Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Gillian Jacobs Totally Looks Like Anna Friel

Published on November 20, 2008 in Photo. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Last night we were watch­ing Fringe and I thought Anna Friel (from Push­ing Daisies) was the bad guy, but it turns out it was Gillian Jacobs.

Aurora Borealis from the ISS

Published on November 15, 2008 in Space and Video. 2 Comments


This video was made from stills taken by Don­ald R. Pet­tit dur­ing his stay at the Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion in 2003. I can’t help, but feel moved when I watch this. You can see so much, the many stars in the back­ground, the lights, man. It is real. It is really hap­pen­ing. This is outer space. This is the Earth’s atmosphere.

Moving Existential Media from Movable Type to WordPress

Published on November 13, 2008 in Internet. 0 Comments

Over the last two days I moved Exis­ten­tial Media from Mov­able Type to Word­Press MU. Here is the process I fol­lowed to achieve this.

  1. Cre­ate new blog in Wordpress.
  2. Cre­ate the new author in Wordpress.
  3. Export posts from Mov­able Type blog.
  4. Import posts into Word­Press blog.
  5. Move Mov­able Type blog files to Word­Press blog files directory.
  6. Have Mov­able Type gen­er­ate a .htac­cess file to redi­rect old posts to new posts.
    Redirect 301 /merde/ http://existentialmedia.org/merde/
    Redirect 301 /merde/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1" trim_to="30"$>/ http://existentialmedia.org/merde/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryTitle encode_url="1"$>/
  7. Run sql find and replace to update links to files like images, mp3s, etc.
    update wp_2_posts set post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://existentialmedia.org/merde/', 'http://existentialmedia.org/merde/files/merde/')