Category Archives: This Site

Site Upgrade

I upgraded the site to Movable Type 3.34 today and installed mod_fcgid, a FastCGI implementation, which should hopefully provide a few performance improvements. I wish it was easier to merge the latest versions of the default templates with my older … Continue reading

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Bad Hardware Day

The site seems to be running nicely on the old server in the cellar. I’m sure browsing photos isn’t a terribly fast experience any more, but until I can find a reasonably priced hosting provider I can trust, this is … Continue reading

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Gallery Restored

Our photo gallery is back on-line. I was able to bring it back much more quickly than I had first anticipated, because I used an old Gallery 1.x back-up to seed the albums in the Gallery 2.x installation. That copied … Continue reading

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SPF Discrepancies

Bas pointed out to me this morning that those of you who use SPF as an anti-spam measure may be flagging mail you receive from me as spam. This is due to inconsistencies in the answer that DNS is currently … Continue reading

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Pain And Suffering

Much of the last 24 hours has been spent seizing those rare moments during which my server — migrated through no desire of mine to Web Host Plus — is up and on the network, and using them to perform … Continue reading

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