But my uncle's blog has working comments (and a nice captcha validation mechanism) and I don't. I turned off comments a year or two ago because of idiot spam attacks and I never got around to turning it back on. Now, while he is pretty technically competent for an one of his advanced age [insert smiley], it's just an epic tragedy that his site works and mine doesn't. It's even got that little Leica shutter "click" when you enter the site.
I hate bowing to his magnificence.
So I've resolved that my Christmas (yes, I'm giving myself a ton of time so there will be no excuses) I'll make some serious mods to this site. I'm going to put in a new Flash-based photography gallery, turn on comments, and upgrade to the latest version of MovableType. This should allow me to also write more entries from my soon-to-be-purchased MacBook Pro, rather than having to login to the MT engine to write stuff.
Sadly, I'll likely move away from my current service provider as well. Nice chaps but the technology limitations, too frequent down-time, and general system weirdness give me the motivation to go with a major player. They're local people, and quite nice but I need a site that is always up.
Frankly, I think my biggest challenge will be migrating my current content. Let's hope that it doesn't take me a week. There was a bunch of custom coding I did to integrate this blog with the site design.
Posted by artandscience at October 5, 2007 07:54 AM