Blogvolution
Yes, the blog is in transition... again. Last night I lost control of my senses and decided that I needed to figure out why MT4 wasn't working correctly. And I actually couldn't get to sleep until I was sure it actually would do all the basic things that it needed to do. Clearly, I am now certifiable.
MT4 is not bad, it's just a significant shift structurally and I did some dumb, blind things without thinking when I installed it. I have been kicking myself for deciding to upgrade when what I had was working fine. The lure of shiny new features is just too much to resist sometimes. Some days I am just my own worst enemy when it comes to wanting to play with new toys. In the end, I ended up "starting fresh" by creating a brand new blog and importing all of the stuff from the old blog into the new one. And there are still a ton of issues that I still have to resolve. Sigh. But at least you can read it and I can post to it, which is an improvement. The look and feel of my blog is now just one of Movable Types standard on board styles... I miss my old template already. But hopefully I'll be able to resurrect things as time goes on. In the meantime, it's nice just to have a blog that actually functions.
Right now I'm trying to look on the bright side and see this as an opportunity to learn something new and to clean up a bunch of old cruft that had accumulated in my template. I'm hoping that once I get to start playing with some of the new widgets and toys in MT4 that I will be happier about the whole situation. I do have to say that I like the image preview functions much better...
However, the moral of this story is most definitely the old engineer's adage: if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Yes, I know I am having problems with the comments... they want you to be authorized to log comment... even I am not authorized at this point, so don't take it personally... more MT4 issues.
MT4 is not bad, it's just a significant shift structurally and I did some dumb, blind things without thinking when I installed it. I have been kicking myself for deciding to upgrade when what I had was working fine. The lure of shiny new features is just too much to resist sometimes. Some days I am just my own worst enemy when it comes to wanting to play with new toys. In the end, I ended up "starting fresh" by creating a brand new blog and importing all of the stuff from the old blog into the new one. And there are still a ton of issues that I still have to resolve. Sigh. But at least you can read it and I can post to it, which is an improvement. The look and feel of my blog is now just one of Movable Types standard on board styles... I miss my old template already. But hopefully I'll be able to resurrect things as time goes on. In the meantime, it's nice just to have a blog that actually functions.
Right now I'm trying to look on the bright side and see this as an opportunity to learn something new and to clean up a bunch of old cruft that had accumulated in my template. I'm hoping that once I get to start playing with some of the new widgets and toys in MT4 that I will be happier about the whole situation. I do have to say that I like the image preview functions much better...
However, the moral of this story is most definitely the old engineer's adage: if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Yes, I know I am having problems with the comments... they want you to be authorized to log comment... even I am not authorized at this point, so don't take it personally... more MT4 issues.
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This is just a test comment. Boy would it be nice if I could make comments work without requiring people to sign in.
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So, I looked for an email address, but couldn't find one. At any rate, I just wanted to let you know that when you publish your blog the past 13 or so posts show up as new when I read via RSS in google reader. It's a little weird, and although I just scroll through them or mark them read in one fell swoop I thought you might like to know of a weirdness happening since you switched to MT4. good luck!
Thanks for letting me know -- I've seen that problem, too. I'm having a rough transition to MT4 and have a bunch of bugs to work out. I don't know why the RSS feed is behaving differently since it's the exact same template as I used in MT3.... just one more mystery to solve. And everything takes longer with a small baby around...
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