I hope everyone had a good long weekend. (I played golf--for the first time in about twenty years. I shot a 72! for nine holes)
The site was down for about a day. I had to move it to a new host, and blah and blah blah blah.
I didn't upgrade MT, because 2.661 is no longer available--unless there's a way to get it that I'm not aware of. I just picked the whole thing up and dropped it in its new home, and it seems to work OK. If you come across any bugs or see anything wrong, let me know.
We're also still accepting offers for a site redesign. If anyone wants to try their hand at it, let us know.
As you were...
Welcome back aboard, bro! That liver of yours has done been mollycoddled enough for the time being and needs to be reminded what it was invented for!
P.S. It's one of the dark, depressing little secrets of life that everyone always congratulates you when you go on the wagon - with the inveterate boozers cheering the loudest, falling off their stools from over-punching the air - but nobody raises a glass when, after having tamed the beast, you decide you deserve a couple of beers.
Meanwhile, the heat is on; my poor little country is about to be invaded by millions of barbarous football hooligans, creating monstrous queues at bar counters everywhere and I need to know what savvy monkey-lovin' ladies and gentlemen do to cool down of a hot summer's day. Any ideas, punch recipes, secret pleasures, good contacts in the state-of-the-art NASA air-conditioning industry? Cooling music?
1. First, you put the record in the machine...
2. Then you begin with the refreshments already!
Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
--Thomas Carew
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
--Matthew Arnold (1822-88).
Guys are always patting my bald head for luck, pinching
my belly to hear my girlish laugh
--Homer Simpson
So what do you think?
I know. It looks silly. Let me explain....
My brother recently came down with a touch of the cancer. Last month, they removed his left testicle. This week, he started chemotherapy--just to make sure they got everything. (HE'S GOING TO BE FINE. The cure rate for this type of C is somewhere around 95%.)
Anyway, on Sunday he made with the shaving of the head. I followed suit--he's got enough to worry about without being the silliest looking member of the Poulos family.
No runs, no hits, no walks, no base runners at all.
Let us pause a moment, and reflect.
Hi. It's me.
It's been a long time.
How've you been?
As some of you may have noticed, I've been missing from the scene for a while. I've had a lot going on in my personal life--mostly good--which has kept me busy. Things still haven't settled down--in fact, they're about to get worse--but I'm trying to refocus my attention to my interests on the web. Which includes you, of course.
Anyway, my point. From a housekeeping point of view, there are two big tasks I have on my list for this site. The first is to move it from one hosting plan to another, which (for reasons too mundane to numerate here) would involve physically moving the site and the database. That's a big deal, since it includes not just this site, but the blogfucker site and peaceblogs.org. I've been putting it off until Six Apart released MovableType 3.0, so I could upgrade at the same time. That was task number two--the upgrade.
Well, it turns out that Ben and Mena are charging for MT3, if you have more than one author or more than three blogs. This site currently has 47 authors. Obviously, most of them don't post regularly, but their top non-commercial license tops out at nine authors (and costs $150). I'm sure we could work it out with Six Apart to customize a license, but it would certainly cost even more.
What does this mean for us? I don't know. We don't *need* to upgrade right now, so we can wait and see. I can still move the site to the new hosting plan--I hope to do it this week (or maybe over the weekend), so expect some downtime.
As far as the upgrade goes, we could:
a) pony up the dough for an MT license
b) switch to a free service
or
c) write our own content management system to power the site
Personally, I would prefer option b) or c). Since interest appears to be lagging on the site right now, I'd rather not buy a license.
What do you all think?
And while we're at it, I wonder if we shouldn't use this opportunity to address any other issues that have been on people's minds. Is there anything we/I can do to restore interest in the site? Or should we bother? Are there any issues, technical or cultural, that anyone would like to address?
Fire away.
