Monthly Archives: April 2004

23rd Post

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Keith told me to:

  1. Go into your blog’s archives.
  2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
  3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Posted on August 18, 2000:

If ever there was a talent wasted by (apparent) lack of motivation…

Page 23

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Drew told me to:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Because the information in the cell is a sort of heading for the entire sidebar, it makes some sense to convert the td to a th.

– Eric Meyer On CSS [ISBN 073571245X]. Page 23, sentence 5.

Please bear with us

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We’re having a little problem with the blog. It can be summarised thus:

  • PlusNet, in their infinite wisdom, installed a new CGI web server.
  • To be fair to them, the upgrade was much needed.
  • But lo! Why did they have to change platforms (Linux to FreeBSD)?
  • In the process, different versions of Perl, DB_File.pm and the associated system shared object were installed.
  • So, whatever I did, I couldn’t do db_upgrade or db_dump/db_load! (a la MT’s Troubleshooting Guide).
  • As far as I know, no warning about the upgrade was given. The first I knew that something was amiss was when my Mother-in-Law couldn’t post a comment on Laura’s blog, also hosted at PlusNet.
  • I managed to dump and restore the database files on my local machine (Redhat Linux), then do a plain-text export using a local MT install.
  • I really am thinking about ditching PlusNet, though, and hosting this site elsewhere.
  • Harrumph.