I had a plan to fix up a few things around my website, and start a process that would migrate the older static data on the site into newer dynamic tools (like WordPress and Gallery.) So, I put a new version of phpMyAdmin in place. It’s a back-end tool I use to look at the databases that help run the site. No errors or problems with that upgrade.

Then I started on Gallery. I decided to move to the 1.5-RC1 version instead of an older 1.4x release. This upgrade went well enough, but I had a really hard time getting the image libraries it uses (netpbm or ImageMagick) to build properly. My webserver is an old Solaris 5.8 Ultra1, and I couldn’t get the packages to build from scratch or get the prepackaged tools to use. I finally though I found it and got things working, but now it turns out I can’t upload because of a shared library issue… So, I have to look into that. I might just move ahead migrating www-dave to a newer Linux platform that has more things already built in. So, the new Gallery is online, but I can’t upload anything to it. Yet. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the gallery and see the new features. The big requested one: RSS for the galleries. Although, I’m putting more pictures on Flickr now than I am my own gallery. *shrug*

In the not-so-far-away future, I’ll look at upgrading WordPress to 1.5. This seems harmless enough, but will change the look/skin of the site, and I want to get that figured out first. Plus, I think a 1.5 patch level release is coming soon, so I might just wait for that.

Now, to do something more exciting on a Saturday night. I think I’ll finish watching basketball and throw in a moovie.