Misc.: December 2007 Archives
I have been using Movable Type blogging software for nearly four years now, the whole of the life of this particular blog. And early on, I was amazed at how I was able to get such a powerful and elegant bit of software for nearly nothing. About a little over a year ago, the difficulties dealing with the templates and making this thing look like I wanted it to were just taking way more time than was reasonable. Plus, the tsunami of comment spam that I had to deal with didn't have any simple solution with MT. I thought each successive version upgrade would be a magic bullet. I tried using something else when I launched Gallery Wire using Word Press, a free and open source blogging tool. Wow. It was just what I was looking for: much simpler, much faster, much more usable. (I've also been using Tumbler for my work-related blog, Designing Innovations. It's also a pleasure to use, for a completely different set of reasons.)
Movable Type 4 was released a few months ago, and I gave it one last try. At first, I was pretty impressed, but the more I used it, the more aggravated I become. The last straw is that insane "Photos" module you see to the right. I can't figure out how to shut it off and the template structure of MT has gotten so Byzantine I just figure it's simpler to throw the whole thing out and start over with Word Press. So I have.
You can see the new, updated Gallery Hopper for a week or so at http://www.walkernewyork.com/galleryhopper/. If you have any suggestions or questions, leave a comment here. I'll be switching over to the new installation in the first week of 2008.
Movable Type 4 was released a few months ago, and I gave it one last try. At first, I was pretty impressed, but the more I used it, the more aggravated I become. The last straw is that insane "Photos" module you see to the right. I can't figure out how to shut it off and the template structure of MT has gotten so Byzantine I just figure it's simpler to throw the whole thing out and start over with Word Press. So I have.
You can see the new, updated Gallery Hopper for a week or so at http://www.walkernewyork.com/galleryhopper/. If you have any suggestions or questions, leave a comment here. I'll be switching over to the new installation in the first week of 2008.
I shy away from blogs that mix politics with their cultural commentary, so it's slightly hypocritical for me to make this particular post. But with so much at stake again, that surely would be "a foolish consistency".
Happy to see that today Joe Leiberman has endorsed John McCain for president. "On all the issues, you're never going to do anything about them unless you have a leader who can break through the partisan gridlock," Lieberman said. "The status quo in Washington is not working." Of all the alternate histories that play in my head, none is more powerful than the thought of what a different world we'd live in if it was President McCain on Sept 11 instead of President Bush.
Despite not being affiliated with a party as long as I've lived in NY, I have been a long-time McCain supporter, pushing for him in the 2000 nomination and voting for him as a write-in candidate in 2004. (That was an interesting experience, requiring members of both parties to join me in the booth to explain the procedure to ensure that one or the other didn't give me false instructions!)
Happy to see that today Joe Leiberman has endorsed John McCain for president. "On all the issues, you're never going to do anything about them unless you have a leader who can break through the partisan gridlock," Lieberman said. "The status quo in Washington is not working." Of all the alternate histories that play in my head, none is more powerful than the thought of what a different world we'd live in if it was President McCain on Sept 11 instead of President Bush.
Despite not being affiliated with a party as long as I've lived in NY, I have been a long-time McCain supporter, pushing for him in the 2000 nomination and voting for him as a write-in candidate in 2004. (That was an interesting experience, requiring members of both parties to join me in the booth to explain the procedure to ensure that one or the other didn't give me false instructions!)
