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People ask "Where have you been? No blog entries lately... whats up? Are you OK?"
Well, January is hibernation month around here. Besides, see below.
And I've been somewhat pre-occupied, thinking about upgrading my 3 blogs (All I Know, All I've Seen, and Music From Other Minds) to Movable Type 4.1 from version 3.32. The upgrade is pretty hairy, judging by the comments on the MT Forum, and would require changing the database technology I currently use. Obvious fears about losing it all and having to either start over or try to recover four years of blogging. Yesterday I pretty much gave up on the idea. Even tho it is a bit flaky, it is working ok. I don't like the way MT3 uses categories, and the tools for managing the blog are missing some important features (like making batch changes to all or most entries, and better support for multiple categories per entry) that are frustrating. And I don't think moving to MT4 would fix any of that.
I also looked into B2Evolution, an open source blogging platform. I even installed it on my ISP's server and tried it out. It uses MySQL, and I immediately got some obscure php errors. A search of the B2Evo forums pointed at a solution, which had me editing some php files in the distro, not something you do lightly. That fixed the immediate problems but new ones popped up, so I trashed it all and gave in to sticking with MT3.32
My photo blog has gotten pretty big with nearly 400 entries now, and many categories. I may have to transform it into something else. But just thinking about it makes me nervous. So I've been staying away from all that.
Haven't touched the camera or the slide collection. It's a quiet time, just reading. (eg Naomi Klein's SHOCK DOCTRINE, which I recommend everyone read!) And, thanks to Netflix, we've been watching a lot of movies... catching up:
We liked them all. The stars indicate how much. Over the holiday break we did a Antonioni retrospective. Very strange to see them again after so many years. And, I renewed my admiration for Monica Vitti!
They tell me Spring will be soon.
