I locked myself out of my blog earlier today -- through a boneheaded move on my part, I managed to delete the user "Kevin" from happybeagle.com's Movable Type system. After adding a new Kevin-user, I found that I still couldn't edit this blog, because the old Kevin-user was both the creator of the blog and the only user with permission to access it.
After using vi (the one true editor) to directly edit Movable Type's database files, along with some help from this handy Perl script, I was able to set things back to normal. Brought me right back to my college days as a UNIX bigot, I'll tell you ...
Posted by Kevin at February 14, 2004 08:03 PMHi Kevin, Shelby, and Scout-Happy Valentine's Day! I got your postcard. It sounds like a great place to visit. Uncle Greg is supposed to take us fishing on Monday,a school holiday. My first batch of rocks will come out of the tumbler in a day or so. I can't wait to see what they look like! Talk to you again soon.
Love,
Zach