100 word minimum

Easy peasy

So, the site is all on the new host now, the domain's been transferred, and it's running on Movable Type 3.2.

It looks the same, though, doesn't it?

One new thing is an RSS feed for the comments:

http://100wordminimum.org/comments.xml

Not that there are a lot of comments, but if you're using an aggregator to read the blog, there it is. This is something I could have implemented in the old version, but I never got around to it. All I had to do was find a template and set it up.

Another new thing is comment moderation. If you post a comment, I get to see it before it gets published. If you're planning to post 50 comments with links to your online pharmacy/insurance/porn site, it won't ever make it onto the blog, not even for a minute, so don't bother. If you're posting a proper comment, there may be a slight delay between your posting and publication, but that's all.

The MT upgrade and transfer to a new host turned out to be exactly as easy as signing up. I've heard enough stories about what can go wrong, that I prepared for every eventuality, backing up files in different forms for every eventuality, making notes on my file structure, constant obsessing. But all I had to do was sign up (I picked a Movable Type hosting partner) and include a note in the Special Instructions field about how I would be coming to them from version 2.64. They moved my files over and ran the upgrade for me. As far as I can tell, everything is where it's supposed to be.

The one thing I had to do on my own was set up hotlink protection. My new host isn't using cPanel, which would do it for me, and I had to set it up myself because within a few hours after the transfer, hotlinks started popping up in my referral logs. Shocking hotlinks, like the kid (I'm assuming) on a pony forum who had a sig with three screens of hotlinked pony pictures!

Anyway, I looked around and found a site which would generate the necessary code for me, ran into some minor issues (immediately corrected by my host) with my text editor inserting extra characters into my code. I thought I was using a safe text editor, but it seems not.

Now I think I've got things how I want them, but I'm sure I'll find more tinkering to do.

What else did I do today? I got some work done and watched France vs. Togo while I was messing with my code. We picked up the mass market paperback of The Hallowed Hunt yesterday and I've been devouring that. I think this means I've been kind of a lazy slug.