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Let me tell you. If you can even read this, that’s great… but who knows for how long. My shitty ass web hosting service decided a couple of days ago that they were not so committed to sparkle motion and shut my shit down FOR NO REASON. Then, when I alerted them to their indiscretions, they were like, “oh, we didn’t know. We will look into that”. ASS. So, I have bought myself a new hosting package over at bluehost, and will be transferring my site over there over the next couple of days. This was honestly the last straw with ace-host; so now, I am off. I will leave this up for a while, so all of you that actually do read my site don’t think that I have abandoned you. There is still love. There is still no doubting my commitment to the motion. I just want to make it bigger and better for all of you. Stay tuned. Good things will come. (and please be patient, because we all know that when I do move the nameservers over, it is like a BS 24 hour wait or something…)

See you soon!

I have spent a good deal of time tonight getting my photos I took when I was home for Thanksmas ready for my flickr page (yo, I am a pro now! thanks… deb!). Also, in that time, I decided, for those of you keeping score, that I would add a ton of new banner images to the top banner. Here’s hoping your experience is fresh every time you come. I don’t want you to get that “not-so-fresh” feeling when you stop by. Also, feel free to take a delectable bite out of my bandwidth and let the juices from the new banners run down your cheeks, by holding shift and refreshing a lot. I know I did… (but don’t go crazy… you do want to stay fresh right?)

Late night:
Belly – Seal My Fate

So last night, I posed the question of whether or not to switch away from the breast milk that I have used to feed my child since birth, i.e. Movable Type, to formula or something “better”, i.e. WordPress or another equally good blogging software. While many of you agree that a move to WordPress is undeniably the way to go, I wish to provide you with a few more pieces of anecdotal evidence, as to help you understand, and perhaps, to gain compassion for my steady hold on good ole MT.

First of all, I know MT. We are old friends. In fact, I switched to it from b2evolution because of how easy it was to use (remember, I said use, not install). When I was with b2evolution, the main reason I left, was because I didn’t feel like I had any control of templates or anything, and most of all, I really hated the MySQL database feel; which incidentally, was one of the main reasons I opted not to use it for my MT database. I felt like I had no control over MySQL, and while I feel I may not know enough about it, I know enough to know that my server has MySQL database use restrictions, and I have seen what those can do… it ain’t pretty. An ugly “you abused your MySQL privileges bitch” message instead of your blog. Not nice. So there’s that; my aversion to MySQL (which WP totally cannot work without). (btw… I use Perl, so Amber or whomever, I don’t know if that means anything to you)

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Now, I know what you may be thinking; telling MT to rebuild won’t make it necessarily rebuild. In fact, clicking on rebuild doesn’t even make it rebuild half of the time. I wanted to post this, in order to see if there are others out there that are still using MT, and if you are experiencing similar issues as myself: whenever I try to rebuild my site (which has about 200+ entries and over 800 comments; not to mention categories), it usually snags up, and times out. I can’t seem to get it to stop doing this, and is progressively more annoying each time it happens. Should I just switch to WordPress (or something equally awesome and better than MT)??? Should I try and learn something that would be practically “impossible” to me; i.e. learn how to use php or something else to build/modify my own system (if so, we need to be reasonable here… I don’t want to undertake something that will take months to do)? Or, can this problem be solved easily? Help me out here folks! I know there are tons of smart, smart web people out there! I am at my wits end, and I have started pulling out my gorgeous hair.

And, the irony here lies in the fact that I must now rebuild the site, in order for you to see this entry. NICE!

Hung Over. That is what I feel right now because of the activities that I engaged in last night. I had been hearing about, and was even invited to a previous, Atlanta blogger meet up; better known as the Atlanta People With Blogs Who Get Together To Drink (APWBWGTTD), but had never gone for one reason or another. Not bad reasons, of course, but, for one, I have never really entered into activities where I don’t know anyone. I have also never gone to a bar alone. Seriously. I have always had people with me. Think whatever you will about that, I’m not ashamed.

