Housekeeping: June 2005 Archives

...or how I was reminded that it takes more than a love of beer to make it through events like this. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

This weekend was the Old Dominion Beer Fest at the Old Dominion Brewing Company in Ashburn, VA. Since I'd heard that it was going, I was excited about it. 50 (mostly) craft breweries all in a row ready and eager to sell a taste of their wares.

Of those that I remember, I liked Rogue's Dead Guy Ale and Delirium Tremens the best. I had other great beers...whose names escape me at the moment. I intentionally avoided breweries that I was familiar with so I didn't try anything from Old Dominion, Sweet Water, DogFishHead, Brooklyn Brewery, and some others.

At the beginning of this post I mentioned that the Fest was a reminder. As good as the above sounds, you're still wandering around in 90 degree heat with 80-90% humidity in the sun and heat. In weather like that, drinking beer and dehydrating myself, my endurance wasn't what it should be.

It definately put me in the mood to go out and try some new brews...so maybe it was Mission Accomplished anyway. Good thing July is American Beer Month.

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Well, I think I got some things worked out on the site.

I had some problems the last time I upgraded MovableType from 3.14 to 3.15. It looks like I goofed up the upgrade and missed some files. When I started messing with ecto again, I got some errors updating the site, tracked them down and it showed that I missed something in my last upgrade. I pulled the full download of MovableType 3.17 and went through directory by directory and updated everything again.

It looks like it's working now, which is nice. Hopefully I'll be motivated to keep up with things on the site now. I need to do some cleaning of the filesystem on the server...there's a lot of extra directories and files that aren't linked anywhere that I need to decide what to do with. I also have MT installed a little weird and I need to take the time someday to work that out.

I re-rolled my trial of ecto, so I lost the draft I had of a pen review I was working on, so that needs to be started over. Not that it's a bad thing because I have a lot to add since I first thought of the posting. I'm playing with fountain pens these days. :)

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Well, obviously I'm neglecting the website. Great.

I was going pretty well for a while there. I was really excited about Photon to help make dumping images to the website easier. Then I was looking into ecto to make posting easier.

Then Photon stopped working. Then ecto expired. Then life got in the way.

Am I going to do anything about it? I hope so.

I updated the software on the site a little bit. I'm going to see if I can fix my software situation a bit. I'm going to try to get that pen review out that I've had in draft for a few weeks. Hopefully I can get my job stuff straightened out.