It appears that whenever we receive a trackback the site rebuilds itself. The problem: when it rebuilds it ignores all entries after the one titled "mission accomplished". I have to go in and manually rebuild the site in order to get newer posts (like this one) to show up.

It's pretty irritating, and I have no idea how to fix it. Since we get a lot of trackback spam, it's a real problem. If anyone knows the answer to this issue, please feel free to share it with the rest of the class.

UPDATE: Okay, I just successfully sent a test-trackback from a dummy blog without any entries disappearing. Time to come up with a new theory for why this is happening.

UPDATE 2: New theory. I had renamed our trackback scripts from the Movable Type defaults in an effort to curb spam. As a result, those scripts didn't get overwritten when I upgraded to MT 3.2. I'm thinking that comment spammers were still hitting those renamed scripts via Google's cache of the site. Those old scripts were triggering rebuilds using old code and, more importantly, the old database. Which means that only data added to the site prior to the switch to MySQL was showing up. Make sense? No? Well, at least it's extremely boring. But on the off chance that someone else has the same problem, let me suggest you rename or delete those old scripts. Hopefully this will take care of the problem. I could be completely wrong, though, and this post may disappear again. So, uh, if you can't read this post, you should probably ignore its contents.

most of you probably already know about this site, but i just can't express my love enough for kayak.com. it's certainly the best and snazziest site i've found for looking up cheap airfare. what it is is basically a compendium of airfares from all the sites - you just search your point of departure, destination and date, and it'll list the best prices from across the web. its buzz feature, which incorporates google maps, like anything cool these days does, is also kinda neat.

With apologies to Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova and Catherine, I present the hottest, uh, " tennis" player ever. All I can say is: God bless ESPN2. I thought that the 3AM Magic: The Gathering tournament coverage I witnessed in middle school could not be topped. I was very, very wrong.

Also: fr1st post (among myself, Charles and Kriston). That means I get dibs, right?

check out this new york mag column on female sex columnists in new york city. unsurprisingly, everybody's favorite slutty d.c. blogger, jessica cutler, is featured. she comes off as absolutely crazy in the interview. but you know what? she's also the only interesting one.