A waste of bits and bandwidth

What a lovely long weekend this has turned out to be. Cool and wet, just like a good beer. According to the Weather Network, no rain is expected. As I look out my window, I can’t see the North Shore due to the clouds and rain. My eyes must decieve me as everything on the internet is true…

I’ve also noted that people seem to think that my blog is still at the root domain. It’s not. My plan was to write about cool software there and blog here. I figured that doing so would force me to learn about the software but my writing leaves something to be desired.

I need to clean it up and get to the point sooner so that the article isn’t so long and rambling. I guess that will come in time but for now, it blows. I broke my initial rule of writing a number of entries and and queuing them up so I had a buffer. No matter, no one is reading them anyway and the handful that are, don’t understand them.

And so it goes…

Midbach has done a hostile takeover and now runs this blog.

As it turned out, I wasn’t dark for very long. I decided to keep the blog alive but with a sub-domain and a new CMS. WordPress is a thing of beauty; all PHP, open source, a tiny footprint and less than 5 minutes to install and configure.

Part of the reason was I was trying to merge a new design into the MT template. What a freakin’ nightmare that was. MT just doesn’t have a lot of flexibility when it comes to advanced layouts. I spent an entire day last weekend trying to merge all the code and I wasn’t getting anywhere. Maybe I could have gotten it to work but it was just too frustrating to continue. WP seems pretty easy; everything is specified in a simple PHP file and it’s pretty easy to sort out.

So I’ve decided not to tell any of you meatheads about this. I’m not sure why; I guess I want some time to get used to WP. I’m sure it won’t take long to figure it out. In any event, most have stats and will start to see traffic coming from here.

So, here we go with version 7. Who knows how long it’ll continue. Who knows how long anything will continue…