Don't put your blog in your user directory. The good folks at Apache kind of assume you're not doing that, and are constantly coming up with new ways to make Apache more secure in that area, which guarantees that your blog software will stop working the minute you upgrade. It is nice to be able to root around in your blog space without having to be root, and change a thing here and there. But it causes headaches like I've had since I got back two days ago.
Before you upgrade Apache, do an export of your MT blog. In case, you know, you never get it working again after the upgrade, and you need to switch to Wordpress or something.
FINALLY. I signed up for Yahoo[u.p.o.] Mail Beta probably two months ago. Lately I've been growing more and more dissatisfied with Yahoo. I mean, it's generally getting better -- they've finally added the ability to write HTML mail in Firefox on Linux, for example, which is generally a good thing -- but there have been other lingering problems, and I've been thinking more seriously of switching over to Gmail.
One big thing about regular Yahoo mail is that I can't look at photos if someone sends me a bunch of photos in an e-mail. I think it's not just a non-IE thing. I open the e-mail, and I see all the thumbnails for the photos. Then I click on one, and rather than seeing the corresponding full-size image immediately, I get a download page where Yahoo tells me it has been scanned for viruses. Then, for some reason, the button on that page that's supposed to display the image doesn't. I think Yahoo is sending the wrong MIME type, and my browser doesn't recognize it. This means I must download every single image individually from the e-mail, and view the images with a local image viewer. OR, I can forward the e-mail to my Gmail account, and view them the way God meant me to. Note to the Mozilla Foundation: why, oh WHY is there no way of telling the browser that the file you just downloaded with an unrecognized MIME type is really a JPEG, or a PNG, or a text file, and that the browser really IS capable of displaying it without any plugins or external applications? I hate not being able to view shell scripts directly in the browser.
The next thing that bothers me, which I'm fairly certain YMB will address, is the fact that after you get done looking at an e-mail, and you go back to the message listing, there's no indication of what message you were just looking at. You want to clean out your inbox a bit, and you've had a 6-message exchange with Paul, and most of them copy some other message in its entirety, so you want to identify and delete the relevant ones, but once you've looked at one and decided it's a keeper, you can't go back and easily find the one you wanted to delete. Something like that. Anyway, I often have situations where I need to know which message I was looking at, and not having that info makes such things damned difficult.
On the subject of the HTML mail composition thing, what sucks about regular Yahoo mail's implementation of it is that, to change between HTML mail and un-bloated mail, you have to go all the way into your mail options to change it. Gmail provides a link right underneath the text input box as you're writing. You can start it off as a plain text message, and then change your mind: click that link, and viola, you're composing an e-mail that's 4 times as bulky as it needs to be!
Just yesterday or so I sent the Yahoo[u.p.o.] folks a congratulatory e-mail on their new Yahoo[u.p.o.] Maps Beta (wherein I used my trademark "[u.p.o.]" thing); wonder if that bumped me higher on the list for Yahoo Mail Beta?
OK, enough writing on this; time to go check out the goods, and see if they've delivered on all the stuff I need.
OK, this is a bit old, but I should have noted this when it was new. Um... read this. M'kay?
The following headline had me confused for a bit:
Two Bodies May Be Missing N.H. Children (AP)
This reminds me of some funny, multiply-parsable headlines, like "Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal", "Prostitutes Appeal to Pope", etc.