A strange post… considering the one it follows, but I’ve decided to re-purpose “tanh.net” and migrate it’s content to “adie.me“:

• Months ago I purchased the domain “adie.me“, mostly because I liked the idea of having the email address “m[@]adie[.]me” (Matt Adie .me  –  cheesy I know but I like it).
• I’ve also had the urge to use “tanh.net” for something (I know not what) other than a personal blog. ..  and really… that’s what “adie.me” seems made for.

I’ve also decided to give Wordpress a try.  I love Drupal but:

• It always leads me down a path of complexity, and due to a heavy use of modules I always seem to have a difficult time upgrading.
• It’s incredibly versatile, and I highly recommend it as a CMS, but generally speaking  it’s overkill for a blog.
• It seems to be resource heavy on my shared hosting service’s mysql server

So I’ve migrated my content,  and all the posts from “tanh.net” can be found at “adie.me” under the category “From Tanh” or within the archives.

I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with “tanh.net“,  but hopefully I can come up with something interesting…

You may have noticed that the photo and video sections of this site have disappeared... This is because I've had some compatibility issues upgrading from an early version of Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.9. It may take me a little while to get around to it, but I do plan to restore most of the missing content. I will also be adding a fair bit of new content, and the order of things may change to reflect it.

I must say that I’m happy to be back, and outside of my upgrade issues Drupal 6 is a beautiful thing.

You I never realized the number of sites that have been using drupal: The Onion, Warner Brothers, HarvardScience, SonyBMG's BS Weekly, Amnesty International, Popular Science, and Forbes Office Pranks.

Oh the shame of neglect... poor blog. I really must do something to revive it, and I think I'll begin with a Drupal update and a redesign.

Haven't blogged much (or trained much) this week... I've been focusing heavily on rebuilding my Gentoo (a Linux distro) Mythtv box (a home brew PVR), rebuilding and streamlining Gentoo for my Transmeta chipped ultra portable (sweet but weak), and setting up Drupal 5.2 (and a series of modules) to be the backbone of my Mile-End portal.

I've been overdue for a serious geek out session. Once I get focused on something 4 or 5 hours can pass in the blink of an eye. I've actually forgotten to eat once this week, and I haven't done that in a while... it's hard to forget to eat when you're always hungry from pushing your physical limits.

And BTW the new Gentoo graphical installer is crap, or at least it's currently in the state of being so buggy that it's crap. The old school Gentoo install method is almost preferable at this point... I love Gentoo once I have it up and running, but the process of getting it there is somewhat time consuming... I'm just a little disappointed because I thought the new installer would save some hastle.

I installed the Drupal trackbacks module a few days ago, and man there are a lot of spammers out there. Fortunately Drupal has a badbehavior module, a bayesian spam module, and the statistics module that makes it easy to ban IP addresses.

January Site Goals:

• Plan 2007 race schedule and post it in Events
• Write 2007 training plan
• Plan article ideas on: off season training, Gentoo, and Mile-End
• Expand graffiti photo collection
• Start Mile-End photo collection
• Look into options related to podcasting

I just added close to 200 photos of Montreal graffiti, murals, and street art (2007 version) to the Photos or if you prefer Flash Photos section of this site.

  When I was walking around taking photos, a couple of homeless people told me to capture a particular piece of graffiti... Apparently in the piece below you can spot 6 hidden things (I haven't really tried yet). One one of them also insisted that I take his photo (seen to the left).

I've been at Laika now for the past 3 hours playing with photos and hanging out with friends. Once again I have to state that I love this place. At the moment it's quite the laptop farm (I count 9).

I've finally found a Drupal module that will batch up load photos using drupal's native gallery method! Therefore, I've added a bunch of new photos and there will be more to come. I've also added a Flash viewer as an extra fancy (pinky in the air) method of viewing my photo galleries: it's called "Flash Photos" in the menu.

So just in case I find myself unable to work with wireless in Moncton, I've setup the proper servers to run a local version of my site on my laptop. Therefore if you don't seen any new content over the next week, you can expect a jump the day before new years.