I’ve been a little slack lately on the blog posting, most likely baby-related.

In case you weren’t keeping track, Everett is five months old now. He’s doing well, but seems only to be able to roll to the left. I suppose that’s pretty amazing considering that the two halves of his brain have only had a few months to become acquainted with each other. ;)

I’ve decided it’s time to cut some of the so-called A-list bloggers from my daily reading list. The two that aren’t going to make the cut are Dave Winer and Robert Scoble.

Dave’s been on the chopping block for a while – the entries are pretty much just “OPML this” and “OPML that”. While I appreciate his evangelization efforts for RSS, OPML just doesn’t interest me in any way whatsoever.

Robert was interesting for a couple of days last week when he stopped his Google/Yahoo/Microsoft posts entirely (the so-called “non-GYM series”), but it didn’t last forever and now he’s back to spinning his wheels. At least he hasn’t mentioned the tablet PC for a bit. I just can’t bear to hear him talk about Windows Live for the next year until the next vaporware hype-fest starts.

Two down for now but I can probably get rid of a couple more.

For those of you reading via the website rather than RSS, please excuse the CSS changes that have been happening over the last couple of hours.

I decided it was time for another CSS tweak, but it should be done now. I haven’t tested it on IE yet, but I’m crossing my fingers that it still works!

Update: Looks like everything degrades well in IE (phew).

From the first posts I made to this blog in 2003, I’ve had a couple of blogging goals in mind. I want to reiterate them to keep myself on track:

1. Post original ideas. I’d like to keep the content here fresh. There’s no use in repeating what people have said already. Writing technical articles (like my CVS-over-ssh and various other tutorials) are a good way of keeping this thing interesting.
2. Be more than a link blog. I hate link blogs – I would rather subscribe to digg or Slashdot if I want a steady stream of links. Links are okay if you’re going to make an honest attempt at discussing the content, but mindless links should be kept to a minimum.
3. Keep the conversation going. There’s a lot of other bloggers out there with fresh ideas and interesting perspectives. Blogging is a good way of getting into the conversation. It’s rewarding to post responses to some of the stuff that the rest of the world is thinking about.
4. Post often, even if it’s not much. No use keeping a blog if you’re not going to update it, no?

I accidentally posted my last entry while playing around with mo:Blog. It’s very handy to be able to compose a message offline and post it when you please!

The only missing feature is that I can’t seem to set categories per-post. There is an option to set the category per blog, but that’s a big pain to change every time.

I like Typo (and its XML-RPC backend) more and more every day.

I think I’ve got my blog converted over to Typo now. It’s going to be a bit of a pain getting my old article archives up and running, but the tough part was just getting the blog ported over.

I’m not going to worry about importing all my old articles into the new blog. I have some mod_rewrite rules set up to ensure that all the articles are redirected from their many old URLs to their new homes.

I have the old news archive available here, but Google is still the best way to find stuff on here.

I’m taking the plunge and making Typo my primary blogging engine.

It’s going to take a while to get used to the markup filter method of blogging (vs. the WYSIWYG method I was using before).

Typo gives you three choices for markup:

• Textile
• Markdown
• Markdown w/Smartypants

You also get a live preview of what you are typing (post-markup filter) while you typo. It’s a little unnerving, but helpful when you aren’t familiar with the markup language. It reminds me a bit of hearing an echo of my voice while speaking.

I think I’ll be blogging a lot more with Typo that I was before. It’s more convenient for me to hit a web interface to start a blog post than it was firing up an application that only existed on my home computer.

It’ll take me a little while to redirect all my various pages to this new blog, so bear with me!