It’s probably because I still harbor a lot of unresolved resentment over the whole MT-Blacklist debacle that I haven’t bothered blogging much in the past year. Thanks to Jay Allen’s poorly written anti-comment-spam tool MT-Blacklist, I had a complete failure of my MoveableType installation back in June 2005 and had to switch to Wordpress. Never mind the fact that the blatently bad, unpatched bug that caused me to lose 4 years of work was a KNOWN but undocumented issue at the time. Never mind the fact that forum posters had been screaming for Jay to post some sort of warning about the possible problem. Never mind the fact that the reason Jay didn’t post a warning is because he was busy interviewing with and getting hired by SixApart, (the company that owns MovableType), rather than looking out for his users. Never mind any of that.
What is done is done and I’m not bitter. Much.
It is time that I put that behind me and started writing a bit more frequently. The new site design is the first part of that process. I think I’m finally happy with the layout and feel of the site for the first time since the conversion from MT.
As usual there has been no shortage of drama to blog about, only a lack of motivation to actually do it. Entries coming soon bout my step-sister’s half-hysterical half-scary meltdown at my house, my grandmother’s amazing recovery from the brink of death, and a very cool story about my dream to own a black cowboy hat.