Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Computer stuff
Ok, thanks to this bug report, entering the URL to mt.cgi rather than the weblog URL seems to allow Typekey signins.
However, now I get a complaint that a user name and email need to be provided when a comment is submitted by a Typekey user. I may have some template and/or cookie issues left to resolve. Time to go digging into the default MT3 templates and have a look.
Switched the weblog over to a duplicate copy of my weblog database. After some modifications to the templates, the weblog is now running under MT 3.0B4. Not much has changed as far as the look of the weblog. There are some significant UI changes on the back end though. Looking pretty good MT. Not sure if commenting works though. Registered for Typekey and pasted the Typekey token into the proper section of Weblog Config. When I try to sign in and comment though, I get told that
The site you’re trying to comment on has not signed up for this feature. Please inform the site owner.
I’ll need to mess around some more to figure it out. In the meantime, commenting seems to work. They’ll go into an approval queue and won’t show up until I get around to checking the queue and approving or dumping any comments as I see fit.
I think this is what we need to replace our finicky StorageTek LT700 tape library with.
Found via Jeremy Wright
We now have one of these, a Sony TJ37. The wife decided she just couldn’t wait any longer and decided she needed to have one of these. And since she wanted to listen to MP3s, we needed to get a Memory Stick. Of course that also meant we needed to get a Memory Stick reader for the computer. I decided on one of those multiformat memory card readers that reads CF I/II, SM, SD, MS, Microdrive and several others. I was trying to avoid this Flash media bloat, but now it’s unavoidable. My digital camera uses SM, my PDA uses SD, and now her PDA uses MS. All small little bits ot try and keep track of.
So now, several hundred dollars later my wife has a PDA again, and she can go back to organizing her life again.
It’s actually a pretty nice little unit, although I think Sony could have made it more attractive going with a Virtual Grafitti area (DIA). MP3s are stored and played off the MS card, and pictures can be stored either to RAM or MS card. It even comes with a little strap that you can use to hang onto it with. Put your hand through the strap, and no worries about accidentally dropping the thing. Stylus leaves a lot to be desired though. It’s pretty thin, and I can’t imagine using it to write for any length of time.
Navigating with the jog roller is pretty easy, although the buttons can be a little tough to press. They’re small and nearly flush with the surface, so if you have big fat thumbs or fingers, pressing them might be a bit of a challenge.
The pictures it takes are fairly decent quality. Not great, but acceptable for quick snapshots. Max picture size is 640×480. If I can get it away from her for long enough, I’ll play with it a bit and maybe post a few pictures.
I get to be a beta tester for MT3! I won’t be converting over right away though. I thought I’d set up a duplicate database and test the beta using that so that I can iron out what changes I’ll need to make to my templates. So for a little while, I’ll be running parallel weblogs.
Upgrading the MT database was pretty simple. Had everything up and running in a matter of a few minutes, although I haven’t rebuilt an of my weblogs yet. I’ve recently run into few issues with plugins that I’m trying to sort out. After I get those resolved, I’ll start messing around with MT3.
Looking forward to this.