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Wow, another great WordPress characteristic– publishing entries from ecto to WordPress seems almost instantaneous! Previously, clicking “Publish” to MovableType was a minute or more of grinding as MT had to not only put content in the database, but crank through and republish indexes, entry pages, category pages, etc. With WordPress is just goes into the [...]

Good writing. Personal viewpoints. That’s what its all about. Tom Caotes’ A Horseless Carriage provides a well written, personal perspective on the evolution of weblogs, but he writes not strictly about the history, and more on a broader definition
This means that whatever you’re planning to use weblogs for, then you’ll fid them most naturally useful [...]

Ok, chipping away more at the WP templates. One of my blog software critcisms is the notion that an “archive” listing is just a bunch of the posts in a category or date range all glued together (see “All Your Archives Are Wrong”).
To be honest, I should poke more through the WordPress docs and better [...]

My tirade of being an iPodless podcaster are no more!

That’s correct, pod fans, I have a new iPod Shuffle, courtesy of my Mom in Florida as a birthday gift– I had put it on my list of “wishes”, so in her words:
I don’t know what it is or what it does, but the nice young [...]

Well, humph, Apple, is well, updating in a rather… um… “Redmondian” way. The OS X 10.3.9 update has done a few things to Safari (I still cannot find the supposed HTML editor, but viewing RSS feed URLs looks even worse in the browser window).
But here is a real kicker. While updating my new blog feed [...]

I just wrote a itty bitty PHP script to deal with my 800+ imported MovableType posts- as far as my newbie eyes could see, the Permalink URLs contstructed from these were producing some 3 mile URLs because the format I used based on the post name.
On new WP entries, I have options to create a [...]

I feel like a gleeful, wet by the ears, just discovered blog software newbie. On one hand I hate starting over, giving up a system I knew insanely well, into a place where I am operating with 12 thumbs.
Last night I jumped too quickly into the Theme land, so as WordPress is so easy to [...]

Wow. What can I write but a big, stinkin’ WOW.
I literally spent the advertised 5 minutes to install WordPress. I especially liked the install steps:
Where you expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint you
Using the instructions in the WordPress Codex, I was able to so easily import 867 MovableType entries, I thought it could not be [...]

I’ve been seeing references to something called “Web 2.0″ — was there some sort of Internet upgrade while I was sleeping? Am I out of date? (Note for new readers- this is sarcasm) I see folks are aiming to define it precisely.
While I accept, support, participate in the notion that web content as we use/see [...]

I just added a new feature to this blog’s templates, likely the last tweak I will do as I am rather dead set on moving soon to WordPress (especially after seeing D’Arcy’s demo of the flickr gallery plugin).
The new feature is a link along the front page and archive pages (and individual entries) where the [...]