(from Facebook)

My mom, quietly interacting with her iPad, suddenly makes a sound like a cat moving from concern to anger and then suddenly says with quiet, voice-creaking intensity:

“I hate you.”

I have never heard my mother say these words or emote like this. I am taken aback. I ask, analytically, have you ever uttered this in the context of an interaction with a computer that requires the use of a mouse and/or keyboard?

“Probably not,” she says.

Great, I gave my mom a Christmas gift (years ago) that leads her to experience and express emotional states she has literally fought her entire life. You’re welcome!

OK, that should do it. Now I gotta make a list of cleanups and bugs to squash.

• Check media
• mod_rewrite for URL persistence
• Category assignments and top-level pages
• Themes
• Transferring from testing URL to end URL

Twitter entries cleaned up and reposted. Whatever the caching issue is that intermittently delays individual entry page updates seems to be affecting the site but whatever the entries are correct in the DB, which means, I think, that they are also correct in the WXR.

(NOTE: This was the final entry written and posted in Movable Type. It retains the MT post ID and is addressable via a WP URL that incorporates the post ID, http://michael.whybark.com/?p=6759 at this stage on the deployment domain.)

Aggravatingly, the locked-out text entry fields in the MT UI has recurred. Posting using the quick post method resolved it last time. Let’s see if that’s reproducible.

The 750-odd Twitter derived entries have been cleaned up in an export file. Next step is weighing how to integrate that data either here or in the next CMS.