Habitualchaos

Well it seems my "maintenance" of my blogging software has gone primarily smoothly. Everything seems to be in order and working effectively, as evidence of the site not being completely screwed up and outta whack.

I did hit one small speed bump; my archives are a bit messy. Seems in all my backing up of all my old stuff, I forgot to back up the template for my archives. Doesnt surprise me though, I knew Id forget something... just glad it wasnt anything major.

Lastly, before I go, I need to send a big thank you to my bud Marc for assisting me in the more J-no-good-at "technical" stuff. Of course it wasnt anything really really technical, but that didnt matter... I missed it and Marc cleaned it up for me. Thank you sir, much appreciated!

Well now Im off to go look at plugins. Weeeeeee!

Well, I am proud to say that, after many hours of tiresome testing, retesting, implementing, and wishful hair pulling... I have officially made it easier for myself to do Picturejournals.

Now, I know what youre all thinking: "So what? Its not like Picturejournals were a painstaking process before, and your stupid ass never updated them from your '04 trip to California. Whats so different now?"

I deserve that, I know I do.

I have honestly made it so much easier and cool to do though, Im already working on one I should have updated mid last year and will hopefully have it up tonight. Course thats what Ive been saying for the last few months, but I really mean it this time!

Now how did I make this thing so cool and apprently interesting enough to wanna update? Im glad you asked.

Im sure a few of you know I use MovableType for my little slice of heaven here. Well with the combination of a plugin called Photo Gallery, a series of templates from StopDesign and an iPhoto plugin called Photon... I can update my Picturejournal "galleries" with a simple click of a button in iPhoto.

It still requires some time, to give the photos titles and comments and such, but its such an less-painstaking process now that its also revamped my interest in doing them, I guess.

Either way, I know actions speak louder than typed words, so when its all done and tomorrow there is a brand new Picturejournal up... I can finally stop disappointing those around me, and youll all stop poking at me.

Except for Jenn, I like it when she "pokes" at me.