Victory is mine

Just a few changes around here, most of which I hope you don’t even notice.

I wasted three hours trying to upgrade to MT 3.121 last night [sorry I couldn’t call you, Jen, I broke the Internet]. No luck. Hung up on some upgrade scripts and an “invalid login” error.

Went to sleep all pissed off that I couldn’t figure it out.

Woke up this morning and, with the aid of a bowl of Life cereal for sustenance, managed to fix it in 10 minutes. The problem was twofold: I hadn’t actually run the upgrade scripts, and permissions for those upgrade scripts were not set correctly. By the way, if anyone tells you to “run the upgrade script,” what they mean is “point your browser to that URL, dumbass.” I finally figured that one out.

The feeling of triumph I got when I saw the phrase “Upgrade appears to be successful” was a euphoric high not often matched by anything else I accomplish on a daily basis.

Anyway, boring story short, one of the changes you may notice is that I’m asking commenters to register. This should keep spam to a minimum, I hope.

Also, I’m debating killing the geekblog — I think it’s outlived its usefulness. So there may be a little geekblog-shaped hole in the Internet soon.

There’s probably half a dozen other little winky things I’d like to do, too, but I’m not locking myself into anything, and will try not to bore you to death with the details.

I’ll now return to my regularly scheduled life.

October 29, 2004 | Filed Under geek

Comments

2 Responses to “Victory is mine”

sweetney on October 29th, 2004 2:34 pm

i’d thought about upgrading from 3.0 — is there much excitement in the new version? so much so that i should feel i’m missing out if i don’t update?
MB on October 30th, 2004 11:52 am

Well, three main differences, so far as I can see: Ability to dynamically generate pages, ability to register commenters, and a shiny new interface.

To tell you the truth, you’re probably fine where you are!