So it’s getting on six months since I’ve had anything to say here. Actually, that’s not true. It’s been almost six months since I’ve had the gumption to say anything here. There are two reasons for this:
- Busy (30%)
- Movable Type — the system formerly used to run most of this site — sucks (70%)
Amazingly, there are only 103 Google matches for the phrase “Movable Type sucks”; this must be because everyone who has come to believe that Movable Type sucks isn’t able to let anyone else know abotu this, because their websites are all dead because, well, see #2 above.
The particular way in which Movable Type sucked for me was that comment spammers — of whom there are a lot — would regularly DOS the whole server when they started trying to post ten comments a second. I had to turn off comments for the whole site, and even though I only got about two non-spam comments a week, I found that without this feedback mechanism most of my motivation to write anything here disappeared.
So I’m busy. Not necessarily too busy to hold forth on the important issues of the day like Why Those Bastards At Burger King Should Be Flogged, but too busy to smoothly switch everything to some other system and also hold forth etc.: so to hell with smoothness. All the old stuff is still at http://tinotopia.com/log/, as well as in WordPress. As time permits, I’ll come up with some kind of original look instead of this canned theme, and set up redirects so that everyone comes directly to the posts as presented by the new system, In the meantime, I have complaining to do.
