the new one. Thus, I can post normally … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have heard from my web host that one of their servers (namely, the one that I’m hosted on) has been having sporadic problems running CGI scripts. This has the effect of causing “Internal Server Error” messages to pop up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Couldn’t get logged into Movable Type until now due to CGI errors. My web host still hasn’t answered my email, but at least the problem is solved. Let’s hope it stays that way. Continue reading →

Inspired by this article in the MIT Technology Review (sadly, only a preview is available here), I’ve finally decided to enable Trackback. If a fellow MT user would care to ping me so I can verify I’ve done this correctly, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Slowly but surely I’ve started to import my Blogspot archives. July is now fully in place. I’ll be doing this one month at a time. Since I want to add categories to everything, and in some cases need to update … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve received feedback that this site doesn’t render well under the Opera browser, apprently due to a known problem with CSS. I’m going to dig through the MT support forum to see if there are any tips, but if you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve now had two requests to bump up the font size in the blog content area, so I’ve changed it from 11px to 12px in the style sheet. I hope this is better. As always, any constructive feedback is appreciated. Continue reading →

I had a bit of difficulty implementing categories fully. The sticking point had to do with changing the footer on my entries to contain the category name and link to that category’s archive page, as well as adding a list … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jim Henley apparently didn’t much care for the light gray color of my text, and proffered the hope that I’d change from this default MT color to something else. Well, I did a little research on cascading style sheets, which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve had some requests for details on the steps it took me to transition everything to the new domain and blog editor. I’ve still got a number of things on my to-do list – importing my Blogger archives, getting categories … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ginger and Ann were kind enough to inform me, via comments and blog entry, that my permalinks were bollixed up. It’s fixed now – I had a bad directory structure listed in my config. Sorry about that! Continue reading →

There’s a kerfuffle over at Brad DeLong‘s weblog concerning some rules he’s decided to enforce in his comments. Basically, Brad has said that he expects commenters to be polite, and if they’re not he’d do something about them. For some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thanks to everyone for the web hosting feedback. I’ve commenced research, and hope to take action soon. Count your days, Blogspot. I’ve got your permalink problems right here… Continue reading →

OK, this time I mean it. I’ve had it with Blogger archive problems and Blogspot unreliability. I’m ready to get my own domain and move this thing onto its own server so I can run Movable Type. I would very … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Blogger sure picked a great time to give me permalink problems, when I’ve been getting cited by Ginger, Scott, O-Dub, Atrios, and Kevin. Republishing my archives seems to have fixed the problem, but I’m still leery. Anyway, thanks to everyone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, my blogroll on the left has finally been converted to BlogRolling. All the blogs that are fit to link are there. I’ve officially given up on Mickey Kaus, who hits the quinella of defending Ann Coulter and getting the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Comments have been successfully added. Thanks to Larry for letting me use his. I’m still planning on migrating to Moveable Type in the near term, so this system is not permanent, but what the heck. I’m still not sure if … Continue reading → Continue reading →