Some topics covered:
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Nope, I’m not moving my blog to Movable Type, but I have been interested in trying out MT 4.0 beta since it is going open source. FYI, MT 4.0 was supposed to go final yesterday, but the power outages in the San Francisco area has delayed the release, so I tried out MT 4 Beta 7.
WordPress is known for its ridiculously simple 5-step installation. MT was pretty much the same. After unzipping it and pulling it up on the browser, the only real information I had to put in was for the database.
The next step creates an user and then you are presented with the dashboard:
I’m not sure I really like the interface, but it has the relevant options, just scattered around a bit. I wanted to try out MT with some real content, so I used a script from codemonkyramblings.com to export this blog into something MT could import. Instructions for using the script can be found in the comments here.
The import itself wasn’t perfect, but it moved over all the published and drafts ok. Unfortunately, that doesn’t automatically display the posts on the blog yet. Instead, the site needed to be “published.”
Changing some of the styles also required the site to be republished, but posting a new entry did not, so I’m a bit unclear on when republishing is required.
There are a couple things I noticed. First, the MT site definitely seems to load faster than my WP blog (yes, I do have WP-Cache installed and both blogs are in the same DreamHost account). Maybe the publishing creates static pages, but there is a performance difference. Second, OpenID is an option without any needed plugins. Christer Edwards and Aaron Toponce have discussed enabling OpenID on WordPress blogs here and here.
Finally, the end product is located at http://boredandblogging.com/mt-4-beta-7-test-blog/. All my text formating seems to have disappeared, oh well. Feel free to muck around on it.
Would I consider moving to it? Not at the moment, but I’m really interested in seeing if the open source MT community will be as vibrant as WordPress’s has been over the years.
Some topics covered:
If you think you have a story for the UWN, email ubuntu-marketing-submissions@lists.ubuntu.com.
And if you like it, digg it.
I’ll be in Toronto this week for a wedding. Lots of family will be there, so we would like to visit some of usual tourist spots.
We’ll definitely do the CN Tower.
Any recommendations on what else we should do? Restaurants and tourist traps are welcome.
The RoboCup 2007 competition is being held this week at the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta.
What is RoboCup? From the main site:
RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is ‘By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer.’
Nearly 1700 students and faculty from 300 teams and 117 countries will be competing in events ranging from four-legged and humanoid robotic soccer games to search-and-rescue competitions. Here are some images from RoboCup 2006:
More pictures from RoboCup 2006 can be found here. There is a Flickr pool for pictures from RoboCup 2007 here.
Finals for the various competitions will be July 7th and 8th. Stop by if you are in the area.
As a cigar smoker, I have gone through plenty of useless lighters. I’ve bought expensive ones, cheap ones, but they never last for long. Everyone knows how cool Zippo lighters are, but no one should ever use a regular lighter on a cigar! The lighter fluid will completely overwhelm the taste and flavors and it takes out all the enjoyment of a stogie.
Recently, I came across the Z-Plus torch insert over at HumiBlog.com. Basically, the guts of the Zippo are replaced so that it can take in regular butane, so you end up with a Zippo that can be used on cigars. Perfect.
Since I’ve been hankering for a Zippo, I went out and got the Spectrum and the Z-Plus and here is what it looks like:
Pretty snazzy if I must say so myself.
Zippo has created a new lighter just for cigars, called the Zippo Blu. Its already available in Europe and should be coming to the US at the end of the summer. Read more about it at Cigar Aficionado.
With all the recent hoopla about people camping out for iPhones, I thought I would share a picture of folks camping out before the grand opening of a Chick-fil-a close to me. No, this wasn’t a Fry’s or some uber-cool computer store. Its Chick-fil-a, a fast food eatery:
Apparently, the first 100 customers would get a year’s supply of food for free. Still, camping out?
