Out of Cheese

This site received about 10 comment spams today, which was sufficient motivation to head on over to Jay Allen’s site to pick up MT-Blacklist. But after months of ignoring new Movable Type releases because I didn’t want to take the time to learn how to upgrade my MT 2.5.1 installation, I was stuck — MT-Blacklist requires MT 2.6 or later.

About 45 minutes later, this site is now running Movable Type 2.6.4. It was a nearly painless upgrade — “nearly” because I forgot that Rescomp’s local installation of Perl invariably always has the wrong set of modules installed, so I had to redirect the MT CGI scripts to point to Stanford’s AFS version of Perl instead. Unfortunately, I didn’t remember that until I spent about half an hour trying to remember enough of object-oriented Perl to debug the Movable Type scripts.

I think everything is working now, but if it isn’t, please send me a note.