Regardless, last night’s meet up was at the Limerick Junction in the Highlands; a bar that I have never been to. When I got there, I didn’t see anyone that looked like they may be of the ATL blogger group, so I ordered a drink. My fear of going to bars alone was now a reality, and I quickly decided that I needed to find these people. I totally and uncharacteristically, approached a group that were luckily the bloggers. First try… thank GOD. I must say that all in all, it is a great group, and I had a great time!

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Those of you that graciously come to my site, and those that happen to get really super bored and look through the archives (which, by the way, are not boring, and are actually filled with juicy goodness and marshmallow filling), will notice that I have never, to this day at least, participated in a meme or other blogger grouped activity. The reason, I guess, is because I have never tended to be a follower or a participator, and not because I look at that as a bad thing; in fact, I am pretty much the weird one that usually sits just over there, on the periphery. I guess, I just never really got into making toys with the others; I guess, I just wanted to be a dentist.

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I did some fucking with the stylesheet, so that the perfectionist in me could be happy; you are supposed to see a random image at the top in the banner. If you don’t let me know, and offer some suggestions on how to fix it. It is a php script, yo. If you want to change the image, use the usual control+shift+refresh. It should make it move on to something else… hopefully. UPDATE: It apparently isn’t random… if you have a script that works to call the image THROUGH CSS, and randomly displays images (for reals), give it to me!

Also, James and I went to Krispy Kreme for some unknown reason today, and after sitting in there for the amount of time it took to consume the very few donuts we ate, I feel like shit. The thought of eating another donut makes me want to hurl. Does that mean that I never indulge, and thus my body doesn’t like it? Or is it my self conscious side getting me back for being a glutton? At least I wasn’t like the bear daddy in front of us in line; he practically bitched the girl out, to make sure she wouldn’t stack his hot donuts. Geez… he knew his donuts.

I often wonder what people see when they come here; do they just read the current entry and move on, or do they actually explore the site? I guess I am wondering how many people look at the other things that I have on here, that is, other than the blog stuff (not saying that the blog stuff isn’t enough to look at, but one does wonder). I have put many, many hours into building my own little home in cyberspace, and while I don’t feel the need to pressure people to check it out, a little piece of me tingles when someone mentions that they read some poem I wrote, or liked some movie that they watched because of one of my reviews. Feedback makes you feel good; hence why we are all blogging, right? But I digress. I don’t need constant feedback, but I am curious if any of my readers check out the other stuff, such as that stuff that is linked under “want more than the blog?”? I occasionally get an email or a comment under “just want to say hi”, and I know that some people are, but I guess I was just curious if the other stuff was too inconspicuous, and that may be why more people aren’t “jumping on board”. By a round of applause, how many of you check out the other stuff? And do you have suggestions on how I can make it so future people will want to do so? Let me know what you think. And then check the shit out. Damn.

PumpUpTheJam(s):
Cascada – Every Time We Touch (club mix)
Eurythmics – I’ve Got A Life

So, tonight, I decided that it was necessary to upgrade to MT 3.2. I was installing it for a friend, and decided that he shouldn’t be the only one to enjoy the increase in features. So here it is. I don’t think that it changes RSS feeds or whatever that shit is, so hopefully, you won’t have to do anything if you subscribe to those. HOPEFULLY, you won’t even be able to notice that I did a thing; at least, if I did it right! Let me know ASAP if you notice anything is off…

(upon looking around, I haven’t found anything that I haven’t been able to fix, except one thing; I think that I fucked up the XML RSS 2.0 thingie… can anyone advise as to how to fix that??)

Now, maybe I am bitching to the wrong group (and that is HIGHLY possible, because we all know that more people than not use Blogger; which for the record, I am totally fine with, so don’t even go there), but it irks me to no avail that there are so many fun blogs out there that I want to show the love, and comment, and I can’t; because I am not a “Blogger” blogger. Now, I went through all of the tedious work to build all this grandness that you see before you, and I love what I have, but I don’t use Blogger; cause I don’t need to. Not saying that anyone else does need it, I am just saying that I don’t need it. I like Movable Type much better, and so, it suits me. Lots of people hate MT, but I don’t take any offense to that.

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