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I was experimenting with the Jots.com bookmark and publish to weblog API, but as duly noted in comments by Will and James, it was turning my blog reading into more of a linkatorium:
I’d rather get it by subbing your Jots feed rather than your blog feed.
True, so I am shutting of the publishing of “Today’s [...]

I’ve not had nearly the desired time to monkey around in WordPress (hence the near stock template), but I am hoping over the more slow time of summer to slowly add and tinker and perhaps break. I am still trying to get my mind around the template/tag structure, which is fairly sensible.
What I’d really like [...]

Just short of 3 weeks converted from my old MovableType blog to this new one running WordPress, and I got my first slice of comment spam. Ewwww, it is pretty smelly, but it just slide easily off the moderation queue into the dung heap.
I’ve waited to implement more WP anti-spam plugins, waiting to see how [...]

As part of the blog transition I took a spin at creating a new tool that would create a WordPress search bookmarklet, more or less a quick re-do of the one I originally created for MovableType.
It is even easier to construct for WordPress, as all you need to know is the base URL for the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’m mulling over what many other quicker, maybe wiser, colleagues have done, and migrate my blog software from MovableType 2.661 to WordPress 1.5. It’s not critical, not urgent, but I feel it nagging at me. Last week I dumped a chunk of time trying to get all the perl pieces in place to use the [...]