Month: October 2002

I have seen posts around the weblog world about people signing up for NaNoWriMo. (No, I am not one of them. I am not that crazy – have too much to do already!) I realized this morning that if you are doing that and you are using MT to record your writing, you can also use it to count your words! All you need is the Word count plugin for Movable Type from the Kalsey Consulting Group!

Other nifty plug-ins that I need to run myself include the On this day…, the Sanitize plugin (more on that here), related entries plugin (sample code at Unmade) and many more. Matter of fact, the Kalsey Consulting MT archives are right here if you want some more ideas! (And Kymberlie? They have MTAmazon Sample Templates here.) There are a lot of other plugins listed at the MT Resources page. Check them out!

Did something change to the blogs that are now running MT 2.5? Earlier, I was at Robyn’s site and I went to link to her. She has already upgraded to MT 2.5 and I haven’t yet (ahhh, the pitfalls of having a social life!) I noticed that when I use my MT 2.21 bookmarklet, I no longer get a list of posts to choose from to TrackBack ping. Dude! What’s up with that? I want my list back!

What? Did I say that *I* have a social life? Yes, it seems to be true. It’s quite nice too, although it doesn’t leave a ton of time for things like upgrading MT. Last night I went out for dinner with Elaine & her husband Kenny, Kathy & her husband Tom, Robert, Oscar, Sky, Joe, EJ, Sherry, and Mike. After dinner most of us headed over to Ashbury’s and I had a great talk with EJ, Sherry & Mike about kids and other things. All in all, when it was said and done it was a fantastic time.

Today has been spent doing the fun house things like laundry, vacuuming, dusting … ah, the pleasures of life. Then I took Mike out to the airport so he could head off for Holland & London for a week. I am glad I parked and went in with him – he almost had to stay behind! They issued him a paper ticket instead of an e-ticket, but didn’t tell him – so he never got the ticket! All turned out ok in the end, it was just a matter of going to the ticketing counter, getting them to issue a new one, and then he was off. I offered to go along to carry his suitcase for him but he didn’t take me up on it. Damn. And I really wanted to go meet D and Ann!

A new feature added over at Picture Yourself? You can now ping the entries! Ping! Ping! So if you want to ping the photos there – now you can!