Well, I'm back. The weekend at the cottage was great. It was a much needed getaway, although it went by much too quickly. I can't wait until summer when I can spend more time there.

Lets see, what else is new. I saw Matrix Reloaded on Friday. It didn't have the same new quality to it, but it was still a really awesome film. I don't understand what many reviewers are complaining about. The story was quite interesting, although the bits in Zion were a little slow. The action was mind-blowing, no lesser words can describe it. At first when I saw it, it didn't really sink in, but then after thinking about it, it is truely amazing compared to everything else in the past.

I hope to get an iPod tomorrow (finally). They should be in stock at dealers around the city by now. I hope.

Here's another interesting thing, Brent Simmons is working on what he calls a "smash view" for NetNewsWire. It looks nice. I can't wait to try it.

Thats all for now.

After all my raving about MT Includes, I'm trying out including things with PHP.

This site now uses valid CSS and valid Strict XHTML 1.0. Now I must figure out my Safari bug.

Update: I fixed the Safari bug. The bullets in the post info were somehow screwing it up and making it want to wrap the text to a second line. I just got rid of the bullets. Now it works!

I added a couple cool new things to the site yesterday. The first one is some new buttons down the right side. All those are from gtmcknight's "Steal These Buttons" page. In addition, I made one of my own:

I've tried submitting it to "Steal These Buttons" but his email seems to not be responding. I'll try again today.

Another change that you may have noticed is fancy "nice titles" on links with title attributes. I got the code and image from here. Thanks to Erik for helping me debug some problems they caused in Safari.

I've just discovered the beauty that is the MTInclude tag. I've transfered my side content with the calender, search, links and stuff into a Module Template and then including it in every other template that needs it. I didn't know about this before and just stumbled accross it. This is very cool. It allows you to include blocks of code like you would with a language like PHP or the like and it will parse the MT tags in that module (I don't know if PHP would do that). Cool Stuff.

Well, I haven't posted in quite some time, so I figured that I'd post the stereotypical "I'm busy" post. And yes indeed, I am busy. Last week I was out almost every night doing something and this past weekend I was busy each day as well. Now I'm heading into a lighter patch of life and Easter long weekend is coming up.

On another note, it was/is beautiful out today. Highs of about 27C which is insanely high for this time of year. Just last week we had snow on the ground! It's suppose to cool down later on this week, but having this glimpse of summer sure was refreshing.

Supposedly I'm the number one source for leaked safari. I would think that a mac rumor site or another apple site might get the number one spot in Google, but for some reason, google likes me.

Another interesting one is Saddam body double pictures.

And my favorite referal of the day is names of arrogant people. Well I might have had some names throughout my posts, but I can't say I have the master list of arrogant people in the world. I'm sure I could think of a lot though :).

I love reading my referal logs to see what kind of weird search queries are directing people to my site. The most recent strange one is the pictures freezing monkeys in the snow"

That's my specialty, of course.

jeff.hume.ca - your one-stop source for frozen monkeys.

I'm doing more template work today. The main page should now work properly in IE. I have fixed the category and montly archives. I still need to fix The permalink pages, comments, trackback, search and maybe more that I haven't remembered yet.

Yes, I have a new design! I spent tonight creating it and making it into a MT template. All that is working right now is the main page, all the archives, search pages, category pages, comments, trackback, etc. are broken. I'll fix those tomorrow, but now I must sleep.

It has come to my attention that some browsers might not display this properly. Internet Explorer has a couple bugs that I need to work out. Mozilla/Camino/Gecko Browsers display it great and Safari does as well. I haven't had a chance to try it out on windows and any browsers there. I'll figure out later.

I'm now running Movable Type 2.6.2. Looks like it's working so far.

Today the SQL install on the server was screwed up. I had to re-enter the last few days of posts. Things might not display with the right dates.

An update to Movable Type 2.6 may come soon.

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Stop with the stupid comments, I'll just block the IP or delete them. There is no point.

I've added a RSS 2.0 feed. This joins my current RSS 0.91 and 1.0 (RDF) feeds.

RSS 0.9x is the most common format and all RSS News Aggregators should read them. RSS 1.0 is really RDF and is not as widely used. RSS 2.0 is very similar to RSS 0.9x, but it has more features.

This is another test. NetNewsWire doesn't seem to be picking up my new categories.

Update: After removing and adding the weblog it works again.

I'm testing multiple categories from NetNewsWire Pro.

I'm looking into adding alternate stylesheets to the site. This will allow a different user to use a different theme. The tutorial here looks like a good one to follow.

Categories are up now. I love Movable Type.

Comments are finally working correctly! I had to install some more perl stuff onto the server that told it to refresh the pages properly. I received great help from the community here and then in another thread here.

Now when a comment is posted and you reload the page it will show an updated number in the comments (n) link!

Now I need to figure out categories.

It seems I've fixed the comments problem, I'll see if it works now.

Update It isn't fixed.

Update 2 It seems that when I edit the post the comments counter updates. Hmmm.

The comments link at the bottom of each post doesn't seem to be updating when a new comment is posted. Maybe I messed up the javascript somehow.

Well finally I have the new Movable Type version up! Its not perfect yet, but its much better than before. One big thing I'm having a problem with is importing my old Blogger posts. Movable Type should do it for me, but of course when you want technology to work, it doesn't. For now I'll put a link to the old archives on the main page and they can be browsed from there, the only bad thing is that they wont take advantage of the search and calendar functions, and they will use the old template.

Anyway, if anyone finds any bugs please let me know. Suggestions on the template are welcome as well. I haven't finished the design yet, but I thought I might as well put it up as the main page anyways.

Since I can't get Movable Type to import my old Blogger archives I have to just link to them. I have now put them here. Hopefull things will be more elegant in the future.

Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.

Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.

Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.

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THis is a test entry to see how the templates look with lots of text. This system is somewhat confusing. It was hard to get it set up to go into the correct directories at first. The template system is a little confusing as well, however it should be better in the long run, since Movable type is much more flexable and powerful. Now that the server can run CGIs properly I can have better systems like this.

I will change the main site over from Blogger very soon.

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