It seems that mblog has gone belly-up, so my old blog site is gone. Thankfully, I had exported all of my old posts to a file when I bought this domain. I keep running into a problem importing them, though. It will start importing the old entries, and will do 10, 20 or more of them and then it will suddenly give me an error message that says the mySQL database is gone. But of course it's not gone, it's still there. So I'm stumped by it. I have two choices. I can continue to import the files 10 or 20 at a time, then going back and editing the exported entries file to take out the ones that got added before the error message, then re-upload the file and start again...or I can just add them in one at a time manually. Either way, I will eventually move all of my old posts over to here. I've already started on that project and about 4 months worth is now here that wasn't before. I will also have to go back and edit those entries at some point to add paragraph tags. I'll get it done eventually, so don't fret. In the meantime, some of my newer readers may wanna go back and peruse some of the older posts.
Renovations
If you havent heard, Richard Dawkins is cruising around Antarctica right now-- Theyve upgraded internet abilities since I went, so he has been able to upload some Tweets and some
This is the third in our six or seven part series on how to use Linux if you are a regular smart person who needs a functioning computer but is not a geek. Today, a few items to know about files.
The micro-SD flash memory chip that came with my new smartphone has some interesting issues with data integrity. I mostly use it to store sound files in the mp3 format, both pop songs of a few MB each and podcasts taking up tens of megabytes.
Summary: Lott now claims that an incriminating file where he had been caught cooking his results was not meant to have been on his website and was only there because his webmaster screwed up. Unfortunately, his latest story is full of holes.
When I imported my old blog to MT 3.1 I didn't have any problems, other than the ones I created myself. (Kwickcode issue.)
This appears to be a database problem, not an MT problem specifically. But I know nothing whatsoever about databases.
Hi Ed, I'll bet it's the buggy version of MT, 3.01D, that you're running. I'd upgrade to 3.11 if I were you. Lots of things magically fix themselves when you upgrade. The import bug that you describe may be one of those things. In any case, it will not hurt to upgrade.
I agree with Brent, you should definatly upgrade your version of MT.
Holy cow, I just downloaded the upgrade for MT and it looks more complicated than my initial install! And for some reason, my FTP program keeps wanting to create new directories rather than overwriting old ones. I'm gonna screw this up royally, I can tell. Can't I just pay one of you guys to do it for me? LOL
You don't need to pay me, but I'll be happy to set it up for you. Just email me the needed information.