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Ha HAAAAAH! Triumph Is Mine -- I finally got Movable Type successfully installed! Take THAT, MySQL and all your vile access-denying minions!!

While trying to reconstruct my sidebar for the midsummer release of "Blog II: The Inanity Continues," and prompted by earlier nosing around in bookmarks, I've turned up a random assortment of other interesting sites:

Citrus Moon, which provides a new original tile pattern daily for free--many of which are quite lovely--but also links to interesting art/graphics sites. Today's links are to some lovely sites about Japanese kimono design. (Paging

dargie...) And there was a link to a site I actually had bookmarked at one point, until I lost it -- Iconomy, a strange and intriguing weblog.

Ftrain -- Narratives and other stuff having to do with words.

Gizmodo -- For the gizmo-slut in all of us. A roundup of the newest and coolest tech-toys around, nicely laid out and frequently updated.

Izzle pfaff! Funny ha-ha and funny-odd, both.

Tomato Nation -- However mixed my feeling might be about TWoP, I continue to really like Sars' blog. She's having server/hosting problems of some kind, so this is the current address.

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Yay Movable Type! And yay Kat for triumphing over it!

Er, that's all I had to say.

Somehow your icon contains the essence of you and when I see it, I feel like I'm seeing a picture of you. It's rather amazing. ;) I have also found an actress that reminds me of you--everytime I see her, I get this resonance of you. She hasn't been in much more than a few TV B-movies, and I can't find any real bio info about her online. I feel she must be from Minnesota, though. (Anna said solemnly.)

http://www.sho.com/streettime/kate_greenhouse_bio.cfm

Great links, by the way. I read the "Cryptic Instructions About Food" entry on the izzlepfaff blog. Ha.

Peas are to be worshipped. Unjacket them and admire their green vulnerable nudity. Get nude yourself if you wish. Place one in your bellybutton. Listen to it. It speaks volumes. Learn. Then eat that tasty fucker.

I must read more.

::nuzzling you::

The only time things get dangerous, icon-wise, is when *I* start feeling like I look like the young Patti Smith. And then I come across a mirror, and despondency ensues.

I have a feeling I would recognize Kate Greenhouse; she was in a first-season episode of Nikita, which I should try to dig up and rewatch.

And listen, I may get out to Seattle sometime in August. Will keep you posted as plans ripen.

I found installing Movable Type very easy (compared to using its GUI anyway), my problems started when I tried to use the GUI for the first time to create a new user and delete the preinstalled one, as the manual told me. I accidentally created a user without superuser rights, and the program still let me delete the previous superuser, happily accepting a state without any superuser. A possibility the manual failed to caution against or even mention (like a note that the standard settings for a new user need to be changed if creating the new superuser). Obviously I couldn't fix it within MT, because there was no user with the rights to create users or change permissions anymore. And I couldn't figure out how to fix the permissions in the MySQL database manually, so in the end I deleted the whole database and ran the cgi-script to initialize the database from scratch once again. I still don't like the GUI and I stayed deeply suspicious of it ever since. (um, sorry for ranting in your journal...)

But congrats to your new Movable Type installation.

What made me nutso with the installation was all the path-to-server stuff, since this is something I've never had much of a clue about. The instruction manual definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but I finally found a quickie how-to page somewhere that helped me figure it out.

I still haven't really tackled the templates, but they don't see all that different from Greymatter, so I have hope that I'll figure them out eventually. And yeah, the GUI isn't great. I foresee leaning heavily on the knowledgeable folks in the forums.

I am holding you fully responsible for my foray into CHiPs fanfic this afternoon. I swear I was just following the links above and that's where I ended up.

::snickering:: I adore the CHiPs drinking game. But CHiPs fanfic -- I am SO not going there...

You are a source of excellent linkage.

Thanks! And the number of links I collect is, sadly, directly proportional to the amount of time I spend screwing around on-line rather than working. (At either paid-work or smut-writing-work.)