SysMango.com update for October 16
I just finished an update of the site to the latest version of Drupal 5 to close a potential security issue reported by the Drupal team. And looking at the site, I couldn't help but notice that it has been over a month since I last posted anything. Not exactly living up to my own expectations for the site. And yet, I'm still more active than a few people I know.
A big part of the issue has been that I'm in one of those phases where the computer just represents work. Sometimes a lot of work. And not all of it enjoyable. Not that anything is wrong with work. It's just that sometimes I am looking for something more than just using the computer.
Yes, you read that right. Sometimes Butch doesn't like computers any more than you do. They're not a toy. They're a tool I use to make a living. Well, maybe they're not always just a toy. Maybe just most of the time I use computers as toys. But it's not like I'm playing games with them. Not video games, at least.
I'm pretty much at the place where video games are just for my kids. But that's another story.
The update was done to protect against a security hole. I am going to be going back through the modules for Drupal 6. I will be looking to see if enough of the modules I use have been updated or have replacements for Drupal 6. I may just decide to unpublish some of the content (like the polls) that rely on some of the modules that have not or will not make the jump from D5 to D6.
I will be trying to post more about what I am doing. I guess my biggest fear is that I'm boring. I know that a lot of things I think about are not exactly unique. I really try hard to not talk about politics, work or the war. I think I should leave politics and war to those that actually have a clue about those topics. And what is what I am sometimes trying to escape.
I don't want the to be unused, but I also do not want to just repost things that have been posted elsewhere. And I don't want the site to become a single topic, one dimensional affair (which I'm afraid I did with the Uru-related content).
As part of upgrading the site, I will be going through and reviewing all of the content again. I am thinking about tweaking the taxonomy and organizing things differently. I have a to-do list with about 40 items that need something added back, edited or changed in someway. There are almost 1000 nodes on this site between this blog, the almost never used forums and a couple of other pages. (This post being node 993).
Maybe I'll try to do something special for node 1000. And then maybe not. I'll more than likely just put some kind of meaningless placeholder in node 1000. It's not like anyone even sees the numbers anymore.
If anyone has any ideas or comments, please feel free to either comment or send me a message.
