Junk & stuff
Some various junk & stuff…
- Archive pruning - the pruning of the Territorial Archive is done. I winnowed things down from about 950 posts to 515, and from about 600 comments down to 275. The comments were deleted as a function of the posts that I deleted. The posts were more purposeful, as I got rid of some that just didn’t make sense anymore, some that pointed to blogs that are no longer available, and others that I just didn’t think warranted keeping around for “historical” reasons. Plus, it helped make my database quite a bit smaller & more manageable…
- Tagging - all of the remaining posts are now fully tagged. It might not provide all that much actual value, but it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something. And it can give a potentially interesting view of just what I’ve been writing about over the past three years.
- Blogging software - despite how much I seem to want to stop using WordPress, I just can’t seem to ever make it happen. I was even to the point where I was willing to write-off all of my old posts & not worry about trying to get them imported into a/the new blogging system. There’s a part of me that’s just tired of WordPress, and wants to try something new. That part, however, is quickly overwhelmed by the part of me that just likes to keep things simple, understandable, and useful. WordPress, for all it’s faults, is an amazing combination of easy & robust. Plus, I know it & how it works, and there’s something to be said for the comfort that comes from the inertia of the installed base. I’ve even gone ahead and installed the latest version of WordPress - 2.3. I can’t say that I won’t feel the wanderlust again anytime soon, ’cause I know that I will. I’ll check out what’s going on out there with all the other blogging/cms apps. And someday there might even be one that gets me to switch.
I was going to write more, but I think that I’ll stop there. For now.
-ghp
Insert profundity here
Contrary to the paucity of posting, I’ve actually had quite a bit going on of late. At least inside my head. The problem, it would seem, is that I’ve not yet gotten to the point where I’m comfortable writing about it.
Writing about things theological, while something I’d like to do, continues to be difficult because I would feel like a bit of a hypocrite. Not because I’m having doubts or anything like that, mind you, but more because I’m feeling quite burdened by the Law and my inability to measure up to it. At some point, though, I’m sure that I’ll be ready to write about some of the battles & developments that I’ve found so fatiguing, especially in the congregation. Suffice it to say that the Old Adam makes it tough to rest in the Gospel comfort that is found that the foot of the Cross…
Writing about things TV/realitytv is a bit slow because the new Fall season is about to begin. The Summer shows (The Closer, Eureka, etc…) are coming to a close, and I’ve been focusing more on enjoying, rather than analyzing, them.
Writing about things technology-related just hasn’t been grabbing me either. My new wireless/bluetooth Mac keyboard is very, very cool. But it’s more fun to write on than it is to write about…
Writing about things work-related would be helpful, at least to my psyche, but I’m not sure it’d be the most prudent thing for me to do. I’ve got quite a bit on the front-burner, so to speak, in this area, but it’s also the one that I’m most worried about, because I’d hate for being (too) open about some things to come back & bite me, IYKWIM…
On the blogging front, I’m smack in the middle of a major pruning of the Territorial Archives. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while, and have just gotten around to it. I was almost to 1000 posts, and I just had the nagging suspicion that there was way too much junk in the archives. I also wanted to get everything properly tagged. It’s also looking like this housecleaning will serve as a prelude to a change away from Wordpress and over to Movable Type 4. I haven’t yet fully/irrevocably decided to change, but it’s looking very attractive to me, as MT4 has some really nice things going for it in the recently released new version (and WP is just striking me as something that just ain’t what it once was…).
-ghp
Major renovation continues
The major renovation continues…
The Good:
- WordPress 2.2.1 is installed
- I’ve got a new cruft-free database running, as all the old postings imported nicely
- The plugin purge is largely done and was relatively pain-free
- Mint (my main stat tracking tool) has been successfully reinstalled, and this time pointed to its own database so that I don’t keep losing archival stats data
- I’ve been largely successful in keeping things plain/simple enough on the back-end, such that I don’t have to do much tweaking of the themes that I’m testing out
- Some nifty AJAX-y stuff (comment previews & ability to edit comments up to 15 minutes after you submit them) is in place & working nicely for y’all who want to stop by & leave comments
The Bad:
- I still need to weed through & prune down my archival postings
- I will need to re-tag every posting that I end up keeping
- I need to settle on a final template design, although I do kind of like the Mac/Aqua-ish one that is in place at the moment that I write this (Wed, 6/27 @ 7:55pm CDT)
- Most likely a bunch of other little stuff that I’m just not thinking of right at this moment
Any & all comments, recommendations, or other stuff like that are welcomed.
-ghp
Major renovation work begun
I’ve just begun a rather significant reworking of this blog. Inertia, coupled with some base technical functionality, has moved me to stay with Wordpress; however, I’ve done a clean (re)install of version 2.2.1, including importing my posts & your comments into a new database instance. I’m hoping that this will help me to more easily rid the archives of a whole bunch of cruft & junk, particularly when I couple it with a revisiting of all my old postings so that I can better winnow out the unnecessary postings and properly tag what’s left. I’m also doing what I plan on being a ruthless evaluation of the plugins that I have installed, along with a graphical redesign that will streamline the look & feel of the blog for you hardy souls who actually visit the site. I’m going for a more minimalist design, which will hopefully yield quicker loading times as well as more pleasant & direct interactions with the site. I plan on getting this done as quickly as I can, but please don’t hold it against me (or stop visiting/reading!) if it takes a longer than a couple of days. Vielen Dank! -ghp
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