You’ve now entered the world of you tube home videos in HD. . . don’t get your hopes up, these aren’t going to impress you with plot and special effects.

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Those of you who check this blog much more frequently than I post to it may have noticed an outage – my fault since, amateur webmaster that I am, I forgot that I hadn’t ever transferred my registrar to my new web host.  I was paid up on one, but not the other; repeated e-mails warning of account expiration that I thought were spam and ignored were in fact legitimate.  Anyway, it’s now straightened out.

In other news, I plan to use this site to document the imminent birth of our daughter in real time.  I’ve installed a new WordPress plugin that should simulcast the updates on Facebook as well.  Stay tuned!

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You want to make bean dip in Taiwan?  Need some canned chill?  Well, the pride of Eden Prarie has made it’s way to the Wellcome (we’re thinking of you Paul and Rachel).

Oh, also I changed the blog theme.  I may bring the old one back, but I can’t figure out how to manipulate the style sheet to make it look better on wide screens.

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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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I’m migrating to WordPress, the photo gallery is still up. Stay tuned . . .

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