Movable Type

So, the journal is now powered by Movable Type, which I've been using for a while now over on Reductio Ad Absurdum. GreyMatter was a wonderful piece of software, and Noah Grey is a wonderfully talented person, and I have no doubt had he continued to work on GreyMatter, it would still serve my needs. But I think Noah has found his true calling, and I think the Trotts' software fits my needs beautifully now. So there you go.

I did not import all of the old GM entries, although MT has that capability. The main reason is that GM was part of the evolution of this site, and was responsible for my learning a LOT about html (and a little about apache and how the web works), something that I didn't need to do during my Blogger and FrontPage days (ewww). As this journal is my record of my times, it would seem almost heretical to wipe out the old traces of GM. Plus, I've changed the archiving slightly. I'm not saving individual entries any longer, but rolling everything into a monthly archive. MT could have rolled in the old way of doing things and reformatted, but again, I don't want to change the old stuff. Evolution is grand!

For those who care about such things, I did tidy up the code a bit, and it should validate now. If I've broken anything in the process that you notice, please drop me an email.

For purposes of continuity, the last GM entry is available here still, and from there one can access "previous" entries.

[Posted at 10:24 CST on 01/26/02] [Link]