All posts by Rand Simberg

Administrative

Part-Way Through

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I’ve done an upgrade, but there are some issues, as you can see. There are no comments.

I don’t think that the comments have been lost, and my data bases are backed up, but I may have to tinker with templates to get things working again.

[Update a while later]

OK, I’ve got the templates to display the comment field, but it’s still not showing the comments. As I said, I’m sure I haven’t lost them, and I can reupload them if necessary, but I may not get them viewable until tomorrow. And I’m only halfway through the upgrade (it’s a two-step process to get from MT 2.66 to MT 4.0). You can comment if you want, but it won’t show up until I fix this problem, whatever it is.

[Update a minute later]

OK, I know the comments exist, because I can see them from my control panel for each post. I just have to figure out what type of incantations I have to perform to make them actually display on the blog.

[Morning update]

I’ve decided that, if I have to rework templates and debug anyway, I might as well go all the way to the 4.0 upgrade first, to spare myself potentially having to do it twice. Hopefully I’ll be through this fresh hell sometime today.

Political Commentary

A Concern With Fred’s Departure

This provides a big opening for Huckabee in the south. He may pull votes that would have otherwise gone to Thompson because they don’t want to vote for a northeasterner or McCain.

Let’s hope it’s not enough to give him enough delegates to make a difference. That’s one of the reasons I wanted Thompson to stay in, at least through super Tuesday.

Political Commentary

A Concern With Fred’s Departure

This provides a big opening for Huckabee in the south. He may pull votes that would have otherwise gone to Thompson because they don’t want to vote for a northeasterner or McCain.

Let’s hope it’s not enough to give him enough delegates to make a difference. That’s one of the reasons I wanted Thompson to stay in, at least through super Tuesday.

Political Commentary

A Concern With Fred’s Departure

This provides a big opening for Huckabee in the south. He may pull votes that would have otherwise gone to Thompson because they don’t want to vote for a northeasterner or McCain.

Let’s hope it’s not enough to give him enough delegates to make a difference. That’s one of the reasons I wanted Thompson to stay in, at least through super Tuesday.

Political Commentary

Pay To Stay

Bob Krumm is doing one final fund raiser to keep Thompson in the race.

[Update at 2:30 PM Eastern]

He’s out:

“Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.”

Not a surprise, but disappointing nonetheless.