So. The last time I migrated the blog, I got about 1/2 the job done. I liked Nucleus CMS (which I used for Dad's blog), and got that set up, but I wanted tagging, rather than categories, and just never had time to get the plugins I could find that would do that working quite right.

But now, I have it! I (heavily!) refactored some plugins created by other people: i.e. I cut out just what I needed, and simplified from the "everything and the kitchen sink" to as bare bones as I could get. And it all works now. Shiny!

I really do like Nucleus as a blog engine thing: I've yet to find anything I couldn't make it do using plugins-- with every other bit of blog software I've played with, I've had to hack the source, which made upgrading a royal pain. I still haven't brought in a markup language like textile or markdown-- when I migrated from textpattern (which was migrated from MT), I just pulled the HTML version of the posts into the table. From a migration point of view, this makes sense, as the full HTML is the only thing that doesn't change (it's a pain to go back and edit, but how often to you edit really old posts? like never!). I'm confident that a plugin can do what it has to (maintain the textile/markdown in a different table than the entry), it's just a matter of getting to it.. *sigh*

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So, in starting to set up bootcamp, I totally managed to f something up! (Yes, I can even break a Mac). I tried the usual turn off / turn on the machine, and CRAP! the CD is still in the drive, and it HAS NO BUTTONS. Eject is totally software driven.

Thankfully, someone already took the time to list all of the interesting things you should try to get your CD back. Number 3 did the trick.

1. The iTunes eject button
2. Disk Utility ...
3. Hold down mouse button at startup
4. Hold down C key at startup
5. Start up into Open Firmware ...
6. Start up in Target FireWire mode ...
7. Start up from another machine
8. Take your machine to an Apple Store

The longest night of the year has come.. the shortest day of the year is done, and I... well.

So there was this box. It got shipped here a little while ago. It's large, squarish, and only about a foot and a half deep. It's been sitting in the dining room by the skimpily ornamented Norfolk pine and the tiny Meyer lemon tree (which is just beside itself with lemons on the make, but that's another story).

Chris was very careful that I not see anything about it (I also was honest and didn't go looking.. I mean, what's the fun of that?), but he has asked me to guess what it was.. "A spare tire", "A wall-hanging jewelry closet", "A mirror"... The closest I could come (and I didn't think I had a chance in hell of it being so) was a big beautiful LCD monitor to replace the monstrosity on my desk downstairs.

And Lo! it was a big beautiful LCD monitor.. complete with a bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse. My husband, that wonderful man, gifted me an iMac.

Yesss..

I have, in fact, begun publishing my scans on deviantArt.. I told you I wanted to get prints of some of them..

The scanning has only just begun, though, so be patient. Some of these images have spent too long in a sketchbook rubbing against other pages.. so it's hard to get the scan so it doesn't look so darn grainy. *sigh*

I'm also rebuilding my T60p in place (meaning I started half of it while chrooted, and have now switched over to the newer half...).

I've run into anew issue loading the dri drivers: AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __glXFindDRIScreen). Moving to the latest ati driver seemed to fix that (8.37.6-r1).

• ATI Linux drivers for debian has great information around how to configure X11 to work with the proprietary ati drivers.
• Fglrx - ThinkWiki is a good source for how this stuff all works with thinkpads...