If you tweak your Movable Type templates, you need to save them somewhere for back up purposes. So I just put mine here in an extended entry. Had to change all the lt and gt tags to make the code viewable.

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For me, I could not understand TrackBack until I used it. As soon as I used it, I realized it was an alterative way to adding a lengthy comment. (At least that is one obvious use of it.)

Kelly posted an article and enabled the “Allow Pings” option.

This made a “TrackBack (0)” link appear next to the “Comments (0)” link. Clicking on the TrackBack link produces a TrackBack URL that can be copied and pasted into the “Ping” field on my own blog article. By pinging from my article, my blog sends an update to Kelly’s blog, incrementing the link to: “TrackBack (1)”. Then, others can see I’ve posted a response, seeing my article title with an excerpt.

Very useful for an exchange of longer articles, giving the responding author the ability to fully edit the response. (Once you’ve posted a comment, you can’t change it.)

Read more about TrackBack in TrackBack for Beginners.

[Update: 6/20/2005. With 10.3.9 sendmail is configured to run “Automatic”. It just works w/ no configuration or fixes required. So notifications worked right away when I moved to the G3 running OS X 10.3.9.]

Sendmail quit working properly at some point. This meant notifications generated by MovableType were not being delivered. They were stuck somewhere.

This may have been caused by an Apple update of some kind. I think creating the NetInfo entry as described in on these pages is what finally solved the problem.

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Since Kelly says she is bored, maybe I can help! Here are some things to do:

1) Clean up her room.

2) Give Clyde a bath.

3) Wash Dad’s car.

4) Water the flowers.

5) Go on p–p patrol.

6) Figure out how this trackback stuff works!

Part of the blogosphere culture… Creative Commons

While looking for a way to integrate MovableType with Photo Gallery… Interview with Paul Bausch, Co-creator of Blogger and Co-author of ‘We Blog’

His website: OnFocus.com

Strange Banana generates random web site styles (although the colors seem complimentary.) You can save the page and use the styles as a basis for your own web site.

Hit “renew” to see different sites, but if you like one, save it. You may never see it again!

Merlin was hacked and set up as an FTP file server. Time to become a Windows Admin I guess…Securing a Windows NT System

Tips on removing Dameware.

Tips on removing FireDaemon.

Follow the link below for Kodak’s reply to my letter. They don’t get to keep me as a customer!

I bought a Cannon, and it feels like a better engineered product.

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