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I officially went ahead and moved Disillusioned over to MovableType5. So far I've found some very interesting things.  Like having to change some coding in the new templates to what I had changed it in the older templates.  Also that for some reason it says Powered By MT4 instead of 5.  I haven't gone looking for the graphic yet and I usually change the color to match the layout, so we shall see what happens.

Also, in order to use this Zemanta plug-in thingiemcbobber you have to type in Rich Text format.  It gives you things you can insert and tags your post with interesting tidbits or something... I'm not entirely sure.  There are links for articles that are a month to 3 years old and images for the little media gallery.  Very cool and high tech.  Whether or not I'll actually utilize this source... well, let's just say I got very annoyed with Xonbi on Outlook over a period of time and decided I no longer needed it.

I've kind of gone through some coding hell.  I always forget to put notes in my css for the layouts where to change header colors, widget header background colors and so forth.  But I am working on it.  Exquisite Designs is a fantastic drove of colors right now and I finally fixed the container on it.  Hopefully it'll work on other monitor sizes.  I get really annoyed when the layouts are all screwed up on other monitor sizes when they shouldn't be.  There's a reason for a container size!  It's not supposed to go beyond a certain point.  It always looks messed up at work but there i have a 19 inch monitor compared to the 14.5 or whatever size I have now.

There are these lovely little 'in-text links' boxes below that I can apply if I want to link to articles or websites containing this information.  The issue with that though is why would I want to?  They aren't giving me a reason to link to them.  Usually that is needed in order to say 'hey go here because I found this and think you might like it as well'...  Ahwell... we shall see.

It also looks like keywords went byebye and tags have stayed to hang around.  I never did get the whole tag cloud thing.. it kind of weirds me out.  Perhaps I'll try it anyway.  I'm off to bed!  Good night, all! Sweet Dreams!

Another thing I've noticed is that I may have forgotten to change some permissions as things keep changing regarding how my comments and so forth are setup behind the scenes.  Will look into this more tomorrow!  Now, officially off.

So there it is, the skipped day. This wasn’t supposed to happen. I was right on top of things. I even had a post in mind, but instead of writing it yesterday on lunch I did something else. I read a few articles. Then I played around with my testing blog for MovableType5. Then lunch was over and I had to get back to work. I decided I’ll just post later when I am home. I got distracted by upgrading the demo-flyer for Ascano Photography which won’t be posted until the final is approved. After that I ended up watching Eureka on Netflix and completely missed the Season Opener for Bones. (Double Dammit!)

I’ve noticed regarding this blog lately that my categories haven’t been showing at the end. I tried adding a tweet button and it didn’t appear. Tags don’t seem to be participating either at the bottom of entries. Then I realized that they are appearing, but on the individual entry itself, not on front page. So that’s working the way it’s supposed to be. Still no tweet button.

Due to the oddities I keep encountering I’ve decided that I am going to move to MovableType5. It’s all for the best. This will happen around the new year. I wouldn’t want to go overboard or anything and take on too much at once. Right? Right. I haven’t even decided what will be kept and what will be discarded. Usually with a new year a completely new face should be revealed. Well, we shall see.

Those are the reasons I forgot to post and the notice that when I do move everything over there will be some down time. See you again soon!

Every week or so I go traipsing through the activity log provided by MovableType to see what’s going been happening. It also includes searches done that pulled the site up. Now, since I don’t use the search widget I figure people are typing their queries into a search engine and getting my site. I don’t know, but this is what I am going by.

I came across one that was very odd. “the fish the cat and the story’ to be precise. I would love to know why that oddball combination brought up my site. So I typed it into Google to see what I’d find out.

I find things like Animal Jokes - Fish and Cat Story. The Story of the Cat and the Fish and even the most famous The Cat in the Hat.

Nowhere on the first page of search results does my site come up. This just makes me even more curious as to why these things would show up there. I’m not really worried about it at the moment but there is a way for me to fix it. I just might get rid of those silly queries after all.

Go check your activity log or webalizer or whatever it is you use and see what kind of crazy searches are done concerning your website. Later!

So I finally (again) installed MovableType 5.12 on a testing subdomain. (If anyone out there wants to check it out, comment and I’ll make you an account.) Basically I didn’t like it previously. I didn’t like the fact that I had to have both a website and a blog. So I ignored it and updated this version when security issues were plugged up.

