Katherine Mankiller

I found a missing angle bracket in the comment table template that was conflating the “not spam” and “empty” buttons on the spam comment listing on MT 4.1. Line 24 of comment_table.tmpl should read:

title="<__trans phrase="Report Selected Comments as Not Spam and Publish (j)">"

The > near the end was missing.

I upgraded Movable Type to the latest version. It was a security thing. You shouldn’t notice a difference.
It was pretty much painless aside from the part where fastcgi doesn’t work with the upgrade script. Once I figured that out all was love.
They’re supposed to have a personal license of Movable Type Community Solution, which I find oddly exciting because I like to pretend that someday I’ll have comments and shit, and y’all’ll want forums. Hey, it could happen! But until then, you know. Eh.
If you find borked stuff, let me know.

With a couple of caveats, this is a great cellphone. Basically, it’s cute and full of Dick Tracy fun, but it’s also a cellphone only a geek could love sometimes.

Pros:

• Fun.
• Cute.
• Your phone is always handy on your wrist. No more beeperlepsy!
• It comes with bluetooth, so you don’t have to talk into your watch if you don’t want to.
• You can talk into your watch if you want to!
• It can also play mp3s and videos.

Cons:

• Weak antenna–I have trouble getting a signal some places, sigh.
• Mine came with W32/RJump pre-installed for my convenience.
• I’ve managed to crash the WAP browser a couple of times. I hear this is SOP for WAP browsers. *shrug*
• 120 character limit on text field entry, but unless you have good eyes for the tiny onscreen keyboard or patience for the handwriting recognition, that might not be a problem for you.

Things that may be a positive or negative depending on your personal taste:

• The anime graphics that come with the phone are really cute. I didn’t expect to like them, because I’m not always the biggest fan of cute, but I do! If you’re, to quote Think Geek, “Mr. Super Manly Man who is a afraid of a little cute,” well… YMMV.
• The phone works with AT&T and T-Mobile, but you have to set up your own WAP settings or there will be no web surfing for you on the teeny tiny screen. I found setting up WAP fun, so this was a positive for me, but I’m a geek.

The manual reads like someone took the Chinese version and ran it through Babelfish. I find the result amusing but not very informative. A random example: “Do not put battery at machine impactive places, and poke battery with hard things.”

As for the W32/RJump, it’s a Windows executable, so the cellphone itself wasn’t infected, and if you use linux or Mac you can’t catch it (but delete autorun.inf, RavMon.exe, and Ghost.pif anyway). If you run Windows, update your antivirus. It’s delivered through Generic!atr, and virus definitions have been able to catch that for over a year. (It’s a worm that spreads itself through removable media. The cellphone watch acts as removable media to allow you to copy your multimedia files over, so it’s possible someone just tested it on an infected machine.)

If you want to see the watch in action, this guy is trying to sell ‘em on eBay in English. There’s also a Chinese demo that shows the handwriting recognition, and an Italian demo that shows the menus.

Overall? Four paws and a wireless access point up.

Check it out! It’s a teeny tiny laptop that runs linux. I could even carry it in my purse if I bought a bigger purse. I fondled one at the store today. People kept asking me if I needed help. No! Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!
I could probably even install subversion on it. I could also upgrade the RAM, but if I did I would need to buy this shirt to go with it.
I have a perfectly good laptop, by the way. This one is just cool.

You can learn things about a grrl from what’s in her purse. Here’s some of what’s in mine:

1. Two Epi-Pens.
2. Two inhalers.
3. Puppy linux CD
4. Knoppix S-T-D CD
5. Cellphone.
6. PDA.
7. Screwdriver.
8. Thumb drive.
9. Pens.
10. Titanium spork from Think Geek.

What do you carry around with you?

Fairly random, but:

Geeky cakes. So cool!

Wikipedia entry on unusual software bugs, including Heisenbugs and Schroedinbugs.

I love being a geek.

Movable Type 4.0. Better authentication. I’ve only changed one
template to take advantage of that, but I may randomly break stuff while
dorking around over the next few days. Don’t worry if something’s
broken; I’ll fix it.

Because I hate spam so much, comments are moderated unless you’re a
trusted authenticated user. Sorry. On the other hand, cleaning spam
off my dead pet entries feels like scrubbing spray paint off their
tombstones. Special circle in hell. Buried in pet feces for all
eternity. If you’re not spam, I’ll approve you.

Also, there’s this new thing spammers do where they post faux emo
crap with their links. “I don’t think I can go on anymore nothing
matters!” with a link to Viagra. This girl is so depressed that her
boyfriend can’t perform that she’s going to end it all? I ask you.
Besides, I generally don’t get emo comments, so they stand out in the
queue.

As you were.

I’ve upgraded the site to MT3.34 with FastCGI. You probably won’t notice unless you comment, but I can tell and that’s what matters! To me, at least!

Seriously, it’s cool. Trust me.

I also made my URLs prettier, as they were pretty darned ugly. I’ve been putting that off, not wanting to break links, but to the best of my knowledge no one links to any individual entries but Brian. If you’re a stealth linker, sorry ’bout that.

No, I’m not procrastinating from NaNoEdMo, why do you ask? (I’m not. Upgrading the site is my reward for good behavior!)