This past week and a half has been a bit of a whirlwind, but in the interest of best preserving the memory of my grandfather I will try to only focus on the good things.

Every now and then I look at some of my older blog entries and then get a bit horrified about how much old crap I have on here that I don't really want people reading anymore (if only because it comes across as horribly narcissistic if nothing else). But going through and cleaning it up is an obnoxious pain. So today I finally did some SQL-fu and had it automatically unpublished all entries older than 3 years except for ones in a few categories which are generally full of stuff I would want to keep around (or which were already friends-only).

I'm sure there's still plenty of stuff that I should remove but I think this is good enough for now. I went from 2300 to 1300 published entries so I've already contributed to a roughly 50% reduction of blog effluvium!

So I got kind of annoyed with how slow my legacy Dreamhost account was getting, so I finally gave in and eschewed a working Bogofilter setup for actually being on a new server which wasn't a horrid NFS-cross-mounted mail-server-on-web-server-storage piece of cruft with constant load levels over 20. Dreamhost was happy enough to oblige, and the server seems to have been migrated just fine. If anyone notices anything wonky, though, let me know, of course.

Thanks again for submitting your work for the Cartoon Art Museum’s Monsters of Webcomics Virtual Gallery.

I’m pleased to say that your work has been selected for inclusion in our exhibition, and will be featured in the Virtual Gallery along with a wide array of webcomics from around the globe. This historic exhibition will include over 100 artists, making this one of the largest exhibitions in the Cartoon Art Museum’s 24-year history, and we’re thankful for your participation.

I am pleased as well! My stuff will be in a museum! I think this is only the second time this has happened.

Here's a full press release of the exhibit, and also you can read more about the goings-on at the Cartoon Art Museum on their LiveJournal.

I will have to finally go to CAM and maybe even meet Shaenon and Andrew in person!

Just FYI, since many of the people who regularly comment on my blog have changed their usernames in other places, the forum here has always allowed you to change your username, if that's the sort of thing you care about.

I go through little fits of doing things with Schadenfood with its original intent (schadenfreude about food-related nuttery) but that's just kind of boring. I think the word "Schadenfood" can also be taken to mean feeding the soul of one who enjoys schadenfreude, and there are a lot of Internet communities which specialize on picking on single things but which are often very badly-implemented (such as using Blogger or crappy wikis or whatever), so as an experiment I've set up a forum on it, which currently just has two sections (food and comics, with some subsections for some particularly discussable comics).

The main thing is I don't want the forum to just be non-stop criticism of things, though. It's more about the revelry about things going wrong, so for example, my intent for the "xkcd" subforum isn't about picking on xkcd so much as laughing at all the drama it makes on the Internet (such as the xkcd sucks "community" and the fact that nearly every single xkcd comic leads to yet another Wikipedia edit war).

Dreamhost had a problem with one of the file servers which they thought was just a minor transitory problem but then ended up being a major problem. Once they realized the severity of the problem they rather quickly fixed it. So now my sites, email, etc. are all back. Hooray!

This is one of the things I was working on last night (and am mostly done with now, though I need to draw a person in running and jumping poses): new 403 error page.

I also have a 404 one in the works, and an oh-so-cute idea for a 500 page (for those rare but sunny times that I break something). I can't do the 500 one until I'm back at home though since I don't have my Logic XSKey with me (and so I can't record the song for it).

Introduction

These are some of the questions I get asked fairly often, and some other questions which some people might have. Mostly it's stuff I actually do get asked regularly though.

Here's a writeup which should at least help other people get MovableType (or anything else which is based on or can otherwise embed PHP) and phpBB working together, if they so desire.

It's not difficult (especially if you already have phpBB set up and working), but it's time-consuming.

2008/03/31 Note that I'm not actively developing this anymore. Notably I have no plans of upgrading it to work with phpBB 3.

2005/02/22 Added a 'url' column to the table; now recent discussion can work a bit better for people who use fancy-pants archive URLs (at least for new installations; if anyone needs help populating their table for existing installations just let me know).

2004/07/02 Added some more anti-spam measures.

2004/11/20 Some more wording changes to hopefully clear up a few parts of the installation.