Movable Type problems on powweb.com

For some reason Movable Type on my host (powweb.com) has started flip-flopping in its behavior. So now I cannot post an entry directly. If I publish an entry it does not appear on the main page. I have to an explicit rebuild which looks ridiculous.
The category archiving has failed completely. Comments do not work. The worlds are colliding.
My hosting provider graciously declined to help which means I am on my own to debug.
So I have to explore other options like
(a) Fix the problem
(b) Move to another hosting service
Till one of them happens there will not be any more posts. If you have suggestions for a good MT Hosting Service please mail me at tiptronicus [at] gmail dot com.

Blog Mela at Ashish's place

This week’s blog mela is up at Ashish’s Niti. This time there are couple of entries from non-Indians as well. The next one is up at Opti-Mystic
While on the topic of Indian bloggers, Rojo is a new online service for managing your RSS/Atom Feeds, similar to bloglines. When you login to Rojo you get an initial list of blogs in various categories to subscribe to. Now they have new Indian Bloggers bundle for subscribers which includes feeds from AnarCapLib, EMERGIC, Jivha (Who does not blog anymore), The Examined Life etc.
Even though it was me who sent the mail to Chris Alden, this blog is not in the list 🙁

Some Changes

When you blog about something, that entry stays on your main page for a few days and then it sinks down into your personal blog blackhole almost never to surface again. I found two plugins to bring some of those entries back to the surface again.

  • OnThisDay brings up old entries blogged on the same day in previous years. (Example on the sidebar)
  • RelatedEntries is a tag on the Individual Archive Page and displays 3 (configurable) entries in the same category.

I still don’t like the look and feel of this blog, so I will be actively stealing your CSS files.
Also speaking of MT, there is an excellent blog called Movalog by Aravind on customizing MT. (He is only 15 years old)