Well, things are now all up and happy on the new site. I’ve still got to get the site search working, but that’ll happen tomorrow. There’s lots of other little things that I’ll need to fix up (like mp3s not being up yet), but for the most part everything works. If you find something that doesn’t, let me know.

Well, since all my permalinks just changed yesterday I figure this is a good time to change my hosting. For the last 10 months or so, my web site has been sitting on the linux box in my kitchen. I’ve been meaning to start hosting with my friend Lukas, but haven’t really gotten up the motivation. So, sometime in the next day or so, the official address for this site will change to just https://ezoons.com/wp-content/uploads/imported-legacy/. It will still be accessible through the current address for a while after, but most likely that will just bounce you over. Hopefully things won’t be TOO broken when I move them over. This also gives me a chance to clean out all the crap I have in my current public_html directory (there’s so much in there that isn’t even used anymore), and I’m sure lots of graphics stuff will break initially, but we’ll get that fixed up as soon as possible. Hopefully I’ll be able to do that by the end of the week.

The other thing I’m going to do is make it so that people can’t load images from other sites. I’ve got more and more people using images I have here for icons on web bulletin boards. Sheesh people, I don’t care if you copy the image, just don’t expect me to host it for you.

Robert McCloskey: “I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” [Quotes of the Day]

Halley has an interesting post up about why people blog.

The life and death bloggers aren’t writing casually. They are writing for their lives. They are writing to stay alive. They are writing about what it feels like to be alive — knowing that all that will be left behind is their words. They are writing because it really, really matters . Tony Perkins is not Anne Frank — nor does he want to be, nor should he aspire to be. But like Tony, anyone who wants to join the party needs to be aware of the tradition of this medium — enter this inner sanctum with head bowed, hat in hand. Tread lightly in this place. Show us your real self. We’re naked here, are you? We’re alive here, but we’re also dying. Dying to tell you our stories. [Halley’s Comment]

I definitely can identify with some of this. I don’t write about my health issues often (because I hate to seem like I’m whining), but I do when it is important to me. For me blogging is partly about just getting stuff out of my head. And in some cases that’s talking about how hard it was to breath on a certain day when the air quality sucked (others it might be why I’m annoyed with cheese). It’s as much for me as for my friends who pop over here to see how I’m doing.

And yes, when I get the call to go in for a new lung you will all hear about it here.

So I figured out how to change my archives. Now I’m going around picking up all the little pieces it left behind. One thing this has gotten me thinking about is the guid for my posts (which is included in the RSS feed). Currently it is using the post id #, which really isn’t anything permanent. I’m thinking I should just set it to be the permalink.

I’m going to put out a public apology to everyone who has permalinks to me currently. They already got all screwed up by my database corruption, and they’ll probably be a bit unstable till I move my hosting. But once that happens I’m taking steps to make sure that everything remains clean. Btw, here’s a pretty good starting guide to Movable Type. What’s nice is it tells you about the archive format tags. I hadn’t realized you could do that, very slick. It also means I can take a step closer to having my permalinks being being actual permalinks.

This is really kinda cool, and it ran great on OS X under Safari.

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Priidu sez:  “It’s summer. Go play some Tardis Tennis.” [jenett.radio]

I was looking over at Antipixel today and I think he has a setup that would work for me as far as permalinks go. Archives seem to be stored in a way similar to how Radio does it in YYYY/MM/DD/PostTitle.html. I’ve sent the guy who does the site an email, so hopefully he’ll point me in the right direction (if I haven’t already figured out how to do it myself).

G. K. Chesterton: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” [Quotes of the Day]

Some people are very serious about their music.

A 25-year-old Filipino man has been stabbed dead for singing a Frank Sinatra classic out of tune during a birthday party. [smh.com.au] [via antipixel]

Note to self, you can’t sing, so never sing any Sinatra when out in public. Results could be disastrous.