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One visitor to prolific.org says his Norton firewall gives a ‘Hi Risk’ warning every time he goes to this site.

Anyone else got the same problem, or can anyone tell me what that’s about? Could it be the .shtml pages?

… are essentially naked.

Apologies if you were served a peek up the skirts of prolific.org earlier today. I was toying with Textpattern’s Gamma release in the root of my account and its .htaccess file affected all the underlying domains. Brrr. And duh. Needless to say, when moved to a more appropriate spot, Textpattern works very nicely indeed.

It’s just that ‘root’ thing in the installation instructions. Ignore it and install in a subdirectory of your choice. (Though this might cause some path problems, as I’m experiencing now. fixed.)

Nothing much to see there, but I’m testing Textpattern at log.nu/tp. There’s no documentation yet, so don’t install if you’re even lazier than I am.

This is part of my Amazon wishlist, imported using the MTAmazon plug-in. Just playing around with it, mind, I haven’t thought of a useful implementation on this site yet – though I can see its value on a site like U2log.com (see below wishlist). Something for that site’s impending redesign.

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Readers won’t notice this much, though comments should run a little better, but I finally managed to shift all the entries into a new installation of MT, this time with a MySQL database.

I had tried an upgrade a few times before, but there were too many entries and the process would be killed before all the entries converted. So I did an export, and removed all the 1999-2001 entries (which I’ll later add in a separate weblog). I did a fresh install of MT and everything’s running smoothly now – posting is quicker, though the category archives still slow things down enormously. I hope that is something that is seen to in MT 3.0.

… all finished just in time for the MetaFilter meet in Amsterdam.

temporarily added for blogstreet registration:

I’ve looked at URL rewriting before and managed to implement something extremely dull (a very simple forward), but I can’t really get my head around anything more complicated.

What I want to do is make sure that

http://prolific.org/?/archive/yyyy/mm/dd/title_of_article.html

gets forwarded to

http://prolific.org/archive/yyyy/mm/dd/title_of_article.html

Which probably isn’t complicated at all. Except to me.

Tips?