Update

Waiting around for a week for an answer that took one click to implement, but now the site is back up.

Let me know if you see anything strange--or at least anything strange that isn't supposed to be strange.

Coming soon: Brash Black Tie Billionaire Bash pics, more fun stuff.

Okay friends, I've now completed a bunch of upgrades to functionality and appearance for this site. Now we're running the newest fanciest version of Drupal 5.1, with some new layout and new graphics. Tell me if you see any problems or liked things better before.

For all you people who use LiveJournal, this site now has Livejournal Crossposting enabled. In fact, I've set this so things you post here will show up in your LJ (or DeadJournal if you set it up that way) by default.

To make this happen, first you have to have an account here. Then you have to edit your account settings here once. Click on "My account" on the left, then click on the edit button. Fill in your LJ/DeadJ info.

From then on when you go to the create content link you'll see some LJ options. If you don't want to cross post whatever you're writing here, you'll need to deselect that option.

If you prefer it to work the other way--to have to choose to cross post, let me know.

And last, do you think more people would read this stuff if I set up a real LJ of my own instead of just that syndicated feed? I would never reply to comments on that journal. This will always be the primary place I blog.

This came up once before last April, but Theodora just brought it up again.

LiveJournalers can read this site as part of their friends list. Theo writes:

Hey, I figured out how to make the feed from your blog appear on livejournal

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/delaflamme/profile

(Theo listed a different URL--this is the older, more subscribed one.)

So now people can use this feed to add your to their regularly read LJ 'friends' list.  Also, people can leave comments to the "user" created by this syndicated feed - I couldn't figure out how to turn that off since you'd probably never see the comments.  (I posted a comment to today's armored rose post on the LJ user http://syndicated.livejournal.com/corbydelaflamme/3740.html?view=668#t668 as a test - I'm too dumb about XML/RSS to understand if this would get posted back to delaflamme.org but I think not.)

Doing some other maintenance just now, I noticed that some new members hadn't been made "active" on the site.

Apologies for the oversight and welcome Johanna, Dredge and Eginolf!

Update: All better now. One little file....  Obviously, something very strange just happened as I was experimenting with the site's logo.  I'm working to fix it. All the parts should still work, but they will look funny for a bit. Perhaps permanent changes coming.

Hey hey, the Gallery is fixed. I still haven't uploaded all the same pics, but that won't take long. I should even have some new ones from tonight's Ponte Alto practice. Hopefully I've learned my lesson about installing odd add on modules before reading all the details about them.

Why don't you surprise me by uploading some pictures of your own? Don't let me have all the fun.

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Still stuck on the Gallery. I'm considering deleting the whole installation and reinstalling. It wouldn't be too bad.

But hey! There's progress on another front. After not messing with it for two plus years, I've finally configured the news aggregator. Tell me if you'd like to add your own feed here.

Now I may occasionally read Colin's poisonous political opinion posts!

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Update: Never mind. I'm deleting the whole install and reinstalling it.

The following message is only for people who understand page redirects and .htaccess files. Everyone else, please excuse the mess.

Web techies, please read on. I need some help.

Okay, one little clue in the configuration window led me to try something that suddenly made the whole gallery work. So feel free to kill some more time at work looking through the pics. If you have a membership on the web site, you should be able to upload pictures and comment on pics others have put up. Try it out. Go wild!

Update on this update: I broke gallery just a little while ago, and it may be broken for a day or two. Sorry. I was trying to be too fancy and installed something that keeps me from reaching the place where I can uninstall it!

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