Cameron's Thoughts

I think this is for today only, but in celebration of their 10-year anniversary, you can get a free copy of Opera. If you haven't already registered this program, I would take advantage of this.

For those who were wondering my political beliefs:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95

You can find out what you are at http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Today I upgraded Movable Type, the software that does much of the work behind the scenes to this site, to version 3.2. This is still in beta, but is on the 4th and what is likely to be the final beta. I am very impressed with the update. To all the people who were bummed when MT3.0 didn't really have any new features, here you go. MT3.0 was a complete redesign of the software that allowed for what they have now come out with. This is the feature release everyone was waiting for. I actually disabled MT-Blacklist for the first in a long time and an going to go with just SpamLookup and the new built-in spam security features. I guess we will see how that goes. Also, I upgraded to a beta version of MT-Notifier. That is what is used to subscribe to entries. It doesn't seem to be working, so I will have to investigate that. Right now, the subscribe checkbox does nothing, and if you subscribed before, you will not be notified of any new comments.
One thing to note, not technically a bug in MT, but they have gotten more picky on templates having valid code. I tried rebuilding my site and my mobile site errored out. This was actually my fault as I was missing an opening MTEntries tag. But, that must have been like that for a while and MT never gave me any trouble. So, if you have sloppy templates, you may find that they don't work like they used to.
The only other thing that is bothering me right now, is they have gone back to sans-serif fonts in the Movable Type control panel. This is what they had back in MT2, and it seemed to be a nice little improvement. I usually use HTML-Kit to edit the templates, so it's not a big deal, but most code editing is done with serif fonts, so that seems more natural. I may edit the Movable Type templates to get the fonts back, but that will be a project for another day.

I meant to post this for a little while now. Brett's actually been walking for about a week and a half now. He didn't start this weekend, but the weekend before that, the end of my vacation. He has also been eating more and more solid food. He only has four teeth, but the other day he ate a whole French fry.

Personally, if I didn't like Opera as much as Joe Clark does, I just simply wouldn't use it and move on. Or at least learn how to customize to the way I wanted.
He is actually more upset with the "fanboys" now, and not so much as the software itself. He posted back in March about the Opera 8 beta. I posted a comment on Joel's site and I still feel the same way. Almost everything that Joe mentioned is just the normal software behavior that can simply be ignored (calling tabs windows for instance), or can be customized (keyboard shortcuts). I haven't used Opera on a Mac, but if it's anything like the Windows or Linux versions, which I am almost certain it is, you can easily customize all the shortcut by simply going into the preferences. The only reason I really write this is because Joe really came off as some arrogant know-it-all who simply couldn't be wrong about anything. And, before I am called some Opera "fanboy", I don't even use Opera anymore. I loved it, but have since switched to Firefox. And not because of the price either, I have a registered copy of Opera, I just love Firefox's extensions to much. Ah, whatever. I love some of the comments over at 456 Berea St.

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