blog related: August 2005 Archives

I've been feeling a little under the weather this past week... I've got a tightness in the chest and it hurts a bit when I swallow. Nothing too drastic, it's not kept me off work or anything like that, but it has made me feel lethargic.

So today I lounged around the house in my dressing gown. I watched Miss Congeniality on DVD (amusing enough to pass a little time but not exactly rip-roaringly funny) and then promptly fell asleep in front of the cricket for six hours. I'm feeling a little less groggy now than I did this morning, but who knows how I'll feel tomorrow.

My ex used to say that I made a bad patient when I got ill. I don't know if that's true or not, but if today was anything to go by, then I'm much better off being left alone to just get better on my own. i don't want anyone fussing over me, and I don't want anyone asking me to do anything around the house when I'm not in the mood. So a day to myself to let my body sort itself out is just what I needed, thank you very much.

I had intended to join a gym today. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks now, and I got an email from them the other day saying it was half price membership until the end of the month. Now I know I'm not in the best of health, and exercise is probably not the best thing to do when you're feeling ill, but I thought I'd take advantage of their offer and then start going next week, or as and when I'm feeling better. I definately need to do something, I can't sit around the house all winter feeling sorry for myself like I did last year.

I've also been spending far too long playing around with the settings on MT 3.2, installing new plugins for the sheer hell of it, and then spending ages working out where I went wrong installing them, heheh. Still, it's a learning exercise. There's a plugin called stylecatcher which will download and install different style sheets from the Movable Type web site (or anywhere else that wants to make style sheets available). This is a pretty good plugin, if only so i can get some ideas about layout and colour schemes and see how they're implemented in the CSS. Unfortunately the style sheets may not work properly with my customised screen layout templates, but it's a neat idea nonetheless. If someone would like to modify the plugin or write a new one to let you download and install templates as well as styles, then that would truly be neat.

I also had a play around with another plugin called EnhancedEntryEditing which provides a full wysiwyg editor for making new entries. This is also pretty neat, but I can't say that i've been crying out for the features it provides. However, the more I look at MT3.2 the more impressed I am with it.

So that where I am today. I'm glad tomorrow's a bank holiday, I can get some errands done that I wasn't in the mood for today (like getting some food in) and hopefully I'll be right as rain for work on Tuesday.

Ooh this is nice........ just upgraded the blog to Movable Type 3.2 and I'm very impressed so far. Not least because my comments are working again, so if you want to leave a note, feel free to do so. The upgrade to 3.2 took about half an hour, most of which was actually spent uploading the new files to the server. I went to log in, it updated the tables and did all its background stuff, and here I am :-) I love it when it all just works right, you know?

Update: I've just installed the MT-InlineEditor plugin and apart from a minor problem on installation which turned out to be something I did when I moved the blog to a new host a couple of months ago (i'd set up the site root as a relative path instrad of an absolute path, in case anyone's interested), all that went fine as well :-)

The plugin works by putting a "click here to edit" link on the individual archive page if I'm logged in to the MT admin area of my blog at the time - so anyone else reading this won't see the link. That's pretty cool stuff - not that I edit my pages much after I submit them in the first place, but you never know....

Oh, and by the way, the upgrade to 3.2 only went as smoothly as it did because of all the hard work the SixApart people have put in to developing it. I've been following the progress of the beta version for a few weeks now and even though I wasn't one of the beta testers myself I can appreciate how much time and effort must have gone into it. A sterling effort, jolly good show, chaps. Now, if I can only find where they've moved everything....

I've just been informed there is a problem with leaving comments on the site.... I'm not sure at the moment what the problem is, but if you do want to leave a comment then use the email link on the left to send me a message.... I'm looking into the comment problem, if I had a clue where to start, that is...