Movable Type is too damn slow. It takes me too long to post an entry. It takes my users too long to post a comment. I’m sick and tired of this.
I’ve tried in vain to address the problem. I rebuild very few of my index templates upon a new entry/new comment post; almost everything, including RSS feeds, is rebuilt periodically via cron using mt-rebuild. I’m trying to put the least possible strain on MT, but it’s still having a nervous breakdown. I feel as if I’m towing a battleship with a tugboat.
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The mobojot—the mobile version of the jotsheet, which I post to from my phone—is not set up for comments. If you’d like to post a comment about a mobojot entry, feel free to do it on this page. Just follow this this template to make everyone’s life a little easier:
- Title of the mobojot entry
- URL to the mobojot entry you’re talking about
- This is a comment about a mobojot post. I wanted to say something about it. Blah blah blah.
Right-click on the title of a post to get its URL and do “Copy Shortcut” (or similar based on your browser). For example:
raisins
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/mobojot/2005/07/index#a003175
omg ur right Dole raisins r the b3st d00d!
In this way, it’s easy to see which mobojot entry you’re commenting about.
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I’ve got something new on the jotsheet for you today: mobojot. It’s a silly little moblog where I’ll be posting snippets of thoughts and snarky little observations (as opposed to the gorgeous articles here on the normal jotsheet). Since the jotsheet has evolved over time into a blog of articles rather than random thoughts (as it used to be), I plan to use the mobojot to recreate a little bit of useless spontaneity that used to be here.
If you’re in that large, blissfully ignorant majority of the population that has no idea what the hell a moblog is, have no fear. Your ignorance is a good thing, because moblogs are stupid. A moblog is just a word for a blog that can be posted to via e-mail. The mobojot will allow me to write via SMS e-mail from my phone or with a quick e-mail from Microsoft Outlook when I’m bored in a meeting at work. (Yeah, I’m sneaky.)
So if you’re keeping score at home, that means that moblogs:
- Approximate the insight and length of instant messages,
- Were a trendy and nerdcool thing to do back in 2003… but I missed the boat, and
- Will contribute even more to my time-wasting.
Score one for technology.
Also, in case you’re wondering, I used a script called MEOW, and I can heartily recommend it over the others out there, provided that you only want to post text and not pictures. (I don’t have a camera phone. I do have some self-respect.) MEOW separates itself from other moblogging scripts in that it actually has documentation.
If you’d like to make a comment on a mobojot entry, do it at the mobojot comments page.
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11/10/07 UPDATE: Please see Nasser’s updated information on editing MediaWiki sidebar links. My post below is pretty old.
I’m pretty sure the entire purpose of a wiki is to take the hassle factor out of documentation. At work, I’ve been using
TWiki pretty effectively, so I decided to use a
Dreamhost 1-click install to put
MediaWiki on a personal website to do some documentation. I figured that the documentation would virtually slide out of my brain, through my fingertips, and into the Intarweb.
Then I wanted to get fancy. I wanted to change the main navigation links of MediaWiki. Bad idea.
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In case you missed Tom Cruise on Oprah…
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Oh Lindsay Lohan, how I love to admire you.
Out of the thousand of Girls Gone Wild, your star shines brightest. I love you, Lindsay Lohan. We love you, Lindsay, and your “diva detour” sum up the the reasons:
- You have pride. Anyone would be incensed if his or her song didn’t play during the “race scene” and was relegated to the credits. You care.
- You have class. You were angry, but you didn’t take it out on the public. You cried in the bathroom. For 12 minutes.
- You take compliments well. Matt Dillon told you “You’re beautiful. You are.” You smiled and forgot about your song. Then he gave he a good-natured punch in the arm and accidentally shattered it.
- You’re loving. You have a white trash father but you still love yo daddy.
- You’re not anorexic. You’re eating loaded baked potatoes! I mean, just like the rest of us! (link fixed)
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Caught a pretty interesting link from Jack Vinson about learning styles. This free online test produced a pretty accurate assessment for me, and if you’re interested in further PDF reports for moolah, they’ve got those too.
Three occupations I won’t soon be pursuing: carpenter, painter, and lead guitarist. But I already knew that.
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