I’m excited! SIFFBlog has a scoop, regarding the launch of a new annual Noir City: Seattle festival at midsummer!
Last year, E. Steven Fried published what I think remains the most extensive interview with Seattle’s own James Longley regarding his Oscar-nommed Iraq in Fragments. This year, we’re just getting warmed up!
FastCGI installed! There is a noticeable speed bump. I did see a server-misconfig error thrown a moment ago on some pagebuild subroutine, though. Hm.
UPDATE: look at that, it happened again. Looks like the entries are getting written out, at least. Odd. Also it appears that editing the entry generated a double post.
Neil’s World: Running Movable Type on OS X with FastCGI – written a while ago, but with a goodly set of server-side config instructions and troubleshooting. SixApart has a typically terse info sheet on working to the same goal.
Odd. 101-degree fever on waking, full-body ache centered in the joints. No snot or fuzzy head, just discomfort.
Hot Tipper Starfleet Ensign Sharman notes that a banner flogging the URL anhaltcondos.com just appeared, floating above the hedgery of our old, lamented, home. Ensign Sharman! I have some data discs for you!
UPDATE: Damn, that site is NOT ready for prime time.
I have had a low-level stress-induced head-and-body ache since January, when a blogger that relies on my spotty and unpaid hosting noted that comments were not working. After ages of struggle, I think I’ve resolved things for now, at a blown time (over 120 hours more than I hoped to invest) and monetary budget (about 200 in new gear). I may continue with part II, outsourcing the hosting component, as it looks like I can get someone else to do the dirty work (software upgrades, bandwidth, blackholing spambots) for about $15 a month.
The next card to flip in the deck, of course, is how to generate revenue on the labor.
A seamless upgrade to 1.2Ghz from what was formerly .4Ghz might speed the server up a mite. Phew!
Spam Fighting in Movable Type, some helpful links.
I forget.
How pleasant to hear NPR’s coverage of the Ponderosa Stomp as I pulled in to the carport this evening and to end the night with Ahmet Ertegun’s valediction on the PBS. Astonishing to be reminded that the Stax men, Booker’s band, were Otis Redding’s sidemen. How amazing to have been introduced to the persons playing the instruments via that silly movie, and to realize how ingenious it was of those comedians to insist on the players.