Matt Van Stone

I am the worst binge blogger evar. Lets see… 9 post over a 3 or 4 day span in JANUARY. And nothing until now… nice.

Moved from Movable Type to Wordpress 2.1.2 Blogging Platform

Well I finally moved this site from Movable Type to Wordpress 2.1.2. As you can see it has a similar format, but completely different theme. I have been wanting to do something with that background pattern for a long time and I’m pretty happy with what I have mocked up. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. Most of the work went into stylizing this very popular theme I downloaded. I was able to import my posts and comments from the old site very easily, and I updated my .htaccess file so that all of the addresses for the old site are properly redirected to the new page.

If there are some things that don’t look quite right let me know so I can fix them up. I had to edit a few of the posts because their format was all messed up, but for the most part I think it’s ok.

If you are on Internet Explorer it might not look so great. I spent some time fixing up some of the IE bugs, but really in the end I didn’t care. If Microsoft cant put the effort into making a w3c compatible browser I’m not going to put the effort into fixing the code so it looks right on their browser. If you are viewing in Firefox or Safari it should look as it is intended to. Otherwise it might look crappy.

You’ll see I added a lot more static stuff to the sidebar. There are photos, del.icio.us links, digg links, and blogroll sites. I also have last.fm stats and top movies in there.

Comment Span Zapped

One of the best things about switching to Wordpress is I now have a sweet comment spam filter to block out all that crap I was having to manually delete on my old platform. Spam Karma is sweet. Hopefully I can keep all of that smut spam I was getting on the old site off this one.

Lots of Posts

I currently have a load of drafts that I am going to publish over the next few days. Look for some posts on Linux, The Sopranos, horror movies, and Wii modding coming soon.