Scribblings migrated to WordPress
I’ve been toying with the idea of moving my blog to WordPress for ages now, and I finally have, mainly due to my discovery of the rather nice new theme I’m using. Google’s Blogger and I have been in a happy relationship since I started this blog back in April 2005 (that’s not actually very impressive as it was so skittish and irregular back then) but there are various reasons why staying with Blogger isn’t ideal. Blogger has some nuances such as, by default, setting the date and time of your posts as the time you started to write them, not the time you finished them, causing me to have to edit it every time I published a post. WordPress however does things more intelligently: you hit publish, and the time that would make sense is put on the post. This is good. WordPress also has categories as well as tags, which means I can split this blog neatly into the fact it does so many things. So after I’ve spent time categorising all my old posts, this blog will have a seperate soapbox section, and a diary section, and things like that. The move is almost seamless. Pretty much everything is at the same address as it was before, but some of my permanent links have changed because of annoying Blogger behaviour of shortening then where WordPress doesn’t. Sorry about that.
I’ve also renamed my blog again, back to ‘Intellectual scribblings’ (it was once ‘XyrWeblog | Intellectual scribblings’ – gargh how horrible). This is not an expression of arrogance. It’s just a nice little phrase that I rather like and I think it at least reflects the aim of this blog, even if it doesn’t reflect the reality. This is a lot nicer than simply ‘Sean’s blog’ which doesn’t really hold any meaning at all. There are a few issues with this new theme that are worth pointing out: the artistic scribbled labels aren’t always visible and obvious (try posting a comment and you will see what I mean) and the text is a tad small. But I really like the notebook idea since I have taken to using a notebook regularly of late, and so I think I’ll stick with this for a while. Now let’s try actually writing some decent content – after I’ve fiddled with things like the link list and post categories and the like…
A few thanks are first in order. Thanks Google for running my blog for ages, thanks the WordPress team for the free software, and thanks Evan Eckard for the beautiful theme.
Thanks for copying the theme I use.
Only because it’s so unbelievably delicious! I love it! And everyone else is now jealous ^^