Free Range Librarian

I woke up this morning with flu symptoms: aches, fever, exhaustion, headache, stuffy nose, and cough. Even though common wisdom is that there isn’t much to be done for me that I can’t do for myself, this unfortunate, but fortunately rare, event–I haven’t been sick for at least five years–was my cue to belatedly get [...]

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I was tickled to see that someone at Six Apart linked to my party picture from their swank soiree. They asked the masses to ID a guy in a green shirt shown on their blogpage, and you know, he looks familiar (but maybe only because I saw him at the party). Ted? Dinah? Hello? I [...]

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Hah! One minute after I installed MT-Blacklist, it killed its first sp*m:
MT-Blacklist comment denial on ‘Free Range Librarian’.
Author: Takaraka; Email: @un.com
String matched: free-online-poker
Assessment: nice, slick interface; carefree maintenance; automatic updates to the list (my bane in the past was keeping this updated). If you haven’t used MT-Blacklist in a while, take a look. Installation [...]

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I’m installing MT-Blacklist tonight, and will be grooving through a few other checklist items. (For those of you reading Free Range Librarian for the MT installation issues, I upgraded mt.cfg without incident, simply by renaming files, and did not need to re-initialize the software. Foosh, it just worked.)
It’s a good night to piddle on [...]

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(It’s hard to complain about anything, with the death toll from the tsunamis rising every hour. We never truly realize how fortunate we are until that fortune ends. Forgive me for such a quotidian enquiry, as I go about my life, feeling helpless, but only for a day; tomorrow MPOW will be entering many sites [...]

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Now that I’ve made it through the hump of the Movable Type 3.14 upgrade, I’m building a to-do list of things to get done before the semester starts late next January and I again have No Life. Most of these tweaks fall into the “less work for mother” category; do it now and life will [...]

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[update] I think this cron job worked! (I just set it again for 5:15 p.m. today) (On 12/21 I wrote: “It’s 9 p.m. and I’ll schedule this for 9:03.”)
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So I was sitting here enjoying that quiet time after the Missus leaves to do her thing as the good reverend (she gets there early, so even though I’ll be there today for the Christmas morning hoo-hah, there’s this luscious hour of absolute quiet that is Mine, All Mine; she assigned some chores for this [...]

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Comments now work. I deleted the MT-Approval plugin (great idea, but still a little shaky in the execution), and that nearly fixed the problem, except for losing content during comment preview. Six Apart recommended a fix that was almost right (right tag, wrong template), I did a little Googling, and three minutes later I was [...]

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With the help of MT tech support, I fixed the problem with the entries not working. The commenting is still weirded out. If you try to comment (even if *I* try to comment), you will end up in an endless loop of warnings and rejections. This may not be a Movable Type problem; it may [...]

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