I know you were on the edge of your seats: all the old content is migrated (by hand), I even got the right timestamps on the comments. I really like the clean look and feel. Compare it to the old stuff – that state-of-the-art-circa-1994 look is no more.

The WordPress learning curve wasn’t too bad and I’ve became obsessed with making things look “right” over the past couple days. I was surprised with how much fun it was; I’m feeling a load of nerd pride for hacking on the default theme to make it my own without knowing a damn thing about style-sheets and php going in. It’s reassuring to know that part of me that could read, write and debug code is still around. I just didn’t want use a standard template – that inexplicably felt like a cop out to me. This is especially ironic given that even now when I feel independently differentiated from the WordPress herd I’m still leveraging like 99.9% of the code untouched. Still annoying: the site seems slower and I’m not sure why. Anyway, leave a comment and let me know what you think.

The blue header was Cynthia’s suggestion – she said navy blue was a “Pat color”. “Blog-like substance” popped into my head during the setup and I was compelled to use it in the tag line. I may experiment with some entries that are not related to new pics in the gallery or site maintenance . . . the wordpress backend makes posting even easier then on Cutenews. The real question is not one of ease of use or even motivation, it’s how often I have something worthwhile to say to everyone/no one. With pioneering peers like Dave, who have >800 quality posts in less than three years, the bar is high in this corner of the internets.

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