Katrina
All eyes on Katrina now. Due to make landfall Monday a little east of here if projections prove correct. It is wreaking havoc with my weekend plans but I’ll be fine if that’s all it wrecks.
The Movable Type Upgrade seems to have gone OK but there were aspects of it that worry me. There’s a script that upgrades your database when you run MT3.2 for the first time. It kept hanging on me. I would reload the page and it would pick up where it left off and continue. I had to do this several times. I’m still getting internal server errors on lengthy rebuilds, particularly the daily entry rebuilds. I’m still getting periodic internal server errors in other functions, too. I keep hoping these will go away with each upgrade but no luck this time. I think I’ll do a complete installation one day when I have nothing else to do and see if that solves my problem. Why would something work flawlessly sometimes but not other times? That’s the part I still don’t get. It’s expected in humans but machines were built to eliminate that inconsistency. If you do X and then Y, you should get Z. There should be no internal server errors, no connections refused, and no delays.
1 day until CFFL Draft Day (Go Ragpickers), and 12 days until football season (Go Saints) begins...............
Quote of the Day
Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget
or I'd regret
the special love I had for you
my Baby Blue
Badfinger, Baby Blue
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "Why did it affect me so much? Because from the ages of 3 to 11, all I wanted to be was a bus driver. To this day, I remain a transit geek: a lover of buses and transit systems."
Rob:
If you've upgraded over the same installation a number of times, it might be worth doing a clean install. Here's a post over at Learning Movable Type (http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/001367a_safe_way_to_upgrade_to_mt_32.php) that walks through the process of a doing a parallel install, so you don't have to risk importing problems.
Although, from my experience, what you're seeing sounds a lot more like hosting issues than MT itself. Good luck figuring it out!
Paul
I doubt I'll ever figure it out. Been down that road before. MT says there's an issue with the server and the server says the issue is with MT. I think I'll end up just living with it for a while longer. It's only a nuisance sometimes. It really bothers me most when I think about it defeating some of the readers here. Usually, they can just press their back button and hit "Post" again and that solves it. Unfortunately, not everyone knows to do that.
I love Badfinger. Keep the quotes and lyrics coming.
Will do, Laura.