[Historical note: there was an immense gap of over eight months between entries.]

I’ll be honest: the best way to motivate myself to actually finish something is to be publicly humiliated by its incompleteness. So here I am, urged to wrap up the migration and styling of this little blog from Movable Type to glorious WordPress. Now, with just some CSS stuff to finish, I can get back to writing about cute sheep or the quality of tofu in Oakland (which is excellent).

Check out that sweet larger, new main column and please allow some time for the entries to work seamlessly with the slightly rearranged layout. Everything will be back to normal in no time (i.e. 3 weeks) and I can work on my summer plans that include not learning about math and/or JavaScript.

P.S. Sorry about any dead ends and broken images!

I’m sorry MT 4.x. I know we’ve had our problems over the past years, mainly having to do with the upgrade and eventual reinstall headaches you caused and that JavaScript error on my homepage I can’t seem to get rid of. (note: I believe this to be a Reinvigorate error. My apologies to MT. –RG)

We had some really great times! You easily managed two blogs on one page and helped me grow from a boy to a man. I will never forget you and I’m having some guilt cramps from my lack of loyalty to you. But then I remember how I would search your documentation and hit a dead link and feel like throwing my monitor through a window.

I’m rebuilding this little blog as WordPress-powered, as the 2.5 version is pretty smooth and sweet. Since this will happen during my non-work, non-wife, non-TV time, it might take a year. This whole thing needs an overhaul anyway, instead of periodic CSS patching. Oh, how I added padding to things with set widths when I was just a boy! And those ordered lists are terrible!!

However, I have to say MT’s ability to have multiple blogs seamlessly appear on one page is hard to beat. I have yet to crack that code with WP. I guess I’m having trouble saying "Goodbye". But WP seems to be a lot faster and I don’t have to rebuild anything to publish template changes.

And now the tears start.

Please pardon some of the unfinished nooks and crannies of the site while I continue to smooth out the rebuild, slight re-org, and general tidying up after I started anew after a previous and rough upgrade from Movable Type 3.x to 4.x.

I wanted to put up the incomplete and work-in-progress site now, rather than later, so that I would be forced to finish it now…rather than later. Please excuse the occasional flash of unstyled/default content.