Movable Type just this minute released an upgrade.  My cup runneth over!!  I hope this doesn’t break anything, or take too long.

I’ve added nice titles to my front page.  Now I just have to do it on the other pages, and remember to always put a title along with the URL when I make links.

I’ve been playing with the style sheet for the site, but I keep getting distracted and having to walk away from it.  I know everything looks funny, but at least I’m learning.  Learning how to mangle my site in fresh new ways every day!

Ugh, I had to rebuild my files yet again because of a bad bug I found in Dreamweaver MX.  It doesn’t understand filenames in OS X that are longer than 26 characters.  I had set my filenames at 30 characters (including the .html extension), which made DW all but useless for me.  So I shortened them to a 25-character limit, hopefully that’ll shut it up.  I can’t sit around waiting for DW to fix its bugs, I’ll be waiting forever.

Well, apparently I did nothing on this day in any year since the beginning of my life. Or at least I didn’t blog about anything.  But I’ve installed Brad Choate’s MTOnThisDay plugin for Movable Type… I’ve tested it and it DOES work and does look very nice.  So the next time I actually did spew forth on the same day in another year, you’ll be notified in the sidebar to your right, directly under the calendar thingy.

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Okay y’all, I need to rebuild the whole blog database now, and to do that I need to delete all the archived pages so that Movable Type can save its new files into an empty folder.  Fetch is going to take its sweet time doing this, so if y’all come across any broken links, please wait a half-hour or two and they should appear if you hit ‘reload’.

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I’ve posted some of the journal entries I wrote on the European tour, at least up through the end of the first leg we did in Spain.  You can access them most easily by visiting the monthly page for October and scrolling down to the 23rd, the day the tour started in Valencia.  I’m sorry if there’s some repeated info between the stuff I blogged then and what I wrote in the journal, but oh well.

I have to go to bed now but maybe tomorrow (=today) I’ll work on posting more entries from the rest of the tour.  After Spain it all pretty much started going to hell though, so I know I’ll have to do some heavy editing!  ;-)

Hey everybody, looky what I did, I posted my collection of old ticket stubs!!  I know it’s a totally obsessive waste of time, but I’m so psyched I finally did it.  Because these are all really important, wonderful memories for me and they belong in my journal just as much if not more than anything else.  Now if I can only remember who all the opening bands were!  Also, there were a lot of tickets that didn’t have dates on them; maybe one day I’ll figure that out.  And it’s reminding me of all the shows I never saved tickets for… but I know I have a piece of paper around here somewhere that has more info like that.  (I’ve been a compulsive list-maker for many years.) I’ll fill in the info later on as I come across it.

Hi there.  I’m still here, I’ve just been preoccupied with a lotta family- and holiday-related concerns lately, like everybody else.  The actual blogging will probably continue to be sparse until after the new year.  But I’ve put in a few hours every day on the site over the last few weeks. I’m going crosseyed from working with pictures, pictures and more pictures!  But I’ve finished most of the work I wanted to do, which was to migrate the old photo gallery into my Movable Type archives for easier maintenance.  At least I moved all the ones that have known dates; there are a lot of pictures (especially the older ones) that I’m not sure where to put, but later for that.

One day I want to scan my collection of old concert ticket stubs, wouldn’t that be funny?  But who has the time?

I upgraded my Movable Type scripts to version 2.51.  Just making sure everything still works!

Damn, the link to my photos page has been wrong for over a month now.  My bad!  John says he kept meaning to tell me about that; I was also alerted by one of the fans I talked to while I was on tour.

I’ll be posting tour photos pretty soon, when I get ‘em organized and labeled.  Also my inbox is downloaded now, so anybody who took pictures at the shows can go ahead and send me copies, and/or send me URLs where I can grab ‘em for myself.  :-)

I finally finished folding all the interviews from the old press section into Movable Type.  Lotta cutting and pasting!  I had to fudge on a lot of the exact dates, but oh well… it’s mostly correct and the questionable parts are marked as such.

Forty-eight goddamn interviews, for only three albums!?!?!  Undeniable proof that I’m both the biggest packrat, and the biggest motormouth ever.

I’ve done so much futzing I’m ’bout to lose my mind!  At the moment I’m working on yearly archives, with 12 months of mini-calendars like the one that appears on my front page.  But I’m not done filling in all the years.

Still can’t figure out why my comments aren’t being mailed to me anymore.  Somebody else is having the same problem and posted a complaint to the Movable Type support forum.  I’ll wait to see if that gets any answers before I start tearin’ my hair out over it.

Now is the time to let me know if you spot any garish errors, links that don’t work, etc. etc.

I’ve upgraded and will be making more tweaks this evening.  I know it looks funny!

I have so many auto-generated gadgets on my weblog, it’s starting to adversely affect its performance.  It’s running WAY too slow whenever you do anything like add a post, add a comment, or edit anything.  So please stand by while I make a few more tweaks to the code.  I’m going to be rebuilding some things; I’ll try not to screw it up.