Here’s a little bit of technical advice for anyone running Movable Type: if you have more than a year of archives, don”t put a “monthly archive” list in the sidebar of individual posts. Otherwise you’ll start getting server timeouts during site rebuilds because each post will bombard the server to demand url information. Then you could end up trying to upgrade to fix the problem, then reverting, then upgrading, then reverting and corrupting your whole database – until finally you’ve lost a month of your life debugging and rebuilding because you were too dumb and/or lazy to go through the templates and figure out what the problem was. At least that’s what we’ve heard can happen. Hypothetically. It’s not like anyone around here is stupid enough to do that.
If you subscribe to MR, we’re pretty sure that the transition to Feedburner went fine and that you’re seeing this in your RSS. Which also means that we’ve pretty much used up all of our karma for the day – good thing there’re only 19 hours to go. If you can’t see this in your RSS reader, of course, we apologize – but if you glance slightly to your right you’ll see the orange radio-looking button thing that will cure all your troubles.
Now for a quick tour of the new design:
(1) MR now has extended entries. This will prevent our multi-page “what did the Pope really mean” posts – not exactly the bread and butter of the MR demo – from crowding out our “the Palestinians have found a new way to ruin their society, and the UN is blaming Israel” posts.
More changes after the jump to the extended entry (see what we did right there?)
(2) There are now two ways to search. The first is the old way, with the customized Google Search in the sidebar. The second is by clicking on the new, searchable tags that are at the bottom of every post starting in August. All you have to do is click on the tag you want to search on. MR is proud to enter the year 2005.
(3) The donation buttons are pretty much unchanged. They’re just sitting there in the sidebar all alone and neglected, waiting for someone – anyone – to click on them.
(4) The About section has been cleaned up to make it look less like the scribblings of an overeager grade schooler trying to imitate the resume of a particularly apathetic used car salesman. Now it looks like the scribblings of a particularly apathetic PhD student trying to imitate the business card of an overeager business consultant
(5) The GIYUS alert thing is still there, so that we can judgmentally shake our head every time major pro-Israel watchdog groups issue alerts about a story two days after it breaks.
The other sections – our other blogs, your blogs, the monthly archives list – are self-explanatory. This, alas, distinguishes them very little from anything else in this post. So here’s a story about how Israeli scientists are building a time machine. Maybe they’ll let you borrow it so you can try to get the last 3 and a half minutes of your life back (via One Jerusalem)
References:
* Israeli researchers tout time machine model
Previously:
* JIB FINALS! JIB FINALS! (Plus: Painfully Hot Israeli Hottie Anna Zaikin)
* MR On the Radio – KUCI 88.9 Interview Tomorrow
* Israel Tops World In R&D Investment, 2nd In Education [Video]
