“Upgraded” from Movable Type to Wordpress.  Pretty simple process.  Considering the output of my blog was a text file about 50K in size… pretty small for the collectively posted entries spanning, well, over a year now, isn’t it?

Have to see what I can do with it now – installing plugins and such.  Seems more responsive, and has a caching option to render pure html pages instead of forcing everything through PHP it seems.  Plugins for almost everything, really…

I seem to be getting a lot of comments with embedded links mentioning ‘nipples’ and ‘lesbians’. Obviously not knowing my history, these would seem to be the wrong target words to use.

Let’s see what search engines get drawn here after I actually include those terms in a post…

Think I’m going to try and convert to Wordpress here. It seems to be an easier system and more portable than Movable Type, where half of my problem with it is logging in and making an entry (hence the dearth of entries previous to this last month’s burst).

… isn’t it always so? I mean, most people^Wtechs will see family and probably end up cleaning spyware/trojans/crap off of family computers… I just go out and shop for the kids, and perhaps do some more online…

In the middle of all of that, I end up paying some attention to the outstanding issues with my setup.

Done a lot lately on the server – everything is moved over to the new IBM server here. Sorted out udev – seems it doesn’t keep static entries, it just assigns drive letters based on the order that things are plugged in/detected. Finally solved my anally-retentive issues by removing the last drive (in bay 5, which was still marked as /dev/sdc simply because the intermediate drives weren’t there), and putting the next ones in, before turning up bay 5 again.

/dev/sd[a-f] all in order. Allows me to make up the proper RAID partitions according to how it *should* detect them on reboot…

md3 : active raid5 sde2[2] sdd2[1] sdc2[0]
27711872 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

md2 : active raid5 sde1[2] sdd1[1] sdc1[0]
7823360 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

md1 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
12699264 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
3911744 blocks [2/2] [UU]

Left to do: Make sure it reboots fine, and turn up sdf as a hot spare for md[2,3]. Maybe get it to monitor to my cell as before.

I can’t tell if the additional memory usage is a result, though – mysql, httpd, and mail all seem to be top users there, regardless.

Last year I bought a used MP3 player off of someone… an older Rio I think. Well, using it again lately on walks to work, I find that the battery is… temperamental. Emphasis on the mental. It doesn’t want to hold a charge.

So, today I took it apart. (Man, these things are made a little shock resistant…)

Find the battery isn’t as integrated as I thought, I can unplug it from the board and take it out… so I look up the model number on it.

Keep in mine, I paid $20 last year for the player.

The cheapest I can find a replacement battery is $21.95.

Well, this is getting further disassembled and added to the parts bin…