A while ago I screwed up and had to scrap my old posts and then I thought that was kind of a waste so I made a compromise version so that the old posts would still be online somewhere. The reason it was so hard to get the data out was completely my fault. Anyway it just took time to get it all moved over. Not all the links works and not all the videos and images works.
While working through all the old posts some of my favorites are this post of me at the dentist. There are also post like this one where I ran over a cat and then drew a picture. The history of this site now go all the way back to the first posts I ever did.
Fat rock is still what does it for me in my times of need.
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February 1, 2009 • 9:59 am
Over the last few years I have tried coding my own blog, then WordPress, then Textpattern, then Drupal, then Movable Type. Coding my own was hard. I used WordPress for the longest amount of time but never really thought it was that special. Textpattern was clean and simple but I wanted something full of features. When I moved to Drupal I thought I had really found something amazing. It can do so much, pretty much anything. I loved the theme song and that it had a theme song. I started customizing the install and adding all sorts of modules to make it do everything that I wanted it to do and it was so awesome. The problem I had when I moved from WordPress originally to cleaner or more powerful solutions was that I didn’t feel like posting as much stuff. It might have been harder because it was so powerful or maybe it felt a little bit more grown up so I wasn’t as interested in posting simple stuff. I tried to fix that by moving to Movable Type.
Movable Type is very clean and super fast loading which is nice but I had the same problem that I was less interested in posting stuff. I have looked at the menus and I am not sure what is different but it still feels like posting stuff is just enough out of the way that I wasn’t interested in getting stuff up.
6 years ago from last Tuesday, in the comments for this post WordPress was created and since that is what I had the most success with I thought I would try going back. For all the reasons I switched from WordPress (nothing special, not powerful enough, too slow) those have kind of gone away. It is still a little ordindary, still not the most poweful and still kind of slow but it is and has been improving steadily for the last few yeas. If there is something in another blog publishing tool or CMS that is good enough to switch for, it will end up being in WordPress soon enough anyway. At least that is what I am starting to learn.
As I sit here at Dan’s house working on his laptop and getting his camera ready to go for Santa Fe I just wanted to get back online to my account and finish this post because it is easier and more engaging than the software I had used before. Because this tool (WordPress) is built for blogging that is what it tries to do best. I set up my mobile posting through Flickr like it used to be. I haven’t even thought about just putting one picture up in a long time. It was probably because I got hit in the head so hard.
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