Our long strange trip begins today

We leave on our big trip down to NH, CT, NY, CT, NY, CT, NH (in that order). Returning to home on 1/4.

I will be online alot this trip, last year I played ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of cable modems and installed wireless routers and cable modems at just about every house we visit on our family trips, and for my mothers house in NY I’m bringing our Airport Base Station so I’ll be all set. Hopefully i’ll have some time to write some more stuff in here, now that I’m mirrored on Livejournal and have more people actually reading my ramblings. (or at least now I can imagine this as being more possible)

Since I’m using this journal as a place to store documents, I’m going to include our Housesitting/Dog & Cat feeding instructions I always mail out to the kind folks we sucker into caring for our animals & home when we are out. Real interesting reading, don’t miss it 🙂

In case anyone is curious here is our crew; Seeger, Goblin, Hurricane, Finnegan, and Oberon:

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Livejournal & Moveable Type

Ok so all my friends who ‘blog’ pretty much use livejournal, but I hate relying on external servers to do my work, so I’m stuck. Do I stay on my high horse and do all my stuff on my personal site, requiring my livejournal friends to link to my URL when they reference me, or do I drop this and move over there.

Or… Do I work on finding a way to synchronize the two. Apparently, I’m not the first person to think of this, I found “MovableType to LiveJournal Crossposting Plugin” which claims to do everything I’d want. Last night I downloaded and installed it along with the various pieces it required to run.

It was a little vague on where to put the <$MTLJCrosspost user="username" pass="hashedpassword" $> part. It says it should go in your archive template, but which ? And where exactly? So i’m experimenting with that right now.

I think it’s all in place now, this is a test run.

Hello world?
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