Author: Teel

It’s just after midnight, so I guess I’m supposed to do a Four-Hour Comic “today”. I have it pencilled in for starting … right after breakfast, whenever that turns out to be, so that I have plenty of “cushion” time after my four hours are up and before supper. Because supper is an interruption I cannot resist.

But for now, I will try to sleep. I haven’t been able to sleep this early without medication in a while, but I’m going to give it a shot.

And I’m going to wake up refreshed and I’m going to make a great comic! Whee!

Okay, after less than 24 hours and only two personal phone calls from one of the head guys behind BitPass (who had my number from August, when BitPass didn’t work on Easyspace) and two versions of a customized piece of software later, BitPass works again at Modern Evil, thus: I have updated my first Four-Hour Comic for the day. You can keep reading it slow like this, or just buy the whole thing for a quarter!

That should REALLY be everything. Again, keep me informed if you run into problems. Thanks!

Everyone should have received an email with instructions on how to log into the new server. If you didn’t, email me, and we’ll get you in ASAP.

If you emailed me this weekend, or anyone @modernevil.com, they might not ever receive the email. Please re-send it.
If you have an @modernevil.com email address, you need to contact me. Heath, Zuri, Iain, I’ve got you covered, your email should be forwarding … soon? (And if you want POP access, let me know, I’ll set you up.) I can’t remember anyone else with one who I haven’t already contacted, but … hey. If you exist, you won’t be able to receive mail with your old setup anymore. Contact me for the new setup. OOH! It includes webmail, which I will explain how to use to any of you.

Actually anyone with a login here at Modern Evil can have their very own @modernevil.com email address if they like, just ask. Moo.

Movable Type appears to be working right, all the links look like they’re right … if you have any trouble or questions, let me know. Seriously. An image doesn’t load, an error message comes up, anything, please, please, please, let me know.

Oh, and in case I haven’t mentioned it enough times, all the permanent links to all the entries ever made anywhere on Modern Evil are now changed. Google … probably has no idea. Might not for weeks. Hard to say. If you’ve given people direct links to specific posts, they’re now wrong. Nothing I can do about that, unfortunately.

Oh, one more thing. Let me know (I can’t really tell, here on dial-up) if things seem faster or slower or the same speed as they were before. This is important. Especially the speed of posting, which I guess was the slowest part before. Your feedback will help me decide whether to stay with 1&1, or go back to Easyspace until my contract is up there. If I do end up going back to Easyspace, I’ll likely move to Dreamhost next summer. But if 1&1 works out, it’s free for me for three full years. If it works out, I’ll tell you how YOU can get free hosting with them for three full years.

That’s it for now, I think. I hope there aren’t any catastrophic problems.

I am currently working on things to try to get everything up and running as it should be. I finally have ‘direct’ access to the mySQL tables, which helps. I seem to have got email … sortof … hopping along a little… it should be working … soon enough. Unfortunately, every email sent to every modernevil.com email address this weekend may, in fact, never arrive.

Hopefully, mail-sending servers are persistent and will retry and retry, because if they retry now-ish, their messages should begin to creep through.

I’m going to have to call everyone to give them their new email settings, but … that’s later, I think.

First, get the site working.

I just woke up.

Sigh.

Maybe I’ll try a sleeping pill at 9 tonight. Depends on my progress with the site today, I guess.

Oh well.