Fresh start with OpenMelody

Looks like things are running pretty well on OpenMelody so far. Left behind all the plugins, so everything is plain vanilla Melody. I might bring a few things back, but I’m kind of liking this clean uncluttered DePo theme.

Still not sure what the deal was with the error I was having with the dynamic archives. It still happens seemingly randomly as I’m clicking on things in the back end and publishing stuff. Might have to resort to posting a question somewhere.

In a couple of weeks, this blog will be heading into its 9th year. 9! 8 years and 2385 entries here! Just doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. Time flies.

Blogging has slowed down a little because of time constraints and partly from not having a clear notion of what I want to put here. There are always lots of things tumbling around in my head that could probably go here. They usually never get well formed enough to be turned into anything coherent enough for a blog post though.

Guess I’ll just continue the rambling for another year.

Archive breakage

Trying to track down the source of this error which is breaking my dynamically published archives

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in evaluated template line 11]: syntax error: unrecognized tag 'mtpluginstaticwebpath' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 580) in /*/*/cgi-bin/melody/php/extlib/smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

Update: Decided to switch to static archives. Takes more space (+33MB), but probably simpler that way.

Tomato flowers

The tomato plant has sprouted two little yellow flowers! Maybe this means I will have little tomatoes soon?

Two yellow flowers on a tomato vine

An attempt to migrate to Melody

Have been thinking about migrating the blog to either Melody or MovableType 5.1. For this little blog, MT51 might be a bit of overkill, but there are a lot of interesting looking new features. I’ve had a Melody blog running on my desktop for a few weeks now. Runs pretty well, looks nice, familiar interface.

There is some behind the scenes work that needs to be done first to install some missing Perl modules. Then I need to plan out how to execute the migration.