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…

Some maniac is, again, manually inserting comment spam in my recent posts. The thing is, I kinda dig his/her writing: “It was pretty obvious you were suffering from lack of some desperate sex right here right now, and it didn’t cross my mind at first to just cut you downright. I became drugged with your silly nothings, was incredibly curious as to where you were going with all that crap. So I pissed you off a little, but went on roll and got everyone down on the slippery slope. I know who the bastards are now and no, thank you, never again. The tactile feeling is not that of a…

Due to a huge spam attack yesterday, which took me a while to clean up, I’ve decided to add a small step to commenting – the good news is that it’s very easy for anyone to figure out. You can still comment anonymously and without leaving an email address, but I’m sorry to place any part of the burden created by viagra-selling assholes on my readers… Necessary evil and all that.

So this new anti-spam approach is such that pretty much all automated spam attempts are junked… but in less than a day, I’ve recorded over 20 spams entered by hand just on this blog and my brother’s! The funniest part of this is that none of those spam attempts were published to our blogs; they were automatically held for our approval by the system… Hell yeah! Take off, you hosers.

I’m fiddling with software settings in the background here, mostly to alleviate some of the hits our site is taking from comment spam, but also to improve usability on the admin side. If you have any problems with comments or notice anything strange, please let me know. I have also folded my moblog and the School of Rice blogs into archives here and here to simplify things (since they are no longer updated). Categories (on the sidebar) have been rearranged, but remain a poor way of finding specific posts. Using the search function is better for that. You can always contact me if you need help finding something; I can…