I’m a dork. I wrote this great post yesterday about how today is the deadline for the “Win a Blog! contest. Then I didn’t publish it. So now I’m here to tell you that you have less than 2 hours to write some fabulous work and submit them. If you can pull it off, you can win a blog, hosting, a new design and a lot of other cool stuff.
Two hours. You can do it! You can do it!
As you have probably heard by now, MT has released MT 3.0. I read about it first at Emily’s and then read Mena’s post about the release. Next I read Dave’s post about the whole thing. But it was Les’s post that probably got to me the most.
I run 5 blogs just to generate content for Big Pink Cookie. I have Pixelog also running under the same install of MT. On top of that, I have a blog that is just in draft mode that I keep notes for myself in, little reference things for later.
Running 7 blogs, under the new license terms, would require me to pay $700. SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. $119 at the introductory price, minus the money I have already donated to MT over the years. (I just read the fee page again.)
I’m all for supporting MT, I have done it since the day it came online. I installed it within a few weeks of the very first release. Even though I know Photo Matt and helped name WordPress, I have remained loyal to MT. Thanks to MT 3.0, that is something I will have to reconsider. I have to decide if I have the time to migrate and learn a new system, or just spend the money for the new license. I don’t like either option. I really don’t want to have to move things around, so I will probably go with the upgraded license.
As a hosting company owner, I like that they are opening up the ability to install blogs for clients and so forth – at least that was my initial impression, but I will need to go back through the license again to understand that further. The previous license was very rigid in that area.
I hope that they will reconsider the license agreements for personal users though. Limiting users to 3 blogs for free defeats one of the major draws to MT. Funny thing is, I would probably consider donating that much to MT, but being told I must pay it just rubs me the wrong way.
By the way – can anyone e-mail me the zip files for the last release of MT, both the upgrade and the full install? I’d really appreciate it!
With the wedding just a few weeks away (May 29th), the time has come. Mike moved his big mongo computer setup over here last weekend. Ideally, this shouldn’t effect me in any way. (Well, except the ergonomic keyboard issue.) It should be business as usual. The network should be happy.
Instead, it has left me beating my head on my laptop for over an hour. I have almost NO internet connection. I only have half of the photos I need for a project I am working on downloaded from my e-mail. I can’t upload photos, it times out every time I try. Why?!? Why now?!? Why me?!?
Finally, I give up on the laptop. I figure I will try using his desktop computer. It doesn’t have a photo editor on it (at least I don’t think it does), but maybe I can do something. Anything.
Then I discover that he is downloading a 2730mb file. 2.7gb. A HUGE, huge, HUGE file. Well, craptastic. No wonder I can’t see the web! The poor computer sounds like it wants to cry. Everything is working at maxed out full speed. I still can’t really get on the Internet, and it won’t let me download the images I need. I have no clue if this is work stuff or fun stuff, and I don’t want to kill the download and then find out he needed it for a 9 am meeting. But … GAH! I wanted to finish what I was working on!
From now on, there will have to be rules about huge file downloads. We are a multi-PC household; we can’t go cutting someone else off by hogging all the bandwidth!
Ever since Google acquired Blogger, I wondered why they didn’t have a blog. Now they finally do. [via Biz Stone]
In other news, I can’t stand ergonomic keyboards. Mike has been moving his stuff in to the house over the past few weeks, and his computer has finally made the move – along with the funky curved split keyboard. I truly hate typing on this thing. I am normally a 87+ wpm typist, with no errors. On this thing, I’m going to wear out the backspace key just cleaning things up! Gah!
As Emily announced earlier today, Blogomania (aka – me) is sponsoring her “Win a Free Blog For a Year!” contest. You can go here for all the details. Submissions for the contest go to her, not to me.
It’s a writing contest, so show her what you’ve got! You know you have always wanted a Blogomania blog!
Here’s the full scoop:
You get: domain registration for one year (at the domain of her choice), domain hosting from Blogomania for one year (a $100 value) and a MediumMoxie design package from BlogMoxie (valued at $189). She wants to make sure the that the blogging world is enhanced by this contribution, so she is (we are?) looking for the best writer. Here are the rules:
1. Submit 3 writing samples. One entry can be on any topic of your choosing. The other two must be selected from the following list: most embarrassing moment, first day of school (any grade/college), a how-to (i.e. build a bookcase, tie a corset, piss off your neighbor, give the perfect blowjob, etc.), or a movie review.
2. There is no minimum or maximum entry length.
3. I will not judge this contest. Judges will be selected randomly and given anonymous entries. If you’d like to be a judge, please email Emily. You may not enter the contest and be a judge.
4. You will have until May 18th to submit your entries to her email address. Please provide a valid email address with your submission.
5. Winner will be announced May 28th.
Update: There are now runner-up prizes generously donated by Mice (a $20 amazon.com gift certificate) and Casey (a $15 Amazon.com gift certificate)!