Steve, here, with the first posting in Ian's upgraded blog.
Notwithstanding my whining comments about Movable Type last week, I did finally manage to migrate Ian's web site to Movable Type 3.14.
Why do you care as a reader? Well, I hope this will boost Ian's morale, by making it easier and more fun to keep this blog!
The new MT will, we hope, reduce the time Ian spends defending against comment spam. There's comment moderation now, and a new version of MT-Blacklist that can do lots more, easier.
At the same time, I made a few other improvements. We're on a much faster server now, with pretty much unlimited disk space. (That'll make my job easier, since I won't have to constantly manage the disk space.) I also switched to a faster, more capable database.
I put a lot of time in on this. I hope it helps Ian stay enthusiastic about blogging, and I hope it helps the readers stay engaged.
Let me know how the new system works for you!
Posted by sbw at January 29, 2005 7:22 PMHere's a first comment, as a test.
The new MT's comment system has moderation features. I'm still learning exactly how moderation works. Evidently you can authenticate your email address here on this site or through TypeKey (ptui!) in order to get your comments approved automatically. But we may not have that turned on yet.
Is this comment approved?
You might want to adjust the fonts on your comment verification page...
fix the cnames!!! xtcian.com no longer points to correct url
Woot!
Hello there,
I'm Chris from England.
Tonight I watched this DVD with my friends:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002CTZS4/qid=1107047681/ref=pd_ka_0/026-1320305-3971628
I found your website by typing the words "ignominies enchantress" into Google.
I'm pleased to inform that YOU ARE A GOOGLEWHACK !
If you don't know what that means, check this site:
http://www.googlewhack.com/
Anyway I just wanted to tell you about this !!!
Cheers !
Chris Smith
Greg: I know the comment "thank-you" page is ugly. Has something to do with upgrading an older MT site to the new MT templates and stylesheets. I'll fix it eventually!
flaco: Thanks for the heads-up! Actually, the cname was correct, but no virtual host was defined for xtcian.com, so it went to the default. I added a new virtual host and redirected it to www.xtcian.com. (On the old server, xtcian.com was just an alias for www.xtcian.com. Now it redirects.)
Wow, I didn't even know this was here until now. Thanks, Steve!
Finally this site shows up in my blogroll as "recently updated." It never did before, so I'd forget to read for a few days and then have to catch up. This is much better. Thanks!
litlnemo: Cool. MT 3.14 includes a "ping" feature, which we've turned on, so weblogs.com and Technorati are automatically notified when it's updated.
But I see you're using Wordpress. Does Wordpress generate the "recently updated" flag from one of those sites? Or perhaps Wordpress uses Ian's RSS feed to watch for updates. (If the latter, I wonder why it didn't work before.)
Any chance we can get a full-post RSS feed now?
Peter: Done! Thanks for the suggestion.