So, first the computer:

I needed to move the boot drive from the old to new drive. To do this I got
Norton Ghost. I'm not in the business of plugging programs here but this one worked as advertised -- it can make a "virtual" boot partition, boot off that into DOS and do its stuff, meaning you don't even need a boot disk.

Trouble is, Ghost said it couldn't do its stuff because the C drive was too fragmented. So I went to defrag it with the Win2k tools, but it didn't have enough free space, so I had to move a lot of files.

Then defrag - on a 20 GB NTFS drive this takes forever, which probably ended up being about 2 hours or so, on a Pentium II 400mhz system. Maybe some other defraggers are faster.

After that, Ghost was pretty simple. After checked to see that the machine was OK, I moved the hard drive cable over to the new drive, making it the primary, and powered on. Hot damn, it works.

While waiting for the file moves and defrag stuff, I started playing with this site. This was spurred by seeing one of those "validated" tags.

So I played with tags on the simple page a while, and actually got it to have a clean bill of health. Probably won't be visible in Netscape 4.0 any more, but it actually looks pretty much the same in IE, Mozilla and Opera using CSS. Maybe there is hope for standards after all.

The MT upgrade was pretty simple, once I read the instructions -- basically just uploading some new files and running one cgi script.

But it doesn't look like the MT page is going to validate for a while. I played with that a little - fixing some missing tags - but something about the basic XML structure of the page pissed off the validator.

Something for another cold winter day.

So my day was spent playing with computers, with one nice interlude sitting by the fire with my human and cat roomies. Never left the house. Not a bad deal at all.