Webby Rambling

Sorry for those of you who saw an old greymatter screen momentarily a bit earlier.

I was tinkering around with some old GreyMatter files (which used to maintain this journal), and inadvertently hit rebuild, which I intended to do at some point (i.e. AFTER I had changed the name of the index file so it wouldn't overwrite the current journal). Not a big deal, just made things look kind of goofy for a bit.

I did log in to the server shell, and issued a unix top command while the rebuild was taking place -- and MAN, is greymatter a resources hog! At one point, my gm.cgi process was using the MOST cpu power of ANY process. Oops. I can see why some hosts would ban the program. Thankfully, Movable Type is much more efficient.

In any case, all of this is in preparation for the move of this site to the new host, which is much more of a pain in the arse than moving Reductio, since the backbone of this site has been around in some form since 1997 -- enough time for me to go through several redesigns and just make a mess of everything in terms of file structure.

I see now why people just chunk their old content into a new directory and start over when they redesign. I may throw everything old into a subdomain when I redesign this summer and start fresh, because things are REALLY a mess!

So how many of you made it through all of that webby rambling without eyes glazing over?

[Posted at 22:15 CST on 05/13/02] [Link]