Category: Around the Web

So, I updated to MT 3.3. I guess if you stopped by recently you saw that it didn’t go so well. I royally fucked my site up, had a slight panic attack, relaxed and then re-loaded the thing from scratch. Thank goodness all the important stuff is saved in MySQL. I’m now back up and running. The only thing I am kind of bummed about is that most of the plugins I was using have not yet been updated for 3.3. Hopefully updates for the important ones will be coming soon, like the one for my blogroll. I’m so glad that it’s Friday!

By the way, I know I’m having some issues with the comments and I’m working on that. But, if you find anything else funky please let me know. Comments on this post seem to be working, but not the old ones.

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Sometime in the next couple of days I plan on upgrading my site to Movable Type 3.3.  So, if you come here and everything looks really jacked up, that’s why.  Chances are my templates and stuff will have to be reworked a little to fit with the new system.  In the meantime, I’ll probably be doing most of my blogging over here.

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So the people at Vox have now upgraded all starter accounts to standard and are doing away with starters.  If you get an invite now, you get full access.  So, I have 4 more standard invites to give away.  For some reason I haven’t had too many takers.  If you are interested, leave me a comment.  I prefer to give them to people I know, but I’ll consider those I don’t know too.

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I’m in a little bit of a funk today.  I’m not sure why I just feel rather blah.  I don’t want to work.  I don’t want to write, but at the same time I do.  I’m just confusing myself.  Perhaps it is due to the very small amount of sleep I’ve gotten over the last couple of days.  Maybe I just had to many days off.  I just don’t feel like the usual me.

I think my database that holds all of my blog entries is feeling crappy too as it keeps giving me error messages.  I’m working with my hosting company to try to fix it, but I’m kind of scared of what might happen.  If things start getting screwy around here, you can bet I’m sitting in a dark corner somewhere fighting back the tears.  I love my blog.  I don’t want it to be screwy.  I was trying to add a new plug-in that would allow me to password protect certain entries when I discovered the problem.  I don’t think I did anything to screw it up.  I hope it gets fixed soon.

Speaking of how much I love my blog, this entry by Theresa really got me thinking the other day about how I view my own blog.  I’ve been finding lately that some days I really need to write and some days I don’t (not so much here lately).  Blogging for me is a both a hobby and an emotional release.  It is a record of my life.  It shouldn’t be about how many comments or page visits I get.  I love the comments, but that’s not the reason I do it.  My blog is an expression of me, of who I am inside.  This is where I keep it real.  In a way I think that my blog has helped me come out of my shell a little bit.  The more comfortable I get here, the more comfortable I am in real-life interactions.

I had more to write about this topic, but the words are just not flowing right now.  Maybe I’ll re-visit it later.  Blah. 

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I’m not ignoring you. Really, I’m not.  It is just that I’ve been so busy on Flickr, Vox, and MySpace I haven’t had much extra time.  Also, I’ve been trying to get my new laptop set up at work.  You know all of the copying, loading, transferring files and things.  I’ve been very, very busy.

I was hoping to catch up this weekend, but guess what?  Zach has the chickenpox.  Turns out he got exposed just before we went out of town.  We’ll see how that goes.  So far he’s not too fussy.  I do have Monday and Tuesday off work so that is a little promising. Maybe I’ll catch up then.

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