It appears that MovableType 5.12 has allowed me to create a blog without a website this time around. I do sort of like the layout, although I am used to having navigation at the top instead of on the side.

I’ve noticed that for me it’s a little slower loading. It seems to take a few moments for the system to realize I clicked a link and then when it gets to that page, everything is loaded, or so I think. The little circle on Chrome is going nuts switching from the refresh button to an x showing that something is still loading. I’m not sure what, though. And while I look at the status line at the bottom of the page, it looks like it is trying to load Zemanta, which is something I disabled on this version after being annoyed with it repeatedly. Perhaps a permission wasn’t changed during the upload…. It’s telling me it isn’t able to do its thing. Ok, I had to change permissions on a file, silly me.

I’m currently copying this post to the test blog to see how it turns out over there. I just might download all of my entries and so forth and upgrade all of the blogs to 5.12 if I can truly create blogs without the website option. Ahwell, almost time for me to leave for work. So I shall play some more later and decide in a couple of days. Later.

You can view the test blog here: Testing MT5.

Hey I finally got the goshdernfriggendammitalltohell captcha that comes with MT working. Yay Me! But then again, this time I took the time to figure out what was wrong. Turn out it was the url. You’d think I’d notice such things, but with multiple copies of the same thing with different urls for each it gets a little confusing. It works now, so comment away. Also, all comments are no-follow. For now. Sorry if this upsets you but that’s how I prefer it at the moment. We shall see if it changes! Later.

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There are, of course, stipulations. Using Windows 7, IE 9, requires you to click the compatibility button… yes, so click the compatibility button. Doooo it.

I know I haven’t written in forever and ever and EVER.. and I have no real excuse for it either. Nothing much has been going on lately other than work, house cleaning and the occasional adventure. I haven’t even felt the stirrings of a need for a new layout, which could mean one of two things (or both). My creative muse has taken a very long (or permanent) vacation or I’m just too damn tired after work, making dinner (most nights) and whatever else I try to get done. I’ve also been devouring the Stephanie Plum saga by Janet Evanovich and I’m on book 10 - Ten Big Ones. I also read the latest Anita Blake novel by Laurell K. Hamilton - Hit List in under 24 hours.

My biggest issue though is the time I wait at work for reports to run. The system we use runs just fine. It’s some issue between Excel 2003 and Windows 7 and there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it. It takes anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes for excel to respond once the report is open. I won’t have to deal with that today, which hopefully means I’ll get the reports done today (I’ll be covering the front desk - yay me…) and I won’t have to do anymore.

I’m hoping Microsoft knows about this horrifying issue. I mean, I can’t really do anything else while the report is opening in Excel… I was given another task I could do but for some reason Outlook tells me I don’t have access. (This seems to happen a lot lately… and then access is usually granted if possible.)

So now you know what’s been going on… lots of work, lots of reading, lots of waiting for a program to respond. I had thought about writing a post here and there while waiting or hell, writing a freaking saga (ok, maybe not…) but I haven’t. I don’t know why. I suppose I could just do it in a notebook instead of digitally… I should just do it. I doubt I’d get in trouble for it since I bust my ass every day trying to get all of my work done (except filing… it’s been getting horribly neglected but the people I file for are VERY understanding when deadlines are placed on me that I need to focus on that task and nothing else).

Alright… my rambling for today is done. I make no promises about more posts. But hey, if I come here and just rattle off now and then it’s an effort to get me back into blogging, right? Right! I hope anyone who stops by has a fantastic day. Later!

Due to the new housekitty named Peanut freaking out when I tried moving her about half an inch and ripping out the spacebar and another key on the laptop I ordered a new keyboard. (Details can be found literally right below this post.) Well, that keyboard came today! I can tell you that it’s perfect (so far) in everyway and that it installed so easy I thought there had to be something wrong about to happen. Being as that’s usually how things work and all….

But no, everything is installed properly, everything works, it feels new and happy and …. well at least until the Little Lady decided to molest it … now it just feels dirty and ashamed. Hopefully it won’t require therapy… (/Sarcasm)

New Keyboard Rocks, thank you EBAY! Laters.

(PS. In no way does a new keyboard mean I will blog anymore often than I do now… )