Until just now, I never realized that the Drupal Search Module only appeared if I was logged in. I ticked some extra boxes under access control and, now, the search box appears when I'm not logged in as well.

After a long hiatus, I have returned to Assorted Wisdom to continue playing with technology. Some immediate changes:

• In the time since my last post, YouTube took removed a video I had embedded so I removed the post about it.
• I installed a Wordpress blog. I am curious how it compares to Drupal and MovableType. So the blog has use, I will right a post for every bottle of wine I drink this year. Or, at least, that is the plan.

UPDATE: I just fixed the URL for the wordpress blog.

Yesterday, I tried to set up an Amazon astore and embed the store into the site. Setting up the store was a simple four step process which required no programming knowledge.

You can see my efforts here.

Unfortunately, the functionality seems to be limited to a fixed width so it failed to embed elegantly into my drupal template as you can see here:

That image was taken on a widescreen laptop. On my other laptop, the integration looks even worse. At some point, I will explore using widgets to integrate Amazon more seamlessly into the site but I was disappointed with the final outcome of my experiment.

The Drupal search module has started to return results on the site. A little research has revealed that the the search module only re-indexes the site as a cron job. When I first installed the module, I should have immediately run the indexing task to get the search functionality working.

I just implemented the Drupal Search Module into the right-hand navigation of the site to make it easier to find old posts. So far, the search has failed to return any results for any search so I'm somewhat underwhelmed. Tomorrow, I might spend some time looking for other search tools to integrate or troubleshooting the Drupal search module.

In a previous post, I put the favicon in a new place in Drupal and deleted all of the other favicon files I had in place.

The update isn't positive. I am still getting 404 errors on the favicon file but the missing file location has moved now from /favicon.ico to /files/favicon.ico. I suspect that one of the files I deleted is needed.

So, now, I have put the favicon file in /files directory and I will wait to see if I keep getting errors.

For some reason, drupal will no longer allow me to upload files when I create content. The img tag still works but I can't put the file in place with drupal. Weird.

For some reason, my ISP "upgraded" me to PHP5 again on this site and I experienced the same session problems as before. I have changed the configuration back to PHP4 and everything is happy again.

I might need to call the ISP to ensure that the configuration stays stable.

While adding Google Analytics to the site, I started to experience a strange problem where Drupal kept losing my sessions. I could login to Drupal but, as soon as I would click on anything, Drupal would lose my session and ask me to login again. The removal of the Google Analytics javascript tag did not resolve the problem.

I started to panic.

Installed the drupal module for a calendar archive - Now installed in the right-hand navigation on the site. I am still only playing with the core modules in Drupal but I am starting to need to look at other modules or documentation on how to add some interesting pages that I would like to see.

I would like to get category pages which display all the sub-categories in the hierarchical category structure. That's a challenge for another day.