(Now listening to… Grapefruit Moon from the album “Closing Time” by Tom Waits)
Kung-Log wants MIME-BASE64 to be installed to support file uploads. Not knowing if I have it or not, I found these install steps and preformed them as root one at a time. Everything worked.
# MIME::Base64
curl -O http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/MIME/MIME-Base64-2.12.tar.gz
tar zxvf MIME-Base64-2.12.tar.gz
cd MIME-Base64-2.12
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install
Kung-Log has an iTunes button that will go get whatever is currently playing on iTunes and create a URL… like this one…
Now listening to… Which Will from the album “Pink Moon” by Nick Drake
Nicole should post more blogs using her iMac and Kung-Log. Ted should get an iMac and listen to tunes with iTunes.
Thanks to Nicole for a great CD (and VW who created a Nick Drake revival.)
Good refiinance calculator. It calculates the two key things you need to know: How much you save monthly, and how much interest you will pay from this point on with the new loan vs. the current loan.
Going to a 4.75% loan (no closing costs… it’s built into the rate) we will save $180 per month and pay $16,000 less in interest. With Wells Fargo, it is all done by mail.
Now listening to… Simonize from the album “Music For The Morning After” by Pete Yorn
Ted’s observation of two human beings reminds me of the caste system described in an article in National Geographic. In one photo, a man is climbing out of a sewer system, covered with human waste, wearing only a loin cloth and no protective gear. It was his job to crawl through the sewer line and manually unclog pipes. He was of the “Untouchables” caste.
I think we have a caste system in America, and while we are free to cross lines, in practice it is difficult to do.
I had a problem trying to get the “building” link to display correctly in the description. The banner has is an “id” style and the description is a “class”. The style for the link kept being picked up from the banner and not the description style in the stylesheet. (Too big!)
I had to eliminate the “span” from all templates replacing it with its own “div”, changing this:
<div id=”banner”>
<h1><a href=”<$MTBlogURL$>” accesskey=”1″><$MTBlogName$></a></h1>
<span class=”description”><$MTBlogDescription$></span>
</div>
to this:
<div id=”banner”>
<a href=”<$MTBlogURL$>” accesskey=”1″><$MTBlogName$></a>
</div>
<div class=”description”><$MTBlogDescription$></div>
By removing the span tag, the link I created in the description (building) would adopt the correct style. Otherwise, it kept picking up the banner style. I don’t understand the difference between “id=” and “class=”…. something to study.
I used this software to scan all ports on our web servers to determine if the SSL port 443 was accessible: G-Lock’s AATools.
See: Snapshot.
If you tweak your Movable Type templates, you need to save them somewhere for back up purposes. So I just put mine here in an extended entry. Had to change all the lt and gt tags to make the code viewable.
For me, I could not understand TrackBack until I used it. As soon as I used it, I realized it was an alterative way to adding a lengthy comment. (At least that is one obvious use of it.)
Kelly posted an article and enabled the “Allow Pings” option.
This made a “TrackBack (0)” link appear next to the “Comments (0)” link. Clicking on the TrackBack link produces a TrackBack URL that can be copied and pasted into the “Ping” field on my own blog article. By pinging from my article, my blog sends an update to Kelly’s blog, incrementing the link to: “TrackBack (1)”. Then, others can see I’ve posted a response, seeing my article title with an excerpt.
Very useful for an exchange of longer articles, giving the responding author the ability to fully edit the response. (Once you’ve posted a comment, you can’t change it.)
Read more about TrackBack in TrackBack for Beginners.
[Update: 6/20/2005. With 10.3.9 sendmail is configured to run “Automatic”. It just works w/ no configuration or fixes required. So notifications worked right away when I moved to the G3 running OS X 10.3.9.]
Sendmail quit working properly at some point. This meant notifications generated by MovableType were not being delivered. They were stuck somewhere.
This may have been caused by an Apple update of some kind. I think creating the NetInfo entry as described in on these pages is what finally solved the problem.
Since Kelly says she is bored, maybe I can help! Here are some things to do:
1) Clean up her room.
2) Give Clyde a bath.
3) Wash Dad’s car.
4) Water the flowers.
5) Go on p–p patrol.
6) Figure out how this trackback stuff works!