BlogVanity: May 2006 Archives

I feel like I am finally getting some things accomplished around here. I don't know if it was school this past semester, the campaign, or what, because I think that I am finally coming to grips with actually having both a lot of work to do and a life, too! I cannot remember the last time that I actually put in more than one entry in a week, let alone a day (I know, you're all bored already...). It may just be that the weather is getting nicer and that I can actually sleep for more than two hours a night. Anyway, I am very pleased so far with moving back to MT. I have been watching the logs and the major spiders are running rampant at the moment. Yahoo! has jsut about finished roaming through the whole new file structure. Google is doing it much more efficiently, a few pages at a time. One thing I did find during the conversion process was that WP has no export feature. So, I did a search and found one that someone had written. It had to be tweaked a bit to work on the latest version of WP. It also did not handle comments perfectly. I ended up without about 200 blank anonymous comments. The good thing was that I simply went into MT after importing and basically killed them all off in about 3 minutes, rather painlessly. That brings up another good feature of MT - most if not all of the selection menu-type displays can be easily optioned to show 10, 20, or all of the entries at once, something lacking in most of WP. Sure, I could have gone in and tweaked. My issue is that in the case of blogging software, I want to use it for the most part, not mod it. The analog I like to think of is comparing blogging software to a pencil. To write with it all I have to do is occasionally sharpen it. I always felt that when blogging with WP, I had to take all the wood off the pencil, mine my own graphite, form it into a cylinder, cut down a tree, whittle a cylinder, and put the lead inside of it. Sorry, I have better things to program - my blogging software is just a tool to edit, archive, and present my journal. Sure, I like the toys you can sprinkle through it, but that is not the reason I blog. Back to cooking dinner (wow!) - have to get it done early since Monday night is drill night!