Server move (meta)
Thanks again for submitting your work for the Cartoon Art Museum’s Monsters of Webcomics Virtual Gallery.I am pleased as well! My stuff will be in a museum! I think this is only the second time this has happened.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.
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!
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).
For example, while seeing if I could find any stats about my PSN profile, I came across an aggregator view of my announcement here.
The funny thing, of course, is where my weblog is categorized.
The other thing I found is that Dreamhost has some wonky PHP-injection-detection stuff which makes POSTs fail if it sees various unsafe function names inside a <?php> block. Although this is generally a good idea, it did make it rather difficult to add some logging code to the permalink redirect script (so I can track where old-style permalinks are being visited from, and fixed if possible).
Oh, and sorry for spamming peoples' RSS readers yet again.
Generally this means fixing my DOCTYPEs and removing all />s from my various pages, which is more or less automatic but something might have gotten messed up, so if you see something wrong, please let me know. Also I may have been overzealous and actually messed up a couple of truly XML things (like RSS feeds).
I decided to move my stuff over to Dreamhost. My little Mac mini was getting overworked by serving up so much stuff, and my home DSL connection was getting pretty slow as well. Also, Dreamhost offers a lot of rather nice stuff including a vhosted Jabber server, a pretty nifty file selling mechanism (which I am most definitely considering for any albums I put out in the future), and much better uptime especially considering how often OSX security updates are getting pushed out lately.
It's interesting that so far, all of the sites (and most of the ads) I've seen on it are webcomics. I guess that comes with the territory of it being yet another Internet project run by Ryan North.
9:15 Wow, my first ad already, from someone I haven't even heard of before! Huh.
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).
(It was also yet another stylesheet experiment, which is more fun than the content itself.)
There's still some hinky broken stuff (especially the meta-pages which I haven't gotten around to styling) but I think this works better in general.
I could make it just serve up a special IE6 stylesheet or something (that's easy enough to do) but I really can't be bothered to deal with it right now.
Also it means not getting any of my forum subscription messages. Which makes it even more of a win!
10:21 Yay, my mini is sitting pretty. Er, I mean, my big ol' server rack is. Really.