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[katallison]

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.

Comments

[ratcreature]

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.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

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.