introverting.nu has a TypePad Review that agrees with my experience of the product. I am having a good time working with Movable Type, but if I were starting out from scratch and didn’t need a separate web host, I would definately go with TypePad.
Author: Elaine
Zempt
Now that I have decided to go with the Movable Type application, I am taking another look at Zempt :: Multi-platform posting for Movable Type. On my visit to the website, I noticed that they have a bookmarklet that will start Zempt, similar to the Post to MT bookmarklet. Zempt also includes a spell checker.
Propagation
Despite years of hearing the term domain name propagation, it still reminds me vaguely of gardening. However, I am astonished that, a little over 24 hours after I made the request to Network Solutions, our domain name has been propagated to our little corner of the Internet.
We have had this domain name for about nine years now. When we got an internet dialup account in 1994, Jack decided that he wanted us to have a domain name. (Things were so primitive then that Jack took our desktop computer down to the ISP office so they could install the software we would need.) I thought it was a complete waste to get the stardel.com domain, but have to admit that the domain name has survived four or five different service providers over the years. I have had my stardel email address for the same length of time, which may not be a record, but is a very long time. Of course the downside is that it is on every spam list in the universe, since I was sending email before anyone even thought about protecting their email address. I can still remember my shock at the first p*rn*graphic email I received.
New Weblog
I was very pleased with TypePad. However, because we had a lot of information on our existing website, as well as my old weblog, I decided to see if I could install Movable Type, which is the software predecessor of TypePad. It took me about six hours to get it working so I could log in. This included finding my way around a new web host, copying files from our old host, and and cooking dinner. I wouldn’t recommend the experience to anyone who hadn’t had some experience with Perl and/or Unix and/or SQL.
I exported my posts to the TypePad beta, and imported them into my new weblog with no difficulty. I haven’t yet started to customize the templates and cascading style sheets, because I wanted to get the basic mechanics working first.
Summer Sunrise
The winds were high before dawn this morning, which frequently leads to spectacular sunrises. It was already warm when I walked the dogs at 8:30, so it looks as though it will be another hot day.
First Post in Five Acres in MT
This is very exciting. I wonder if I will be able to import all my entries.
Color Change
Because I am not really a black background color kid of gal, and someone was having problems with the old color scheme.
Simply Divine: Testing the Photo Album
I am using QuickPost to send a trackback (I hope) to Simply Divine, about her post on Testing the Photo Album. Trackbacks are sort of a distributed comments system and were originally specific to Movable Type, the parent product of TypePad.
Simply Divine mentioned my weblog because she knows someone else who has a German Shepherd / Rottweiler cross.
Trail Ride
I had not taken Lily out on trail ride in several months. It has been one of those “ought to’s” in the back of my mind, but there has just been too much going on. I usually trail ride with my trainer and she has been too busy with her summer camp.
However, she takes Wednesday as her day off, and asked me if I wanted to go out. Lily had been a little too enthusiastic on Tuesday, since I hadn’t been riding her enough last week due to the heat, but had chilled out again today, so I agreed to a 20 minute trail ride and worked for a while in the arena while my trainer got Havoc ready. Havoc is her 22 year old Thoroughbred and former show hunter. He looks like an old dude horse on the trail most of the time these days, except when he doesn’t. My trainer would probably let me trail ride Havoc if I asked her, but I haven’t ever quite gotten up the nerve to do so. I’ve seen Havoc forget his age and do airs above the ground too many times over the past decade. If I want to trail ride a Thoroughbred, I’ve got Hap.
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Dogs
I can’t believe that between the time we moved to Texas in June 1990 to the time we moved to Colorado in November 1992, we acquired five dogs. We had been without a dog for many years, and we sort of went overboard when we finally had the space. We had gone back down to zero for a month before we acquired Dudley, our Rottweiler cross, and Lody, our smooth Collie a few months later. Somewhere in the course of five dogs, we had decided two dogs were quite enough.
I have been remembering what it was like to have a large pack because we do again, temporarily. My sister-in-law is traveling, and her regular dog sitter had other plans, so Lily and Lightning are staying with usfor ten days.
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