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Typepad has just gone through a free (and involuntary) 'upgrade'. One consequence of this is that the last post is wonky -- it appears on the page, but not on the edit screen. (I didn't know that was possible.) When I hit "list posts" it's just... absent. More to the point, it's not taking comments.
So, comment here if you're so inclined. (And if you run into any other problems, please drop me a note.)
[six months later] Comments closed due to spam. I'll start another thread in a bit...
Yeah, not so much posting lately. Life in Fladungen doesn't seem conducive to it somehow.
Also, right now I'm a single parent. Claudia is in the US with the baby -- she'll fly back on Election Night. So, hands full.
I'm thinking I might try the "post every day for a month" thing again. Did it last November, yah? Hum, that doesn't seem a year ago.
Few remaining readers: is there anything you'd like to see?
Lawyer: But what about that tattoo on your chest? Doesn't it say, "Die, Bart, Die?"
Bob: [conciliatorily] No, that's German for "The Bart, The."
[The spectators laugh, understanding]
Officer: No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
As you may recall, our friend Noel Maurer has emigrated to his own blog. He's posting up a storm there, on all kinds of interesting stuff, so go and check it out.
Meanwhile, though, he still has dozens of posts here in our archives. And people googling for, let's say, "Noel Maurer"? Are still more likely to end up here than there.
So we're gradually deleting his old posts. This is going to take a little while, because we, um, removed his "author" tag when he left. Which means that instead of being able to just filter all his old posts and zap them in five minutes, we'll have to hunt them down by hand, which will take a little while. On the plus side, it's an excuse to read stuff by Noel! Which is always good.
Meanwhile: Noel Maurer Noel Maurer Noel Maurer Noel Noel Noel Maurer Maurer Maurer welcome interweb searchers! Now just click on this link and you're off!
Well. This is my last post.
There's not much to say. My co-bloggers and hosts have been great, as have my non-disturbed readers. But this is just not giving me what I'm looking for.
To keep this from sounding like the reading of a will, here's a piece of movie glory from 1968:
Leaving for the US at 4:45 this morning.
(Actually, leaving for Germany; if all goes well, I'll meet Claudia and the boys in Munich, and we'll all fly together onwards to DC. Fingers crossed for that.)
So this might be my last post of the year. Yah, there are several uncompleted posts out there -- the lake, the Ministerial visit, Armenian history. I plan to get back to them, but it may be a little while.
Meanwhile, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all our readers. Thanks for stopping by, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
Also known as NaBloPoMo. The goal is to post something every damn day for the entire month of November. There's a cute logo, which my wife has up on the other blog.
Lately my posting has been more like one post per month. Maybe this would be a way to get back into it?
Who's with me?
Welcome to our new site! It's basically the same old thing, but better - it's faster, so we're happier, and maybe we'll even post more! Who knows!
Importing four years worth of blogging is no small feat... So it will be a while before we've moved everything over here. In the meantime you can still read the archives over at the old Halfway House (hah, I'm funny!). As soon as we've finished a few administrative things, we can also sort the posts by author - this will also take a bit of time.
So. Welcome. We're glad you came.
Are there any MT utilities which will allow a non-primary MT user to extract their posts and comment threads and save them to one's hard disk? I've been doing it by hand, and it is the most mind-numbing tedious unpaid task I've performed in some time. Any help would be vastly appreciated.
Update: Another 500 Internal Server Error from posting this. I get those about 80% of the time now. It's kind of creeping me out.
Are there any MT utilities which will allow a non-primary MT user to extract their posts and comment threads and save them to one's hard disk? I've been doing it by hand, and it is the most mind-numbing tedious unpaid task I've performed in some time. Any help would be vastly appreciated.
Update: Another 500 Internal Server Error from posting this. I get those about 80% of the time now. It's kind of creeping me out.
I'm leaving this blog. If you like, you can check my new home.
I'm leaving this blog. If you like, you can check my new home.
