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March 12, 2006
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Last week the decomm blog editing software, movabletype, went down...I was stuffing around trying to add new authors...for some reason I couldn't, I looked it up on the movabletype knowledge base and there was entry that said I needed to drop my mt-config file out of the dataBase...after a bit of frigging around (finding passwords etc) I managed to do this...and then couldn't get back in to the system...it shut me out entirely...this made me think about a few things:
- if one is going to host blogs, research blogs of colleagues, and essentially by doing so, set oneself up as sys admin for that service, then there's a whole swag of responsibilities that goe with it...the thought even crossed my mind that Luke (who's whole research is on his blog) could, quite validly, sue my arse...anyway, I'm now writing this which means it seems that on this hot March Sunday afternoon I have got the thing back up and running ( a misplaced "<", was the culprit)
- learnt a bit more about movabletype
- learnt I'm going to have to back it up more frequently and be more careful when I "play around with PHP" in the future...
- that sometimes one needs to sit down and actually take the time to work through things, well, I do anyway, take the time to look, absorb, "sit-with" and not panic in order to work an idea or issue through...I find that my practice now (nowadays) has less and less of this sort of time in it. Technology itself seems to reduce this form of time – I find technology (phones, email, internet, TV, software apps) often seems to fracture time; constant interuptions, waits, actions to take, things to put in the "do later" basket, etc. And, in fracturing time, fracture conciousness and focus...I end up bitsy and constantly "thinking on my feet". This certainly applies to my MA, where I yearn for the time to settle into the thinking, do some reading and "be" in it for a while. I resolve to take the time to do this...but that's another entry...
Posted by Neal Haslem at March 12, 2006 03:52 PM