I have no idea why Sixapart (who make my blog software) and Dreamhost (my webhost) are so intent on screwing with me in collusion, nor why it’s so hard to implement a simple blogroll in MT 4, but I do know that I managed to lose my sidebars – no search, no archives, no recent photos, no (unused) tag cloud space… and even though it’s unintentional, I’m kinda digging this minimalist design. I might stick with it for a while. My e-mail is above (at the top of my main blog page); shoot me a message if you need to find an entry in the archives (e.g., “sunrise tacos”) and…

Beam us up to the mothaship already! Let me know if you run into any problems commenting or viewing entries, etc.

I finally got everything around here working smoothly for the past month, so…. That’s right, it’s time for another upgrade! This time it’s from Movable Type 4.01 to 4.1… Hope this install goes smoother than the last one, and that Dreamhost doesn’t let me down or bill me for two years in advance again (Dreamhost customer joke). If I disappear from the ether for a while, don’t worry, I’ll be back somehow, sometime.

After experiencing downtime for three days, we are back… It turns out the best solution to these type of stupid MT4 problems is threatening it with an ass-kicking… Should have thought of that much earlier! The problem was that my index page suddenly stopped publishing… It was set to publish dynamically, along with all the archives, with all options enabled. This, for some reason, stopped working. After restoring database backups, reinstalling mt, and going through the Dreamhost support ticket system for a few days (they were very helpful this time – thanks guys! – but to no avail), I tried something funky. I changes the publishing directory for just the…

i’m going to beat the shit out of you if you don’t work, dammit

come on come on come on baby

please please please publish!!

publish the index..