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I've been seeing a distinct increase recently in the number of sites hotlinking to my various image collections, so I decided to nip it decisively in the bud with a few tweaks to my .htaccess file. There's always a possiblity that my modifications might have done something to block legimate access to my site (like from an RSS aggregator), so if you see broken links where my images used to be, leave a comment.
The woeful saga of my MT 3.2 upgrade continues. Like child who can't stop touching a hot stove, I assumed that the template refresh feature of 3.2 would actually work as advertised. Instead, it wound up destroying my customized comment templates and replaced them with newer versions. This shouldn't have happened because MT installs a plugin that's supposed to back up all of your custom templates before updating them. Fortunately, it at least worked partially, and backed up my main index, style sheet, and archive templates, otherwise you'd be looking at a very different version of the main page. It's going to take me a while to figure out how to restore the lost templates. Comments work, but the formatting is severely out of whack.
On the plus side, I was able to generate both an RSS 2.0 and an Atom feed, and added links to them at the right-hand bottom corner of the page, but quite frankly, I can't see any significant difference in the formatted output since they still don't appear to handle the 'float' style correctly.
I'm sure I'll get it all sorted out eventually, but in the meantime, I'm going to celebrate my day off by doing some thrifting.
UPDATE: comments look normal and work correctly now. I also made some cosmetic tweaks to the archive formatting. To everyone who suggested I switch to WordPress, my server lacks MySQL, so unless I can talk the sysadmin into installing it, I won't be changing over.
I finally got around to switching my archives over from monthly- to category-based. I didn't realize how long it was going to take me to go through and re-tag every single post I've done since Day 1 to match the categories I decided to use. See how I suffer for you? I hope you're all happy.
In any case, it's done, and the results are available to peruse at your leisure. I was amazed at how much linkage there is in my backpages that to the best of my knowledge, has never been posted anywhere else.
Bloggers, there's gold in them thar hills!