December 2007 Archives

I've been meaning to change my blogging habits for a long time. The kids are growing up so fast, and writing down their exploits daily (along with taking pictures) seems like a good way to hold onto some of those memories. In order to get there though I needed to clear away some of the obstacles : the Movable Type software was aging; the disk was full; and handling images was just too hard. I mean it's easy enough to resize them, easy enough to upload them; easy enough to cut out thumbnails; and easy enough to write a link tag. But doing each of those easy things over and over again screams out for automation - and it just takes too much time for a daily task. I need the tools to get out of the way.

So, I took the time today to upgrade the software (boy, MT4 still has a lot of rough edges : the upgrade broke all the blogs even without touching the templates or stylesheets, until I exported and reimported them again - which is now a routine step with MT upgrades), and found a nice blogging client software (ecto) that does the image resizing automatically. Everybody's blogs are upgraded (some of you have a new look - hope you like it, but you can change it) and I also added one for Barb as a Xmas present.

So now I have no excuses. Writing skills are a bit rusty, and I'm still pretty inhibited about blathering on every day, but I'm going to try. Here's a picture just in case the witing gets really boring : me as a Jedi with Batman and Dick Grayson (that's Robin's mild mannered alter ego, aka Elijah, as he's out of costume) on Halloween.

Nancy and Elijah. Looks like they're each on different drugs.

Rocky the Dog and Finn get ready to go on their Christmas Eve walk through Wallingford to look at houses with decorations. Rocky sounded like Santa Claus coming down the lane.

Let's see how this works.