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Blogging again

harry — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:36:59 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, almost two years. I got sick of Movable Type. The pings and trackback spamming were driving me insane. It’s pretty awful when managing the blog frustrates you to the point that you don’t blog. With Wordpress, I can hopefully start again. There’s been so much going on lately that I have to comment on it.
I managed to export all my old posts from MT and it was a 28 MB file. This was a pain to try to import into WordPress. I looked at the export and almost all of it is spam pings and trackbacks. I truncated the mt_tbping and mt_trackback tables. Now my export is only 300k. Wow, that was a lot of spam. I’ll probably look through it later to see where it came from to see if there’s something to learn.

The funny thing is, I look through some of these old posts and I wonder why I even bothered. I’m sure it’ll help my PageRank though. lol.

Find is good

Harry — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 04:17:29 +0000

You’ve probably found yourself at a UNIX shell prompt and said to yourself, “Self, I need to search through all these directories and files to find the file that has a particular string. Is thing going to be hard? Damn, I wish I had a smart friend who had a blog who would help me out in these situations.” Well, your dreams have come true.

find . -type f -exec grep -i “particular string” {} \; -print

This command will recursively search the directories, starting from where you’re at (substitute the ‘.’ if you want a different directory). It will then execute a particular command (in this case a grep) and finally print out all files that meet the success condition of your exec command. The type parameter just says, “Look at the files only Mr. UNIX OS.”

Do you love me now? or are you wishing I posted something like this?

Website Changes

Harry — Sat, 12 Apr 2003 05:23:34 +0000

I’m changing the website some. I wanted to move away from the standard Movable Type templates and get something a little more interesting going. You’ll notice that I’ve removed the calendar, because all it did was remind me that I didn’t post on a regular basis. People have calendars all over their computers, they don’t need mine. Now there is a place where the most recent comments appear to hopefully encourage some dialogue. I guess I should put some more things to talk about. Heh heh.

I’ve also added a categorization of my posts. I’m working on properly categorizing my posts, so now you have a way to look at a certain topic. I’m sure some people are interested in money things, so Money Matters is a good category for them. It’s also kind of cool to see what things I write about most. At least for me it is. I’ve moved the archives down to the bottom of the right hand side. I’ll probably change a few more things before my trial copy of Dreamweaver MX expires.

If any of you want to know the changes I’ve made to Movable Type, just let me know in the comments.