I cannot believe I locked myself out of my blog ... on my own server.

The funny thing is how, really. Every time I tried to login it said it didn't know who I was. Without being able to login, I couldn't look at the log to see what was wrong. It was never important, so I just left it be for a while.

Well, now I'm trying to prepare all the sites for the move to Drupal 5.0 and I'm stripping out unused modules so I know what bare minimum each site's going to need, etc. and I got tired of leaving this site alone and looked into it. Well, it turns out there was a collation problem in the users table where the table was set for UTF8 and the columns were set to ... somehow ... latin1-sweedish. Yeah, bork bork.

PHPMyAdmin to the rescue (by manually reading the watchdog table and altering the users table) and now it works. I cannot believe I let it go this long...

bq.. WASHINGTON - In a striking defeat for President Bush, White House counsel Harriet Miers on Thursday abandoned her bid to become a Supreme Court justice after three weeks of brutal criticism from fellow conservatives. The Senate's top Republican predicted a replacement candidate within days.

"Bush Stung As Miers Withdraws Nomination - Yahoo! News":http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051028/ap_on_go_su_co/miers_withdraws;_ylt=Aj2vzCI9XmSrSOFY3QfJ3U.yFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

p. Next up, Bush nominates his old kindergarten teacher as the Secretary of Education and his Tao Bo coach as the Secretary of Defense. He'd pick Arnie, but he's too busy finding new ways to teach Californians that they shouldn't be so quick to vote the celebrity ticket.

I "shit you not":http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid22037.asp, Sulu is gay.

I mean, not that it took a big stretch of the imagination or anything.

Am I the only one sick of seeing graphic depictions of infected toenails everywhere I look? First I have to sit through little jumping fungi on TV (now I fast-forward, thank you TiVo) and now they’re taking out skyscraper ads on the dictionary sites I frequent.

They’d make a killing if they pushed anti-nausea pills right after those ads. A killing.

I hate these badges. Hate. But, yeah, that’s me all right.

It’s a blog. I’m posting it. Get over it.

Besides, it’s fun to see if the tests are decent or not. It appears they are for me, at least. I’ve always fashioned myself equally left- and right-brained. Perhaps how I can love design and writing and then make computer programs and fix the damned things.