June 2011 Archives

After almost 2 years of problems with various bits of my blog software I think I have it pretty much totally working.  Due to perl and some coding that give pretty much no error messages I have had lingering problems since June 2009.  Today as I was upgrading I stumbled across not so much a fix (since I am still not sure of exact source of problem) but a workaround.  I still have one other quirk, but luckily it isn’t preventing me from posting / updating the site.  Unfortunately it seems the Movable Type platform has been slowly dying as other platforms like wordpress improve around it.  Mostly I am too lazy / worried about switching platforms to make a jump.  Maybe the next server build I do I will switch.

For those that are curious about my issue check out this thread on a forum going back to the beginning of the problem.

Another recent anniversary is the fact that as of Memorial Day I have lived in the same house for 6 years.  This is by far the longest consecutive time I have lived in one place in my life.  Next year I will match the record of 7 years in one house, but that was separate 3 + 4 year stints.  Then it will be quite a while to match the amount of time I spent in Northern Virginia in general which is about 13 years spread out between 1984 and 2005.

As usual I am late on this anniversary. In May of 2004 on a server a couple of servers ago I created this blog on Movable Type 2 platform. Today I finished upgrading to MT 5.1. 7 years + 1 month ago this blog started and since I have posted 663 posts. Who knows maybe someday I will blog more in the future.