site news: December 2007 Archives

As you can no doubt tell, I'm on a week long break as I visit the family in Houston, TX.

My regular posting will resume next week when I get back to Miami, though I will no doubt post the random story here or there as I stumble across it (I can't keep away from the Internet for even a week; I'm so weak!)

Until then, Happy Holidays to everyone!

I apologise for the lack of updates recently. I was unable to log into the administration area of the blog for a couple of days, and I spent a good amount of time trying to resolve that issue myself.

I found out today that it was caused by my web hosts upgrading their server software. Since Movable Type isn't completely portable to all OS's, this broke the administration scripts.

Luckily, my web hosting company, Total Choice Hosting, has a great tech support department, so they got my blog back up and running with a few code modifications within a couple of hours after I told them of the issue.

In case any of you out there run into the same issue with your hosts, I'm told the solution is to add the following code into /lib/MT/Bootstrap.pm:

$ENV{'MT_HOME'} = '/home/username/path-to/cgi-bin/mt';

I had tried a similar solution, but apparently in the wrong cgi files. Thanks, Total Choice. I've gotten nothing but good service from them, and they have active MT users among the administration, so it helps a great deal that they know how to help us MT users.

I should be back to my regular posting schedule by tomorrow.

In case you didn't notice in the previous entry below, it was not written by yours truly, but by someone new to theInput!

I've been toying with the idea of adding another author here at theInput, and Clarke has brought some interesting links to my attention and continually impressed me with his own lists of links on his LiveJournal. He's a full fledge linguist, unlike my hobbyist self, so I'm sure you'll see a fair share of linguistics links coming from him.

He'll be a great addition to the bits of detritus collected here.

So without further ado, a big welcome to Clarke Hyrne here at theInput!