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.
MIsery
Odd. 101-degree fever on waking, full-body ache centered in the joints. No snot or fuzzy head, just discomfort.
hot tip
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.
ache
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.
UPG PHW
A seamless upgrade to 1.2Ghz from what was formerly .4Ghz might speed the server up a mite. Phew!
Hints
Spam Fighting in Movable Type, some helpful links.
Memory
I forget.
La Musique
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.
Upgrade ho!
After a week more of bitter struggle, I was finally able to execute the upgrade I’ve been working toward. Unfortunately, the resolution of the problem is not apparent. The upgrade wasn’t working, and then it did. Another week or so of fiddly bits will follow, I think.
internetlessness
At Poets&Writers, Inc, Stephen Elliott writes about going cold turkey from the hot wire:
I started reading a lot more books, which is good for me since I’m a person who writes books. And I read more challenging books. I would read and write all morning, take a lunch break, and then write until evening. I could feel my attention span lengthening. I would think about problems until I figured them out.
When I ask people why they need to be online, they inevitably focus on the stream coming toward them – the information they receive passively from e-mail lists and messages from friends and associates that contain crucial information. But it turns out that you don’t miss much being offline. If something important and newsworthy occurs, you can find out from the newspaper or The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.