I'm in Kosovo again this week.
I haven't been posting much because I've been busy. (Telecom stuff. Much more interesting than I would have thought.) Claudia hasn't been posting because she's a single parent with two small children, one of whom has the croup, and a baby who's decided to try on "fussy" for a few days. Both these situations are likely to continue until next week, so it may be a little quiet around here.
Claude did find time to post a few new pictures on the spawnblog. So there's that.
If time permits, I'll try to post something about the curious state of telecommunications in Kosovo. (Still a state monopoly, but they're getting dinged on termination fees.) Meanwhile, consider this an open thread. What do you want to talk about?
Today (or, over the next few days, as time and talent allow) I will upgrade our current MT install. We are hoping for faster speeds and other little gizmos. It might go off without a glitch - but then it might not. I'm doing this on the weekend because the traffic is much slower then, but it will take me some hours even in the best of cases.
Thanks for your patience!
There seems to be a little confusion about who is who on Halfway down the Danube. I've compiled this little guide to clear things up.
This is my friend Doug. A self-made man, he's quite a guy.
This is Claudia. She's gorgeous. She's one lady who knows how to take care of herself.
By the way, my name is Carlos. I take care of both of them. Which ain't easy, 'cause when they met, it was murder!
I hope that clears things up. All of us are a little busy at the moment, but we hope to post more soon.
Comments are re-opened. Come and celebrate with us! (We still don't know what the problem is but it doesn't seem to be the comments. Anybody else have a problem with MT slowing down a server by spawning multiple processes?)
I'm sorry, people, but our MT install has some problems with the comments. The server we're hosted on comes to a standstill every time someone posts a comment here. I am on it, but it may take a day or two, so please be patient. Until then, out of courtesy to all other bookcase users, we need to shut the comments down.
I'll let you all know when things are back to normal again.
To celebrate, I hereby declare this an OPEN THREAD.
We are not posting, it's true. That is because I'm in Germany with the kids and have little time to spare. Doug was working hard all week and is on his way to the airport as I'm typing this (safe travels, love). He'll arrive in time for the presents German style (Christmas Eve). The kids will also get presents tomorrow morning - American style. Lucky kids!
We will try to write some but it's not a promise. Also, I'm sure you have better things to do than reading blogs during the holidays, eh?
Anyway, we wish you all very Happy Holidays, if applicable, and generally a nice time to all. Enjoy family and good food, exotic locations or hometowns, take it slow and unwind. Hugs all around,
Claudia
I'm done with the upgrade. There was a little "huh?" moment when I had to execute some cgi-scripts and had no idea how to do that. After fooling around with WS_FTP (didn't work) and Putty (didn't even get to the right directory), I called my brother, the physicist. He told me to put the URL of the script into my browser. Who'd have thunk it so easy?
Then we had some glitches with the main menu style sheet which I managed to solve by myself -- don't ask me what I did. It's like looking for things in a dark room when I do software.
Anyhow, we're done and things remain as usual for you, dear readers.
And now go vote, if you haven't already.
We are upgrading our Movable Type software. I hope everything will go without a glitch, I did prepare thoroughly. Likely though, something catastrophic will happen. In this case, please refer to this mirror. It's just a safety net, a trial version of Typepad that we're using to get over those hours or days of fooling around with the new 3.121 version of MT. I hope we don't have to use it for too long -- it expires after 90 days, so I better hurry, eh?
I have to say, I like Typepad just fine. However, we'd need a multiple-author, HTML-editing license and that's the most expensive one. My dear Scot and I decided that's too much to pay if you can do it for free.
Anyhow, here we are -- I'm doing the upgrade. See you all soon, I hope.
We are trying - between one thing and another - to keep this blog interesting and convenient for our readers.
