Movable Type Musings
So I had a weird problem with my blog last night, the first weird issue since I upgraded to Movable Type 3 over the weekend. I got a spam comment, about penis enlargement no less (no thanks, very happy over here, but thanks for the offer), and I went to delete it and couldn't. At first I thought, OK, maybe its a Mac thing, but when I hopped on a PC I had the same problems, but with a script error. I know nothing about programming code, web design or any of that fun stuff, so I figured I'd take a look in the morning while I was at work looking for something to do. I posted the errors on the Movable Type support forum and I had a quick reply from someone to make sure some file was uploaded to the right spot on my web server. The file was there, just in the wrong directory. Some quick FTPing and all was good in the world. So now I can delete those penis enlargement posts without any problem.
I've been running on Movable Type for almost a year now, ever since I bought a year of web hosting when I finally decided to do something, anything, with the domain name I'd registered a few years ago. I paid for the hosting mostly with $40 I found in an ATM in Penn Station the night before. I paid for it with my debit/check card and here's the thing, the web host never took the money out of my account. So basically I've gotten a year of free web hosting. I'm really curious what is going to happen when that year is up.
Should be sometime around Father's Day because I remember trying to figure out how the hell to install Movable Type on my web server all day that day. I eventually figured it out, imported all my old entries from my Blogger blog, and was good to go. Then I deleted my user account and had to so it all over again, but at least I knew what I was doing at the time. So at the moment I'm banking on the free web hosting to continue. If for some reason the site disappears, there's your reason. So far no e-mail saying, hey, your year is up. Only time will tell. In the meantime, I'm exploiting free for as long as I can!