Well, this has been an interesting week for me. Several little things happening as a result of moving various sites from Hurricane Electric to Go Daddy.
WordPress
I’m really not liking WordPress right now. I have migrated all sorts of sites to WordPress over the past year without a hiccup. But they really insist on using their funky WordPress Extended RSS (WXR) format for migrating from WordPress to WordPress. Bear in mind that they do provide a hosted WordPress for free, as well as the host it yourself stuff, which is what I tend to use.
Anyway, never ran into the situation where the MySQL database actually exceeded 2MB, before. And to my surprise, one of the sites I have to move is actually hovering at around 7MB. Shouldn’t be a problem if I could just use any old migration tool. But nope, I have to work with the tools provided, which are all PHP based. And as a result, there is a 2MB limit. Nice, huh? You would think the boneheads at WordPress would provide an export option to split the WXR file into chunks smaller than 2MB. After all, if the maximum file size is 2MB, then what good is a WXR file that is larger than that? This is an example of programmers having their heads in dark, moist places. Seriously, this is the type of stuff I look at when hiring folks. And to ignore a design limitation is a seriously poor oversight. The question for me is whether I really want to fix it or not. Do I have the time?
New Template
So, I’ve switched my look again. I know, I know. But I couldn’t help it. I’ve been working on a different look for a while and just haven’t been very happy with the overall style. This is finally getting towards that look I’ve been driving. Please be gentle with me if you opt to leave feedback. I might be tempted to make more changes 
… and to Truncated Comments
This will be fun, especially as time goes on and my comments get pushed down. But over on the right hand side, I had made a comment that just doesn’t display properly. Under Recent Comments, it reads, “LOL! Should have let me do you”. This is not what I wrote and is perfect example of what happens when you take things out of context. I would never write such a thing on my blog. Seriously. The actual comment was related to my offer to produce a Gravatar for a friend and it reads, “LOL! Should have let me do your gravatar when I offered”.
I hope you can see the difference. Sheesh, the last thing I’m trying to do is to turn this into a porn site.
Anyway, those are some of my rants for now. I’m sure either I’ll come up with a WordPress fix or find one. If I do, I will certainly post it here.
10/09/2007 at 8:11 am Permalink
Ok. This is the *second* time this has happened… Except this time I noticed my comment never showed up. WTH!?
See, leave it to me to bring the porn out in your site.
It did read very funny though, good for a laugh.
That sucks about the migration. Blech.
xo
10/09/2007 at 8:57 am Permalink
Too funny. But I didn’t see anything get caught in my Spam filter. So, I’m not sure why your comments don’t show up.
Yep, too bad on the migration. I’ll get it supported at some point. I just need to finish some stuff so I can focus on writing a plugin for WordPress.