The interesting part can be argued with, the convenient part has been improved somewhat: for those who don't want to bother with RSS feeds (I love them but not everybody does), but don't feel like checking in every day to see whether your erratic hosts have actually deemed to write something, you can now subscribe to our blog. Whenever there is a new entry, you'll be notified via email.
I'm off to Germany for Benjamin's funeral. Doug stays behind with our school boy but he's busy, so it might be quiet for some days. Here's something cheerful as an ersatz.
... Carlos!
Carlos, aka Coyu, well known in cyberspace for his erudition, knowledge and lack of patience with trolls, the ill-informed and the stupid, has been our guest (in real life) for the last two weeks. We had a delightful time and he walked miles and miles in the city and found all sorts of interesting things we had no idea existed.
He's back in the US now but he promised to write down his impressions of Bucharest and Romania and guest blog a little for us. I hope you enjoy his contribution. His icon, BTW is this:
(It's a tiny little joke on my part. Carlos is a two-fisted coffee addict.)
OK, Carlos. Now it's up to you. Write, write, write!
Heh. I guess you thought I'd died or something but no. I was just very busy flying around the globe and dealing with Astral to finally get the cable internet connection installed that we ordered in February. It's a long story and not amusing but in the end, we prevailed. We now have a super speedy 24/7-online-and-not-blocking-the-phone-ever-again internet connection. And boy, does it feel good. OK, so it's not quite as speedy as my friend Natalie's broadband in Bethesda, MD, but it's SUCH an improvement over how things were. I'm so thrilled. Internet is fun again!
It will also be much more fun posting now, since I don't have to wait for two minutes for the interface to open. Happy us.
In updating our blogroll, we inexplicably missed not one but three of our favorite blogs. So, here they are.
First, The Glory of Carniola. This is an excellent new blog about Slovenia. I particularly like today's post. Something about the expression on Europe's face...
Second, Perfectly Imperfect. One woman's life here in Bucharest. Tina has been one of our loyal readers for a while now, so we were delighted to find that she had a blog too.
Third, @rgumente. As far as I know, this is the only English-language blog dealing with Romanian business and economic issues. And it's good.
Check 'em all out.
(Meanwhile, I have the nagging feeling that we've still forgotten someone. Damn. This is what having small children will do to you. Well... please don't be shy, whoever you are.)
Doug announced some days back that he is guest-blogging over at tacitus. We were also invited to blog at a new outfit, Living in Europe. Since we're pressed for time at the moment, we'll probably start out by recycling posts from here over there but eventually we might just post about topics which don't quite fit here but would there (like, politics in Europe, etc.).
In the course of this, I'm also updating our blog roll. [I was tempted to throw out everybody who is not linking back to us -- but alas, we're just a small blog and can't really afford vengenance. ;-)].
So, I've added Living in Europe, of course. It's a group blog, currently in Beta test mode, about -- the name says it all -- living in Europe. Check it out, you'll get a very good impression how diverse and wonderful this continent is. (Says the proud European.)
Then, I started reading a German blog, Ostblog. If you understand German, it's an interesting blog about the former DDR and today East Germany. Very interesting and educating.
I have thrown out the link to Instapundit. I linked to him because everybody does which is a bad reason to link to someone to begin with. I also do so not agree with his political views that I can't actually justify a link. (Why didn't I do this earlier? Oh, I'm a mother -- short memory deficiency, lack of time, short attention span, the works... )
Happy reading, everyone.
I've joined the team over at tacitus. I won't be blogging there every day, but I expect to post at least occasionally.
It's a much bigger and busier blog than this one, so it'll be an interesting new experience. We hope.
Over the next few days, we'll be adding some more blogs that we're reading to our blog roll. I added some links a few weeks back without acknowledging it in a post -- apparently that is the blog-correct thing to do. So [drum roll], today I added Charlie Stross' blog.
Charlie is a friend of Doug's, a shwi person, a very good and published SF author... and if you are curious now and want to know more, go to his blog and read his stuff (and then go and buy his books -- royalties are good for him).
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