People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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As far as I can tell, the host I’m currently using has an unacceptable amount of packet loss in their data center, to the point where access to services like this website are severely impacted. This has happened before a few weeks ago and if it keeps going on, I’ll have to move to another provider again. In a few words: I can’t afford a provider I’m happy with.
The company hosting my server hiked their rates by 8% a while ago and now they’re set to jump by another 28%, with absolutely no value added. I’m waiting for a new server elsewhere to get activated and then I’ll move all my stuff again. A quick glance at their support forum confirms that I’m not the only unhappy soon-to-be-ex customer.
Well, well, well. The server locked up more and more frequently and finally wouldn’t stay up for more than minutes. As it turns out, there were two problems—a disk with bad sectors and much more importantly, a failed CPU fan. I ended up rebuilding the box from backups; hopefully everything important is back in working order.
I just upgraded the server’s operating system to the most recent version. Everything looks fine to me after a cursory glance, but if you notice anything odd, please let me know.
Consi pointed out a glitch - some old comments showed up blank.
As best as I can tell, between several forced Drupal upgrades, a certain Javascript WYSIWYG editor in use at the Drupal site for some time, and the conversion to Expression Engine, some character conversion issues resulted in junk characters, which prevent EE from rendering the comments.
I’ve also noticed that a few articles are truncated for the same reason. I’ll be fixing these things up, but it’ll take a while. For now, I think I’m done with 2004….
Squirt was the first to notice and comment on the appearance of tags.
Just like Les over at SEB, I sprung for the Solspace Tag module. It basically attaches keywords (tags) to articles and does a few funky things, like display a tag cloud. It’s so Web 2.0-y that I just couldn’t resist.
For many sites, categories are somewhat inflexible and a bit of a hassle to maintain. With the old Drupal site, I had a choice between a traditional category system (taxonomy in Drupal parlance) or what they call free tagging, which is pretty much what the Tag module does for Expression Engine. The advantage of free tagging is that these tags can be created on the fly, without administrative intervention—although this invites abuse by spammers if not carefully managed after all.
I’m trying to figure out if it makes more sense to abandon the categories in favor of tags or if tags are better suited as an adjunct to categories. There clearly is overlap and it remains to be see what’s more convenient in practice. If you look at the bottom of the publishing form, you’ll notice a tags field at the bottom. It holds a comma-separated list of tags…
By the way, Les uses an either-or approach. The Tag module currently lacks a script that harvests existing categories or a pre-existing keyword field, so you have to tag articles manually. Les uses categories for untagged entries, and the tags otherwise.
...to a new version. Time spent: Five minutes—i.e. including the download time, reading the docs, and actually doing it. Upgrading all sites, including SIMU and the EE Core stuff: another ten minutes.
If you see this, it should be obvious that I switched the site from Drupal to EE.
The Drupal site is at http://dr.fallacio.us/ - until further notice…
I’m busy with cleaning up stuff, but as soon as I come up for air I’ll make it obvious how to submit content.
Please leave comments here if you have any questions. Unless you can’t submit comments…
(And Deadscot too, I suppose ...)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/27/eu.breast.cancer.reut/index.html
EU calls for Europe-wide breast cancer screening
You can start with the beaches and work your way inland ... 
The Guardian: Cheney Says Hopes of World Rest on U.S.
Vice President Dick Cheney cast the global war on terror on Tuesday as a “war of nerves,” borrowing a phrase Harry Truman used to describe the Cold War. Cheney asserted that the hopes of the civilized world depend on a U.S. victory.
``We are not going to let down our guard,’’ Cheney told a convention of automobile dealers. He said President Bush “will not relent in the effort to track the enemies of the United States with every legitimate tool at his command.”
About those tools that are of questionable legitimacy, to put it very mildly?
“The war on terror is a test of our strength, a test of our capabilities, and above all a test of our character,” Cheney said.
Our strength and capabilities, as witnessed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our character, as witnessed in Abu Ghraid, Guantanamo, warrentless wiretapping, and legislation to remove habeas corpus. Looks like we’re failing the test across the board, eh.
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