Spring Cleaning

    Remember all that work I did a couple weeks ago, to try and decrease the size of my database and relieve load times for my page? You know, my efforts to remove older entries and put them in plain old static HTML Archive pages? Well, I spent today and last night undoing all that. I’ve restored all those older entries back into the database. This at least should make those older entries searchable, alongside the rest of my entries.
    I also got rid of those old Food, TV, Gadgets, and Movies pages. They were mainstays here, staples for the site which had been in existence before I’d even known about “blogging”; but now all their content has been absorbed into the main database. And, so I can still maintain those “four basic food groups” (as it were), I’ve begun breaking everything into categories. I should have established that practice from the outset, as soon as I started using pMachine, because now I’m forced to do it retroactively. Nevertheless, I’ll be marking most entries by category now, and you’ll probably start seeing little “symbol bugs” soon. I do not recommend looking for stuff by category though, since it will probably take forever for such a list to load.
    Speaking of load times, now that the links have increased for archived months I’ve moved them out of the old “Archives” box and put them in their own column, at the very end of the page. Hopefully, if/when a page load times-out (as happens so frequently at my workplace), the bulk of the page should still load.
    Sound good?
    P.S.: There will be a few more changes showing up too, in the near future. I’ll probably be moving the “Random Photo” box to its own photoblog soon. Not only are photoblogs becoming more prevalent (which of course means I want one too), but I took everyone’s advice and got myself a new camera!