Unveiling

I wouldn't quite call it a New Year's Resolution, but I decided this year I wanted to stay a bit more creative - and particularly a little more engaged with the world around me (as opposed to the virtual worlds of gaming/coding/hacking I can turn internal and focus on so easily). So I decided one aspect of that was I wanted to seriously start taking some pictures. The result is a separate blog - which I call Pic-A-Day (well I call it Pic_A_Day - damn programmer semantics :-)) Actually this is why I upgraded Movable Type on New Year's Day - so I had better picture uploading capabilities. I figured I'd run it for a week, and if I was happy with the result then I'd publish the link. Sadly it was around the week mark when I got terribly sick and didn't post for three days. And during that hiatus we found out that comments were broken, so I didn't want to announce it during that mess. And I just got that fixed yesterday, but didn't actually take a picture yesterday (well, I did snap a picture, but I didn't process and post it.) so I couldn't announce yesterday. But here we are and I posted today, so this is the grand unveiling. You can access it at Pic_A_Day. It has a RSS feed available - I haven't patched a comments feed in, but I will soon. I'll also adjust this page's templates so it has the link available. So to review - it's a totally separate blog (technically a photoblog). It has it's own RSS feed (on it's page), separate from here. I might cross-link posts sometimes if I want to get all wordy. We'll see.
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Lazarus Rises From The Ashes

Hoo Boy! One painful day of sysadminning later, my creaky old Red Hat 7.3 box has been upgraded to a sparkly new Fedora Core 3 box. This really doesn't mean anything to the majority of you - except that the fresh MovableType install seems to allow comments again. Drop me a line if anything seems odd, and (cough) if you can't drop a line at the normal email (you should be able to - but it's all brand spanking new as well) then use Gmail. :-) I've got several things stacked up to talk about, but it is after midnight - so I'm going to let this post suffice for now.
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Comments appear broken

So this Movable Type upgrade has been a little funky on my end - the UI is now all screwed up. I was going to live with it until I upgraded the hardware and software underlying this box - but apparently comments are now busted. If you post a comment I get the comment in my email, but it never shows in the blog. I don't know what's up with that. It will probably stay broken until Saturday - and there will probably be some downtime as I fix this.
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