Woke up this morning to a house full of natural gas. One of the cats managed—at some unknown time last night—to open up one of the burners on the range. Think the only thing that saved us was that we had windows open to cool the house down.
MovableType 4.2: Launch!
Wed 13 August 2008, 2:10 AM ⁄⁄ 4 Comments
I’m one of the first kids on the block to be playing with Movable Type 4.2, I’d bet. My upgrade went smoothly until I tried to publish a new post, when I got a nice error about using a MTArchiveNext tag without a date context. Saywhat? My templates worked a moment ago.
Long story short (and written mostly for Google): MT 4.2 automatically added a handful of “archive mappings” to the Entry Listing template. Those archive mappings include ones (like category archives—which I’ve never used) that do not provide a date context, causing my date-based tags to fail.
Aaaaanyway, let me know if anything else broke. Maybe next time I’ll think twice before trying to upgrade something at midnight…
:shock:
Wed 13 August 2008, 12:25 AM ⁄⁄ Comment
I’ve been hitting my head against Rails, on and off, for the last couple years. I’ve read two books on the framework (not to mention a book or two on Ruby), and started a few Rails apps… which never got beyond some copied-and-pasted code that only half-worked.
Tonight, a frickin’ eternity after I started this process, I looked at my current code and wondered: why is that a string instead of a symbol?
My next thought was holy crap, this kinda makes sense. Afterward I was able to figure out the logic behind the code I copied and pasted, and was even able to fix some of the things that had been failing. After that, I took a victory lap.
Hitting your head against something and getting nowhere—even if you weren’t putting all that much effort into it—starts to be depressing after enough time passes. I had begun wondering if Rails would ever make any sense to me, and am glad (and relieved!) that I’ve finally made the slightest bit of progress.
Jeebus, Gruber wasn’t kidding when he said that OpenDNS is “fast, fast, fast.” My web browsing just got a nice, free, kick in the pants.
Wed 6 August 2008, 5:49 PM ⁄⁄ Link ⁄⁄ 1 Comment
Watching The Fog, the universally-abhorred 2005 remake of the John Carpenter classic. (Actually, this isn’t the worst way to describe what I’ve done for the last month.)
Fri 1 August 2008, 8:52 PM ⁄⁄ Link ⁄⁄ Comment
One person’s take on what Twitter would look like in the event of a zombie outbreak. (I especially appreciate that PROTIPs survive the chaos.)
Wed 9 July 2008, 8:01 AM ⁄⁄ Link ⁄⁄ Comment
The Last Days of Dr. Wily: worth watching if you’ve ever played a Mega Man game; the end is especially entertaining.
Thu 3 July 2008, 9:07 AM ⁄⁄ Link ⁄⁄ Comment
Just finished filling in as a lead in Ballroom I, where there are some 18 follows and 3 leads officially enrolled. While I can lead the moves now, I still suck at following patterns.
Wed 2 July 2008, 9:35 PM ⁄⁄ Link ⁄⁄ Comment
I’ve heard December 1963 on the radio about five times in the last week. That’s more often than most songs getting saturation coverage on the top-40 station I listen to.
Sun 29 June 2008, 8:49 AM ⁄⁄ Link ⁄⁄ 2 Comments
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