Category: Assorted Bob

Categories
Art Bob Assorted Bob Bad Bob Boobtube Bob Books Dog Bob HDR Bob Media Bob Movie Bob Music Bob Paddle Bob Peru Bob Prankster Bob Radiant Bob Sailor Bob Sitcom Christmas Techno Bob Top Bob Transcendental Bob Travel Bob Tribute Bob Uncategorized Web Bob Zombie Bob

Suffering the Benz Top Posts

When I migrated from Movable Type to WordPress, I realized there’s a lot of crap on here. More than 600 posts over the past seven years. Someone beaming in from the Google Transporter would be hard pressed to figure out what’s going on here. So I’ve pulled together my favorite posts in a single category that I’ve labeled Top Bob.

Here they are.

Categories
Uncategorized

New feed location: http://www.opposable-thumbs.com/?feed=rss2

Categories
Assorted Bob Web Bob

Change is good … I think

If you checked in this weekend, you probably noticed more than a bit of turbulence here. My Movable Type blog got bunked up, mostly through my own doing, and rather than try to unravel it I decided to make a fresh start. I was a full release behind on Movable Type, so first I tried upgrading. Bad idea. I had multiple issues, most of which focused on the admin. The javascript in there wasn’t working right and I just wasn’t willing to try to figure out what was wrong. The new templating system in MT 4.23 also left me completely befuddled. So I took the fresh start to another level.

When I set up a Word Press blog for Maroon Ventures, I was incredibly impressed with how easy it was to install, modify and manage. So I switched to Word Press and so far I have no regrets.

A few things to be aware of:

  • I’ve turned the main page of Opposable-Thumbs into the main page of my blog. So now going to http://www.opposable-thumbs.com/ takes you straight to the blog instead of the static HTML page/links that used to be there.
  • I redirected everything from the old blog to the opposable-thumbs.com page. I didn’t bother to try to connect the old URLs to the new ones. I don’t think enough people read or bookmark items in this blog to make that worthwhile. If you’re looking for something specific, give me a shout and I’ll help you track it down. I did import all the entries from the MT blog into this one (612 of them dating back to 2002), so everything should be here, albeit with new URLs.
  • I’ve reversed the redirect. It was having some unintended effects since I have image links and other stuff in there. I’ll need to create a more surgical redirect when I get time …
  • I haven’t settled for sure on a theme yet, so the look and feel might change as my whims change.
  • Still a lot of nits to pick. If you spot one, please shoot me a note. I’ll link all the static stuff from the old site in here somewhere, but I doubt I’ll bother with switching the design to whatever theme I settle on …