I love my new Gmail account! Love it so much I’ve decided to use it as my main e-mail account from here on out, and — note to self! — as of 3:45 pm today I will no longer bother to keep archiving mail on my computer. (Well, except for the old stuff — I’m hoping they’ll give us a way to import older mailboxes, that would be schweet!)
Edward Lifson played a couple of my tunes this morning on his show Hello Beautiful on Chicago Public Radio. I had the radio directly next to my head, turned on and tuned to the right station, and guess what? Slept through the whole thing. Sooooo typical. Well, it’ll be archived online presently, but still… I could’ve heard it live!! Murphy’s Law for sure.
I started allowing HTML in comments, just so’s you know. I mean, screw it. I get notified of all comments anyway, and I can spot the bad stuff just as easily in HTML as I can in plaintext. Unlinked URLs are automatically converted to links also, so there will be no more cutting and opening a new window and pasting and hitting "enter", thank you very much.
Wanna see my up-to-the-minute blogroll? I’ve placed a link to it in the sidebar… maybe at some point I’ll figure out a nice-looking way to display it inline, like maybe in a little scrolling box or some such.
I’m very addicted to Bloglines now, as I think I’ve mentioned before. I hope it doesn’t turn into a paid service, but if it does I’m coughing up the dough!
I think I finally finished cleaning up all the broken internal links I created when I moved to ExpressionEngine. You know, like in my comments or within the body of my posts where I’d link to another post in the old Movable Type URL style. If you find any I missed (jeez, there were about 200 of ’em) or if anything else acts wonky, please let me know!
Just so’s y’all know, in the future any system-generated e-mails coming from this site (comment and membership notifications, member-to-member e-mails etc.) will be using the address "admin" instead of what it was using before, which is my personal address, which I’m not going to repeat here but it’s pretty easy to guess if you know my first name, heheh! This way y’all can use mail filters if you want to, and my own personal mail won’t be shuffled into that same category.
Today must be my two-week anniversary of using ExpressionEngine. I absolutely love it, it’s the most fun I’ve had on the web in years. I feel like I’ve just barely scratched the surface with it too.
Hey, I got a Gmail account! Somebody who liked the Demos release offered it to me in return for my "gift of music". God, the hype has been so intense that I’m actually kinda excited right now. I got a COOL name too!! Which I won’t tell you here, ‘cuz I don’t give out e-mail addresses on the web. Too bad for you, web!
Sorry for the downtime there… if you’re reading this, that means my new DNS numbers have propagated to your network and you’re viewing my site on the speedy new USA server. U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!!! I can’t see it over here yet. Wish it would hurry up but it hasn’t even been 12 hours yet, gotta give it a little more time.
I just got a couple of spams bearing the title "now that I am brinksmanship girl". LOL… what the hell does "brinksmanship" mean? I have to use that in a song.
Not really. :-)
I’m getting really flummoxed trying to get my blog data to the new server. Will stare at my screen for awhile and try to figure out a way around this. The way will no doubt be long and stupid, but at least I’ll get there.
OH my god… I just looked up the word "brinksmanship". "The art or practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety especially to force a desired outcome.". It’s just like reading the horoscopes!
Around midnight tonight I’m going to be turning off new comments and member registrations. Reason being, I’m moving the site to a new server. I have to export my database, import it into the new digs, make sure all the settings and templates are correct (HA!), alert GoDaddy of the DNS change, and wait a little while for the numbers to propagate. Expect about 48 hours of this shit, and hopefully by Monday or Tuesday you’ll see things hoppin’ again. Sorry for the inconvenience but it’ll be worth it — the site should be a whole lot faster when the move’s done.
I made Matthew and Rob admins on this site, they now have the title "Sergeant-At-Arms", heheh. No real reason, other than they now have the power to play with my CSS if they want, and to bitch-slap any comments spammers and haters if I’m not around to do it myself.
I tried to help someone tonight with their ExpressionEngine templates. Hilarity ensued.
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Thanks Irwin!
Yesterday I broke out from my usual lurker-mode on Jay Allen’s MT Blacklist blog, on a post where he was asking people to submit their ideas for a new version he’s working on. I made a bad joke, and now I kinda wish I hadn’t. Dude, I need an html tag like this:
<funny size="+3"></funny>
So yeah, I’ll uhhhh… just be over here if you need me. :-|
