blivet.com

It’s bloooggg madness!!! I’ve pushed the shiny red button! It’s a brand new “Powered by WordPress” site here with new a new look and feel to go along with all that new plumbing. (And, in case it sucks, it’s just in time for April Fools so I can take it all back.)

Here’s a few things that are different:

• You can search the blog! Who needs categories with power like that? Go ahead! Search for “Angel” and read all my pithy commentary on — what should be — everyone’s favorite television program.
• A handy, tastefully-colored, three-column layout and a default font that’s not nine times the size of God make it easy on the browser and the eyes. I freely admit I stole ideas from the Textpattern site and its templates.
• An Atom feed is now available along with my trusty ole RSS, which is still in version 2 format. If you subscribe to the site in a newsreader, no doubt every article will appear updated due to subtle changes in formatting. Sorry about that.
• Only 10 posts are shown on the front page and included in the feeds. I use to bore people with 15. Who knows, I may reduce this to only five if the yawning gets out of hand.
• Unfortunately there’s no longer any “preview” of comments. This is sadly a feature missing in WordPress. But I may just hack it in soon. In the meantime, use the Textile humane web text generator to check your formatting.

But the biggest change is the engine. Movable Type is dead. Long live WordPress. At least for today. We’ll see what happens when Ben and Mena finally roll out 3.0. I can be tempted by more toys. Easily. Then again, WordPress 1.2 may have arrived from Matt and the gang before then. Or an even better version of Textpattern. Or I might just write my own personal content management system. You never know.

Anyway, let me know what you think. God-willing it all works correctly with my hacks and band-aids. I would sure hate to pull the plug after all this work.