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Seriously, I am discouraged by how much easier it is to do a quick post in Facebook than it is with my own Movable Type. Somehow, Movable Type has to figure out how to allow for typing right on the page, instead of opening another whole new page. It is obviously possible. No, I do not think Facebook has a copy right to basic programing. If they do, it is anti-capitalistic.

I re-uploaded Movable Type 5.12. I had issues the last time it uploaded, and I never did upload the static image files. So, now I am just doing a quick post to see if things went smoothly. If you are reading this, it means it has.

This is a test post. I would tell you to ignore it, but obviously you are already reading it, making it too late to tell you to ignore it. Silly human.

Okay, it took longer then I expected. Not that Movable Type was the problem. It was the internet connection at my apartment. It took over 5 hours to upload half the files to my server. So, today after work I hit Dunn Bros Coffee Shop in Hastings and it took about 30 minutes to finish uploading the other half. So, here I now type in the slightly altered interface. Sigh. Visually programmers just can not help but muck about with the layout. Oh well.

Just a quick note to tell all none (as opposed to all 1 million) of my readers that I am a bit behind on Movable Type upgrades. Of late the upgrades have gone smoothly, so I am hoping that this one follows suit.

Okay, after much dilly dallying on my part, I finally got around to creating a widget for my Liberal Coalition blogroll. As is obvious by it's graph, it is over there to the right. Much good reading at some of those links.

Update: Okay, I have also added a larger Blog Roll, as well as removed the comment and archive widgets.

Update II: Okay, I also eliminated a certain large internet company's widget, which has since resulted in a quicker page load. Interesting, that.

Oops! I forgot to give thanks to MB for the source code of the Big Blog Roll. Actually, a little self disclosure here; I stole the code without first getting his permission. I am a bad, bad Rook and will now go stand in the corner where all bad rooks reside.

Just a quick technical note: Upgraded MT for a bug fix. Not that my site appeared buggy, but it was available, and I had time. And it went off without a hitch. Shiny!

Damn, there goes my blogrolls. One of the more irritating developments for blogging over the years is the lack of an intuitive, easily understood mechanism for managing blogrolls. I am an intelligent man, and have taught myself some basic, low level html coding. I can insert other codes into my blog templates, and for the most part can manage the simple stuff in Movable Type.

But when it comes to managing blogrolls, I relied on BlogRolling because it seemed none of the people smarter and more educated about Movable Type were interested in developing a blogrolling widget or plugin. I understand that BlogRolling wanted to make money, but that few of the people actually paid for their service. I kept meaning to, but I was financially strapped, some months not making the rent.

So, here I am, now stuck with losing my blogrolls, with no easy means of saving them (blogrolling never created an export feature so that you could create a text file of the links), and not wishing to spend hours copying and pasting one link at a time, I am stuck with eventually learning to create a means of managing and developing new rolls.

Crap.

See what I mean about being in a basket?

Trying out a new application on Facebook. So, this post is just a test to see if it really works.

Wala! Upgrade completed. I am not sure of all that was lost. I have none of my plugins. They were not compatible with the newest version, requiring me to wipe out the old installation. Also, I might have deleted some of my old images. Anyway, here's to having a new MT version.

Yes, the style is ugly. I once again have a learning curve to overcome. Patience is still requested. Should I actually have any readers left, register your complaints in this post.

Update: Old style quickly re-instated. Rook is happy.

I signed up for a service years ago called Gravatar. The original picture I used for an Avatar sucked, but I figured the service would not last long. Imagine my surprise when WordPress became associated with them recently. That called for a new Avatar.

Because I have not posted for a bit, and because I am bored, I decided to play around with Apple's Safari. So far, it is not much different in speed from Firefox, but the bookmark interface leaves a lot to be desired.