Yeesh!
Okay, I will use this LJ thing after all, putting the essays on the blog and saving the boring personal crap for here, hopefully away from the Google spider.
Man, tried to despam a comment from the Movable Type blog this morning and all hell broke loose. Dunno if it was already broken, or something wrong happened during the despamming, but all the comments were missing. No problem, I have a backup of the blog including comments, so I try to do an Import into Movable Type to restore it. Of course, this would duplicate everything, so I try and figure out how to delete all the entries first. Eventually, I give up on finding an easy way to do this and start checking all the boxes and deleting them. Takes about 5-10 minutes, no biggy. Try to import... nothing. It complains about a missing file, 'mt-comment.MYD'.
I have no idea where this file is. It doesn't show up in the mt directory anywhere. Maybe there's a configuration file that got screwed up. So I recopy all the Movable Type files from the installation (not as big a deal as it sounds). Forgot that it overwrites my mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi. Fortunately, I have a backup of mt.cfg from when I renamed mt-comments.cgi, so I restore that. I forgot my MySQL password so I had to call Rich. He doesn't remember, but tells me my home directory is backed up daily, and tells me where to restore the file from. So no biggy there. Thank God for backups.
But then it still can't import. Argh. After doing a Google on 'mt-comment.MYD', I figure it's in the MySQL database. Fortunately, Rich backs that up to, so he'll restore it when he gets back.
I suppose this is why most people don't deal with this sorta thing and just use Blogger or LJ or TypePad. Well, I wanted the flexibility, especially with my archives, so I guess this is the tradeoff for that. I don't know squat about MySQL, maybe I should learn. Or maybe I should finally migrate the thing to WordPress, as I've been contemplating for a while.
Anyway, finally crossed 20,000 words this morning. Still way behind pace, but last week I decided not to stress about wordcount and just concentrate on writing every day and making progress, hopefully finishing the novel by the end of the year. I'm working on a blog post that elaborates. Might put it up this weekend (assuming the blog is working by then), but I'll probably post a copy of it here too, since a lot of NaNo d00ds and d00d3tt3s are on LJ.
Man, tried to despam a comment from the Movable Type blog this morning and all hell broke loose. Dunno if it was already broken, or something wrong happened during the despamming, but all the comments were missing. No problem, I have a backup of the blog including comments, so I try to do an Import into Movable Type to restore it. Of course, this would duplicate everything, so I try and figure out how to delete all the entries first. Eventually, I give up on finding an easy way to do this and start checking all the boxes and deleting them. Takes about 5-10 minutes, no biggy. Try to import... nothing. It complains about a missing file, 'mt-comment.MYD'.
I have no idea where this file is. It doesn't show up in the mt directory anywhere. Maybe there's a configuration file that got screwed up. So I recopy all the Movable Type files from the installation (not as big a deal as it sounds). Forgot that it overwrites my mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi. Fortunately, I have a backup of mt.cfg from when I renamed mt-comments.cgi, so I restore that. I forgot my MySQL password so I had to call Rich. He doesn't remember, but tells me my home directory is backed up daily, and tells me where to restore the file from. So no biggy there. Thank God for backups.
But then it still can't import. Argh. After doing a Google on 'mt-comment.MYD', I figure it's in the MySQL database. Fortunately, Rich backs that up to, so he'll restore it when he gets back.
I suppose this is why most people don't deal with this sorta thing and just use Blogger or LJ or TypePad. Well, I wanted the flexibility, especially with my archives, so I guess this is the tradeoff for that. I don't know squat about MySQL, maybe I should learn. Or maybe I should finally migrate the thing to WordPress, as I've been contemplating for a while.
Anyway, finally crossed 20,000 words this morning. Still way behind pace, but last week I decided not to stress about wordcount and just concentrate on writing every day and making progress, hopefully finishing the novel by the end of the year. I'm working on a blog post that elaborates. Might put it up this weekend (assuming the blog is working by then), but I'll probably post a copy of it here too, since a lot of NaNo d00ds and d00d3tt3s are on LJ.