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I finally got me a moblog — a _real_ one, this time. Take a look over on the right — it’ll show the most recent photos from my camera phone.

It’s the culmination of several weeks of coding, drawing from both my newfound experience in JavaScript, as well as good-old-fashioned time-honored server-side PHP! (That PHP coding was a doozy, too, seeing as how I haven’t coded anything in it in years… but I came through, in the end.)

Keep an eye out!

In case you were wondering, I’ve got some other sites that you might be interested in (this is mostly for you-know-who):

*1) http://mdm-adph[dot]blogspot[dot]com*
There’s “http://mdm-adph[dot]blogspot[dot]com” (feel free to replace the [dot]’s with periods). This is my work blog — I’m not hotlinking it here for obvious reasons (referrers can be tracked, and I’d rather not let my employers pick up on anything personal that I write).

I write about mostly tech-related subjects here, keeping firmly away from the areas of personal life or politics. I know they’re probably logging everywhere I surf to at work, so I make sure and keep this blog clean.

2) “http://threshold-zero.com/blog”:http://threshold-zero.com/blog
This will soon be a new blog of mine, or a place where I’ll put specific types of entries (movie reviews, book reviews, etc.). Really, I just wanted to use the new version of “Movable Type”:http://movabletype.org that was recently released, because it’s finally gone free again.

3) “http://threshold-zero.com”:http://threshold-zero.com
This is probably where I’m going to tie all of my sites into to — I bought this domain name about a year ago, and even though I haven’t done anything with it yet, I’ve grown rather attached to it. (There’s nothing there now, of course!)

4) “http://gallery.macnahanchey.com”:http://gallery.macnahanchey.com

I’m trying to make this into a members-only photo-sharing site for members of my family, but I (and they) have been slow to get together and start putting pictures up. (By the way, if any of you are reading and need help putting some pictures here, feel free to ask for help.)

4) “http://board.macnahanchey.com”:http://board.macnahanchey.com

This is going to be the same kinda thing, just for messages and posts instead of pictures.

And that’s about it!

By the way, from time to time feel free to check my “Tumblr Blog”:http://captainskyhawk.tumblr.com — it’ll just be quick little things that I send from my cell phone! Yep — pictures, quick text messages, all straight from my cell phone.

The site is even PDA/Newton accessible via “http://captainskyhawk.tumblr.com/mobile”:http://captainskyhawk.tumblr.com/mobile (hint hint nod nod wink wink), so you lucky owners of internet-enabled PDA’s can have fun, too.

Hey, if you noticed, I’m changing a lot of shit to do with the design of my blog — I wanted something brighter and “happier.”

So, I decided to go with a light gray instead of black. Neat, huh?

Well, “Movable Type 4″:http://movabletype.org has been released, and the makers have finally decided to release a free version again.

I’ll probably be moving back to MT, of course. I’ll still keep doing stuff in Textpattern, too — I still think it’s the best, with it’s combination of tag-based templates (vs. “Wordpress”:http://wordpress.org) and no-reload-necessary publishing (vs. “MT”:http://movabletype.org).

I’ve got a testblog up at “threshold-zero.com”:http://threshold-zero.com that I’m working around with — take a look if you have the time!

Doing several things all at once, now:

I’ve got a permanent solution set up for the Ventrilo server for the GUILD — one that won’t change addresses, even if mine does.

I’m working on helping everyone with their respective computers:

I’m getting a “new case”:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811147010 this week… My brother and I are speeding up our respective computers a bit, too… I’m trying to help my brother-in-law sell his nice (but highly proprietary) Dell computer for some new, nicely upgradeable stuff… I’m trying to help my sister out with a new gaming PC, too… “Nina”:http://sophisticat.org’s already got a super-fast computer, so blegh! blegh!! :p

And I’m trying to do all of this without spending hardly any money at all! Yay!

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I’m also working on the site here a bit — I started messing with the commenting system, but haven’t finished it, though it still works.

I’m working on fully integrating the “jQuery”:http://jquery.com JavaScript library (I’m liking it a LOT more than the old moo.fx stuff).

Just posting this real quick to help out anyone out there who’s having the same problem…

Having trouble importing entries from another type of blogging software into TextPattern? Nina and I sure were. We looked everywhere for documentation — third-party sites, the official TextPattern website, the TextPattern Wiki — couldn’t find a goddamn thing.

Shit, TextPattern’s own importing page doesn’t even give any help — it’s just a page with a couple of options and an import button. You can select all the options you want, click on the button ’till you’re blue in the face — it won’t do crap all. It’ll just give you an error message on the return page and that’s it.

Eh? WTF, you know? I finally came up with the idea that it was looking for a type of import file somewhere in a folder (most scripts like this that don’t ask you to specify the file on the web page do), but there is _absolutely no documentation anywhere that says this_.

So, what did I have to do?

Go into the goddamn PHP code and examine it, line by line.

And there, I found it:

*//checks the existence of a file called import.txt on the import dir.*
*// Used when importing from a file*
*function check_import_file()*

Can somebody please tell me why it would’ve been so farking hard to put a little line saying “Oh, by the way, you need to rename your data you want to upload as ‘import.txt’ and ftp it to this directory?” Someone, anyone? TextPattern people?

Well, either way, we found the solution. Now to try it.

Well, with the help of “Nina”:http://blog-her.com and “this site”:http://textpattern.com/faq/134/how-do-I-make-an-archive-page, I now have an archive page! You can check it out with the link at the top.

(I’m still working on the layout for all of these pages — I swear everything won’t be _just_ green and black forever.)

Just now getting “TextPattern”:http://textpattern.com set up to be my main blog — I’ve had it here in this subdomain for months and months now, but now, due to help from my loving “Nina”:http://blog-her.com, I’ve finally enabled it!

At first glance, it’s easy as hell to use, and with its “Textile” based logic system, you can create easy if/then/else hooks in your HTML, without even touching a bit of JavaScript or PHP. After only a few hours, I’d say I have it pretty much down pat!

Good work, ye makers of “TextPattern”:http://textpattern.com.