Conspiring against me

I'm still trying to get everything working - Movable Type is a little bit daunting when you've come straight from Blogger :)

I was trying to change the archive paths for individual entries on Friday and wrote something stupid, which is why the permalinks didn't work until last night when I changed them to what they are now. Which I suppose means that until then they were temporalinks or something.

Now I have to do the comments template... all the different archive templates... the Blogger archives...

...and then the world! (It's on my To Do list.)

I spent most of yesterday trying to sort out a rather large problem, which started with me waking up to find an (automated) email in my inbox informing me that I should delete some files or request some more disk space since I had - since Wednesday, when I ordered my hosting - filled up 100% of my 150MB disk space.

Like hell I had, I thought, and went to my file manager to find that there was a number of files named core.##### (5 digit file extension). The one that caught my eye was 25,759,744 bytes in size.

The one that really caught my attention, however, was 125,659,800 bytes.

And this meant that I couldn't rebuild my files with MT because (I thought) there was no disk space left. I then found out that the files were being generated every time I tried to rebuild my files which, as someone cleverer than me found out last night, was due to my having tried to use an invalid attribute with an MT tag somewhere in the weblog config. It caused an infinite loop which filled up all of my disk space and then it terminated with the error. This is why I couldn't post anything yesterday or affect change with any of the templates.

By the way, at this point I'd like to publicly laud the efforts and praise the name of Jace, who is a support guy at Bloghosts. Everything I've asked or needed support for has been answered within an hour (except for once, but it was about 5am in his timezone then), and he's been tireless in sorting out my problems. If you want excellent user support, choose Bloghosts!

[Okay, plug over now.]

My aim is to have the templates done by tomorrow evening at the latest. We'll see.