Erudition and Inanity

In the process of cleaning out spam I accidentally removed a bunch of valid comments. (Bad UI, Typo! Stupid human, Brian!) Sigh. I dug through the default sqlite database for this thing and it looks like the comments were legitimately removed, not just marked for deletion. The database isn’t backed up anywhere. Clearly I am a super genius. If anyone has any bright ideas, let me know in the comments, which I will try not to subsequently delete.

Maybe Wordpress is everything it’s cracked up to be. Typo has been a bit of a disappointment. It crashes occasionally too, and I’ve glanced at the logs but I haven’t nailed down the reason yet.

I should have done this years ago. Very cathartic. Although I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do when the number of links I’d like to include exceeds the size of my wacky checkerboard box. Details, details. brianguthrie.com

I’ve had a glorious time setting this thing up, a time of sunshine and love. Blessed are the editors of config files, for only they live life to its fullest.

I had originally wanted this blog to be a subdirectory of the main domain but after hours of effort I’ve largely given up. It essentially comes down to aesthetics–do I prefer blog.brianguthrie.com, or brianguthrie.com/blog–which I freely admit is a highly esoteric issue, especially given that the former is considerably easier to set up. But I followed these instructions to the letter, and many others, and I found that no matter what I did, all of the URLs worked fine within Mongrel and were completely broken after they got passed through the proxy.

Once you’ve gotten so deeply into the problem that you start to classify the explanatory articles in your browser by their color scheme it’s probably time to look for a simpler solution. Perhaps someday I will move this blog to another URL, but I fear, dear reader, that today is not that day.

Welcome! I’m Brian Guthrie. This is my blog. I think that covers the bases.

I’ve been sitting on this domain for a long time because I’ve had a hard time deciding how I wanted to host it. My original goal was to use my desktop at home to host the domain, because I don’t use it for much of anything else anymore, but my cable provider blocks incoming requests on port 80, so that was out. I finally ponied up the money for real hosting and I’m running on Slicehost, which has more or less the nicest signup page I’ve ever seen for anything, and with which I’ve been very happy for the approximately 12 hours I’ve been a customer. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.