So I’m sitting here at the in-laws, have a while till I leave.
So I fixed all the imported blog entries from my old blog. All of the categories are now correct.
Still not sure why the old blog entries that had hyperlinks in them only show up when you click the whole entry instead of the front page, but I’m not going to worry about it. If people are going back a year and a half to read my blog entries, they’ll figure it out.
In Milwaukee, leaving in a few hours.
Think I’ll stop at Kopps for lunch and have one of the greasiest burgers money can buy. Reminds me of when I first started working for Best Buy and ate at the Kopps across the street from the Southridge store. And don’t get me started on the custard…
Camera is ready, Flickr is purchased, digital imaging software is installed on my gaming PC (what blasphemy – productivity software installed on my gaming PC, and it’s M$ software at that).
Should be fun.
Boing Boing is full of random goodness today.
First, BB has a link to Found Item Clothing, who has re-created the shirts from the movie Real Genius that Chris Knight (played by Val Kilmer wore).
Next, BB points out that William Gibson (of Neuromancer and other books’ fame) has started blogging again.
It looks like the current election cycle has gotten to him. Let me quote one of the jokes he has up on his site:
President Bush goes to an elementary school to talk about the war.
After his talk, he offers to answer questions. One little boy puts up his hand and the president asks him his name.
“I’m Billy, sir.”
“And what’s your question, Billy?”
“I have three questions, sir. Why did the US invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? And whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?”
Just then the bell rings for recess. Bush announces that they’ll continue after recess.
When they return, Bush asks, “OK, where were we? Question time! Who has a question?”
Another little boy raises his hand. The president asks his name.
“I’m Steve, sir.”
“And what’s your question, Steve?”
“I have five questions, sir. Why did the US invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? Whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden? Why did the recess bell go off twenty minutes early? And what the heck happened to Billy?”
Well, I went ahead and purchased a Pro account of Flickr for this weekend.
In testing the service out I used 99% of my allowed bandwidth (oops!). This jumps me from 10 MB of bandwidth to 1 gig. That should be plenty.
This should be fun, charging the new camera up now.
After some configuration hassles, I’ve added the Wiki!.
I even threw a FAQ up and added the link to the sidebar.
The configuration hassles were minimal, mostly involved re-reading the directions five times to enable mysql support with encrypted password. Then I had to change a setting in the php.ini file. The error code was a little misleading that it made me think it was a Wiki configuration problem, instead of PHP, but some googling around got me the answer.
The funny thing about it is the Wiki comes with a number of differently themes to choose from (I have MacOSX up now). The built-in WordPress theme for Wiki was the exact same WordPress theme I was using on the blog. Until yesterday that is when I changed. But it’s staying the way it is.
Can’t edit post categories in IE 6. Worked fine in Firefox last night. Categories show up fine for new posts.
Dumb dumb dumb.
Think I may install a Wiki tonight to run my FAQ and wishlist.
Patched my version of WordPress, forgot the kids. Will do that tomorrow.
Have to think about creating flickr accounts for them. Or finding some really, really good Gallery hacks, but man Flickr has blown me away.
Except I went and used all my bandwidth this month. Whoops, need to blog pictures this weekend still.
Let’s see if this flickr thing is working and embarass some folks.
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
What started as a small project finished 2+ hours later with great results.
Started with getting the domain (MovieTuesday.com setup and hosted on silwenae.com.
That has had me thinking about the engine required to power it, and WordPress has a small security update out. Installed that here on the blog, and then installed the Kubrick template as the style I was using wasn’t doing that much for me. I dig Kubrick, it even comes with the Photoshop files to add the header picture, we’ll have to see if the Gimp can open those. If not, the readme has the file dimesnions, but I’m not much of an artist anyway. I would like to get links along the bottom of the header picture like the author used.
We (Kelly had to help me) spent a half hour trying to update my links in the sidebar, had to flesh out some PHP errors, but in the end it’s working, which gives me hope for the other things I want to add (Random photo’s, wishlist, desktop screenshot, now reading and listening, list goes on…).
And last but definitely not least, I’ve strugged over the last month with my former blog running B2evolution to get the XML / RSS output to be XML compliant so WordPress would import all my old posts.
Upgrading my old blog installation to the latest and greatest of B2Evo always resulted in database errors. I must have gone through that half a dozen times the last time I tried a month ago, and the kicker was whatever error the database schema encountered, I wasn’t able to delete the database when done. Tried again tonight, no luck. Being the smart feller I am, I installed the second latest verions of B2Evo, upgraded, and what do you know, the import took! It only took the last 5 entries I had done last November, spent 5 to 10 minutes figuring out how to get all posts to show, imported again and the magic box worked.
I’m guessing there were about 70 posts from the old blog from Jan ’03 to Nov ’03. I’ll need to go back through them over time and assign them categories, they’re all in the General category at the moment. The other odd thing is the links don’t look like they worked when scanning the posts (pick a month) – but if you actually click a post for the details, the links did work. So if I’m really motivated, I can fix those too through the edit portion.
I’m just happy it’s finally imported! Even if I had a huge break between posting, I have my evil company posts, my rants on radio (with the Rev105 tribute). EFF support way back when, and some early looks at Howard Dean.
In other site news, I registered for a Flickr account. I may try using that to photo blog the gaming party this weekend in Chicago. I’m uploading the Jan ’03 LAN Party pictures as we speak to try it out.
