This site is now fully Django powered! I just finished moving my photo album over to my custom Django version. That was the only remaining PHP part of the site, so now it's all Django baby.

This blog is now Django powered. Now I just have to come up with something interesting to write. Uh oh.

Sorry for how ugly it is too, I'm not exactly a designer.

This post is mostly a test.

Yay, I finally managed to fix my photo album (its been broken basically since I got back from Vancouver). I also uploaded the last sevenish pictures from my trip. They're mostly wildlife around the Lost Lagoon. Sorry if anyone tried to access it before and it wasn't working. Let me know if it stops working again.

For my own reference, here's what I did to fix it:

It seems the problem was that Coppermine expects you to have either register_globals or register_long_arrays on (not sure which). Those are off on TextDrive, and they discourage turning them on. So I went the other way and changed the php files. Make the following changes to all files - make sure to get the php files in subdirecctories too:

HTTP_GET_VARS -> _GET
HTTP_POST_VARS -> _POST
HTTP_POST_FILES -> _FILES
HTTP_COOKIE_VARS -> _COOKIE
HTTP_SERVER_VARS -> _SERVER

And in case anyone else is reading this, I don't know PHP at all, these changes were just what I could glean from some quick skimming of stuff I found on google, so it may have broken something subtle that I haven't detected yet. However, it seems to work, so I'm optimistic that it will continue to work in the future.

I've switched web hosting companies from Linksky to TextDrive. There was nothing wrong with Linksky, but TextDrive allows its users great power to do lots of cool stuff on their sites. The thing that got me was that they embrace Python, and allow things like Django, which I want to use for some things on this site (coming soon). So I made the decision to switch.

I had decided this a month or so ago, but there was a problem. TextDrive was in the process of moving their data center to San Diego (they're right off Aero Drive apparently). Due to the move, they weren't accepting any new clients. Drat. When they finally got the move all finished and started accepting clients again, they offered a fantastic deal, lifetime hosting. Just pay a (somewhat large) one time fee and never get a bill from them again. I worked it out, and it pays for itself in like 3 years. They've done this before, in the past when they needed some "VC" money, and had said they'd never do it again. I was jealous of the lifetime customers when I was reading about TextDrive, and now here I had the chance to become one. I jumped on it. So I'm here for life. And I think that's their life, not mine, so be nice to me and maybe I'll put you in my will to get this account when I get hit by a bus.

Anyway, this is a long winded way of saying that if you're reading this post, you're reading it on the new server at TextDrive, so welcome.

Is this thing on?