::A Geek in Korea::

After several hours of staring at cryptic comments, .php files, and various online tutorials, I have a somewhat functional site. Comments should be enabled. People should be able to register. Archives should be…archiving. Anti-Spam tools are fuctional. I’m giving it a cautious “thumbs up” at the moment.
I still have a few things to do having to deal with the move over to a modern blogging tool.

• Beautify my archives with CSS
• Get some cool plugins going to justify the move
• Get my links back in order
• Figure out what the hell I am doing.
• Get “pretty urls” working. Seriously, anyone able to help on this one? mod_rewrite? .htmaccess? help!
• Use more bulleted lists.

I’m sure there will be a few growing pains now as I get used to this new software. The process using it has ranged from “Wow, that was simple,” to “Pound nails in my eyes, this stuff is confusing,” hard. Thank goodness I never got involved with any computer related fields after college.

Regardless, the site will continue on no matter what is driving the content creation at this end.

This is a test post of the new blogging tools I plan to run on this site for the time being. There tends to be a point in time where things tend to look like they are woking, then I break them horribly. This is that time. So far I like the Wordpress software very much, but it doesn’t do friendly URLs like it should. I wonder if I can manage to fix it. The WYSIWYG text editor is mighty nice.

This looks like a mighty fine tool. I can even post drafts, work on them online at home or in the office, then post them at a later date. This will help me find more time to work on higher quality posts. It is, however very complicated, with a few hojillion options to look into.

Be patient as I move content over to the new site layout. I’ve got about five years of stuff to move, a mess of html to untangle, and only a few days to do it all in before I’m out of the country.