Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Dr. Rudd... Paging Dr. Rudd... Justin Rudd: "I'm going pre-med. Yep. I'm going to give it a go and see if I can't become a doctor. I'm going to see if I can't meld my knowledge of software with medicine and really start helping people." I think this is awesome! I've always looked up to medical professionals. If you really know what they go through and can see the dedication they have, you can appreciate the drive required to be a doctor. Having the power to heal the human body is, in my opinion, an incredible gift. Good luck to you Justin! Please keep blogging! :) 10:00:02 PM

What are you doing here?! Ok, while I'm editing my previous entry, Norton Internet Security pops up and tells me an external IP is trying to get to my Radio URL (port 5335). At first, this didn't surprise me. I'm sure when people realize you have Radio installed that they'll try and find your IP address so they can hack into your blog. I normally wouldn't think much of this but I was just curious where it came from so I ran a 'tracert' on the address: C:>tracert 216.239.46.193 Tracing route to crawl8.googlebot.com [216.239.46.193] over a maximum of 30 hops: .... Googlebot?! Why is one of Googles spiders trying to hit my Radio server? And where did they get my address? Well, I know it's on all of my visits to Google -- but I really doubt that Google is taking IP address and trying to spider on port 5335 to find Radio servers. Wierd... 9:17:57 PM

Radio woes... This will be my last month with Radio!. Wow.  It's stubborn this time.  Usually the second post of the month clears Radio of it's constipation.  Not this time :( [System.Error.Emit] It seems this bug has finally been found -- and fixed! However, I'm still moving on. I spent most of last night with my Radio-to-MoveableType conversion program. I whipped up a quick convertor about a month or so ago that would export my Radio entries into a flat text file format that MoveableType would import. It worked fine, but I wanted more. I wanted all of my links converted too. So I picked up a MySQL tool that pretty much mirrors SQL Enterprise Manager. This allowed me to browse the tables that make up MoveableType. It's a very lean and compact setup -- perhaps that why it's so reliable! Anyway, a few hours of coding with the ODBC driver for MySQL I had a conversion app that would read through my Radio posts, put them into MoveableType's MySQL database and then go back and resolve links to internal posts. I should probably clean it up and post it. In the interest of time, I hard coded a bunch of the items in each blog entry (like blog_id, publishing status, author_id, etc...) It would be easy to create a WinForm that would allow input of these items. Hey -- if anyone wants to take a stab at the front end, let me know. I'll try and get the pieces cleaned up tonight. 9:04:44 PM

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