fashionably nerdy

it's official.  i am the isht.  

Lately, I've been reflecting a lot on the fact that I have been blogging since you had to explain to people what a blog was.  People thought it was weird that my personal website had some pictures and "a whole lot of writing".  That I would put my personal business, thoughts, feelings and emotions out there for billions of unseen and unknown people to read was hard for my family and friends to understand.  That they sometimes found themselves mused about was even more disturbing.  Who reads that stuff anyway?  Now blogging is so mainstream, there is even a profession on the Sims 2 to be a blogger.  

I'm not kidding.

I'm proud to have been around before it was so "cool".  It makes me appreciate it even more when new tools come out or someone comes up with a rad plugin for Movable Type.  I can remember my first installation of Movable Type way back when, and how much fun I had exploring its capabilities.

Yes, this was just an excuse for me to make another Movable Type commercial.

Actually, a 6A commercial in general.  Because I love me some Vox too.

That is why you are able to view this blog both here and on Vox.  I update the Vox blog entirely from within Movable Type, because it is so easy with the plugin Anil made.  There is also a plugin that allows you to update a Livejournal as well.

Get on the bandwagon people.  Movable Type 4 is that isht.

The more I play with it, the more I am amazed.  I think I will start writing about the little discoveries I'm making along the way.

I can show you better than I can tell you.

i would like to take a moment to express how geeked i am that i can update my now numerous vox blogs from within the movable type system.  that means i have a copy of each post saved on both the 6A servers as well as my own servers as well.  sure, i could save a copy of each post in notepad before i write it, but i stopped doing that years ago, and this is so much groovier.

movable type.  it's fashionable and nerdy.

As I've gotten older, everyone I know has become less and less forthcoming with the details of their lives.  Situations get complicated, relationships and other personal details get sticky, and we're not as likely to share these layers of our experience as we were when things were simple.  I imagine it like a bedsheet falling slowly from a clothesline: as the sheet falls into the grass, the fabric sinks into a wrinkled pile, and you can't see the whole thing anymore.

--alison headley

i lament personal blogging in the same manner.

feeling productive
completed today's main goal
ready to do more