I switched over to a new host for MarkPNeyer.com, for several reasons. My friend had been hosting the website for free, which I greatly appreciated. He didn’t have a lot of time to work on a free hosting service, though, so when I wanted to install askismet to filter spam out of the blog, I realized I had to upgrade wordpress and that would have been a huge hassle.
I was able to get a sql dump out of the old blog, but the database format for the blog changed between whatever version I was using then, and whatever version it is that I’m using now. (How do I check that?) So, after a lot of database finagling, with PhpMyAdmin and such, I finally have all the old posts and comments restored. The only problem at this point is that the WordPress people decided to cache the value of ‘comments’ for each post, which means that my default value of ‘0′ makes it look like all of the old pages have no comments on them, which isn’t true. If I really cared, I could write a SQL script to figure out how comments there were and fix this egregious error. Heck, maybe I will. Maybe.
Last night, Xavier had a ‘WorldQuest International Trivia Contest.’ My team, Math/Computer Science Team, came in second out of 30 or so teams. Not bad, I had a few decent guesses myself.
I am working on an awesome senior project for computer science, and waiting to hear back from graduate programs. So far, only stanford has replied, with a big fat ‘NO’. Those jerks.
I should get back to doing my homework and such, but I’m quite giddy with excitement over having my blog back up again. Hopefully, everyone who read it didn’t just run off after it stopped working.