After largely ignoring my blogs for much of the past few years, I realised that my web server was upgraded to the point that my outdated blog software doesn’t run properly on it anymore. After using Movable Type for so many years, and bearing with the complexities of upgrading to newer versions, I have decided …
I’ve received a few reports that comments can’t seem to be posted on this blog. I tested it a few times and it seems to work fine, even when not logged into Movable Type. So please let me know if you’re still having trouble. Contact me via my [form](http://vantan.org/about/contact.php) instead. Thank you!
Weird things have been happening on my blog. As I haven’t even had time to tinker around with it, it obviously wasn’t my doing 😛 Firstly, [Strangeknight](http://strangeknight.wordpress.com/) told me that my blog was down. I checked, and it was. My web host told me they were restarting the server. But Strangeknight also told me he …
My blog was bombarded with comment spam an hour ago, and I could not log in to update anything because all the database connections were used up. My web host has since blocked all IP addresses that were attempting to connect to my database. [Contact me](http://vantan.org/about/contact.php) in case your IP was blocked and you cannot …
Subscribers to my feed will now have a little extra somethin’ – my most recent [Ma.gnolia bookmarks](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/vantan/bookmarks). Ma.gnolia is a product of [Zeldman](http://www.zeldman.com/)’s [Happy Cog Studios](http://www.happycog.com/), and is similar in nature to [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/), except that it looks prettier. Of course, more people probably use [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/), but I wanted to be different 😛 And Zeldman himself …
After upgrading to Movable Type 4 templates, I’m still sorting out some kinks that pop up every now and then. The most recent kink was spotted by [Jimmy Liew](http://cynics.info/) who noticed that my Feedburner feed hadn’t been updated in a while. Thanks, Jimmy! Turns out that the ampersands in some of my category names were …
I have redesigned this blog! OK, I didn’t do most of the designing. All I did was tweak the CSS and move some template code about. The amazing thing about [Movable Type 4](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/) (MT) is that it allows me to backup my old templates, purge them from the live system and replace them with the …
Just testing. I discovered a magic button in Movable Type 4 that can wipe out all my old templates (which have accumulated over the years like tartar on teeth). Please bear with any strange, inconsistent visuals because I have a few thousand web pages to re-publish.
After a series of errors, I have finally upgraded my blog to Movable Type 4.1! *fanfare* It appeared that the main culprit was a corrupt database. Thank God that I didn’t lose my data and instead, the database was repairable. Phew! The other cause was improperly uploaded files. As my FTP program kept timing out, …
My web host, A Small Orange, has been pretty reliable. They give value for money, and have been able to fix my problems. However, the server hosting my blog went down a few days ago. While my web pages were restored, my CGI scripts were not, thus I couldn’t log in to update this blog. …