jefftidball.com's Big Movement
Other than being busy with three writing projects at once (plus having, you know, a job), and other than general sloth, one of the things that has blocked blogging for the past three weeks has been the nightly automated nastygrams from my hosting provider's computer that I was coming perilously close to exceeding my storage limit, and if that happened a variety of nasty technical barfage would occur.
So, after putting it off for a while, I called my ISP up to upgrade my hosting account. They told me that my old hosting package was so crusty that they no longer offered it or its kin anymore — in fact, that it was hosted in its own ghetto neighborhood of their network — and in order to upgrade I'd have to move all of my files and things to an entirely new system of servers within the Nation of Cedant. Which was fine, since I was getting a bunch of new hosting features and 13 times the storage space for what amounted to the same price as the old plan, providing I paid for a year in advance.
But, of course, moving all the files and re-installing Movable Type on the new servers (with their slightly different Perl configuration and the opportunity to upgrade MT to an SQL-based installation), became a task. And tasks must go to the back of the line and wait until other, more urgent tasks are finished.
But, anyway, it's all done now.
Mostly.
You'll note that the entire polling apparatus of Choose or Perish is gone. Bye! Maybe some other polling package will come back in the future, if I can find a better (but still free) piece of software to replace PollIt. For now, not worth the effort.
1,000 Blank White Cards has also gone away. Keeping it going when I originally upgraded from Blogger with cgicomments to Movable Type involved a horrific kludge that there was no way I was re-kludging. Perhaps 1KBWC will restart from square one (card one, rather) at some point in the future. (Do follow the 1KBWC link. I was greatly amused to discover that BoardGameGeek has a 1KBWC page. What a great site.)
There are still a few other outstanding, niggling issues. I haven't gotten the script that rotates quotes working yet, for example, and I'm manually moderating all comments until I get something up and running to do it for me. Nevertheless, I judged things close enough to re-point the domain name.
So here it is, and here you are. How nice for all of us.
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I wish I'd known you were revamping. I just did the same thing. When my brother-in-law decided to give up hosting, it left me out in the cold. I decided to give up on MT entirely and switched to WordPress. BlueHost.com has great prices and a one-click install, and WordPress imported all my old posts seamlessly. I'm a much happier blogger these days.
I suppose the 330 or so BWCs that were there are gone. I had originally hoped to make them into a real deck and illustrate them when we got to 1000. Sigh. If there is any way to get them, I'd appreciate it.
The cards themselves survive in the archive copy I made of the whole hosting directory before I abandoned it. However, cgicomments kept them all mashed together in a single file full of, you know, file garbage.
You're welcome to it, though, if you want it. They can probably be pulled out as text without too much find-and-replace in a decent text editor.