This is a test post. We have upgraded to Movable Type 3.35.

My shared server is sick, or my blogging software is messed up. It’s hard to tell, because my “country road” DSL connection is so spotty. In any case, what this means for you, loyal reader, is that comments may seem like they aren’t going through. Most of the time, however, they are. If you want to make sure your comment went through even though it’s seemed to have timed out, go ahead and hit the back button on your browser and try posting it again. I’ll clean up any double-posted comments for you afterwards. Sorry for this inefficient way of doing things, but it won’t last forever.

So this is the theme I have chosen after trying out 30+. I am, unfortunately, too lazy to write my own all over again. If you are having trouble loading this page or the design looks funny, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard while pressing F5. Note: After the upgrade, I noticed that the search function of this blog times out quite a bit. I’ll iron out the bugs eventually. In the meantime, if your search for “naked fat men” times out, hit the back button on your browser and try again.

Having tackled core software issues, it’s time to work on our design. I’m having a great time screwing around with different themes, and I hope Adam does, too (sorry dude, I hosed your previous theme when I overwrote the MT directory). It might be, um… colorful around here for awhile, until we decide on our designs.

After spending a whole day trying to figure out the right combination of fcgi wrappers, Movable Type core file extensions, and .htaccess voodoo, I think I got it figured out. All of my problems were due to 2 main reasons: There is no version 3.34-specific documentation easily available, including on the sixapart website As always, I made mountains out of molehills. In my defense, I can’t help it – shell access and the command line get me excited… Therefore, I offer the following advice for the installation/upgrading of MT to version 3.34 on a Dreamhost shared server: Change your domain settings to run PHP 5.2.1 and enable FastCGI support via…

I’m having some issues with an MT upgrade and don’t have the time to work them out today. Comments are hosed on all of our sites until I can get it sorted. Hell, I don’t even know if this will post or not…

Dishonesty sucks So, children, the moral of the story is, “if you ever get caught with stolen merchandise, just tell the cops you didn’t know it was stolen.” Internets is teh kewl!!!

One of Adam’s old posts on Oita Aquarium (link) got farked over the weekend (it’s on the front page of the Tech section right now). It seems to have been picked up on a few other blogs as well, which is why I noticed it. Congrats, dude! Now if you’d only fix your comments and add the Google Analytics code I’ve been bugging you with for a year…

The top ten search phrases for this blog, via Google Analytics: naked fat men (corresponding link) fat men naked (same link as above) snow crash movie (corresponding link 1, 2) miami vice theme song (corresponding link) cosmic buddha (too many links to list) food carving (corresponding link 1, 2) fish sausage (corresponding link 1, 2, 3) fragalicious (corresponding link) adam was arrested for (corresponding link) sword tricks (corresponding link) In addition, here are a few others I found interesting: ramen vending machine the devil is beating his wife i hate disneyland drink pee too many mcs not enough mics gory gory what a helluva way to die bald women for…