I still need to test these pages for accessibilty and standards-compliance, including better use of the title attribute in the a tag. I need to fully document the software I've used to build this, including all MT plugins.
Perhaps less boring is adding a What I'm Reading/Listening To sideblog, but that requires tweaking the design. I'll probably move from two columns to three, adding the sideblog to the right.
I've added a Media page to this site, listing books I'm reading and music I'm listening to. Eventually, I want to have that stuff as a sideblog on the front page, but I'm still working on that.
A few things have changed around here. Probably the most noticable is that my weblog now shows up directly on the front page of my site. It seems to be accepted practice in the blogging community to put the blog front and center, so that it's the first thing visitors see when arriving at your site. Examples: Kotte.org, Bluejake, megnut.com.
I'll keep the Fugue State link active, mainly because that's where comments still reside on older posts. More on that later.
What happened to the title "Fugue State"? Hey, I liked it too, but all things must pass.
I don't know whether anyone but me ever tried digging through the Fugue State archives, but damn was it a pain in the ass. You had to first scroll down to the calendar. If you wanted to browse back through the archives, you had to click the link for the previous month, and then click the link for a specific date. But if you were, for whatever reason, curious to find out what I was blogging on back in January 2002, you had to keep clicking back and back and back and back.
What a pain. Calendar-based archives, in my opinion, are annoying to use, so I've done away with them. (Note, I still have date-based archives, but I no longer use a widget that looks like a monthly calendar.)
I always promised to set up category archives on Fugue State, but I never got around to doing it. I think I'd have had to manually set up links to each of the category pages in Radio Userland. The pages always existed, but I'd have had to explicitly write links to take you to them. I think. It confused me, and so I never quite figured it out.
It was easy, though, to set them up in Movable Type, and so now, you can access category archives in two ways. First, at the bottom of each post, I've listed the category or categories into which that post falls. Click that link and you'll see all the posts that fall into that category. Second, the Archives page links you to a page of date-based and category-based archives.
I imported every post from Fugue State (my Radio Userland blog) and my old Blogger blog, for the convenience of having everything available in the archives. The Fugue State entries were all categorized using Radio's categories feature, and so they're all available when you click each category.
As noted, I've imported all entries from the blogs that came before this one. When I did so, however, the comments on those older entries did not come along for the ride. There might be a way to import those comments, but I haven't found one yet.
This weblog is now powered by Movable Type. Why? Mainly because I never was able to properly configure either Radio Userland or my home PC to allow me to blog remotely. I could only update and access my Radio blog from my home computer. Movable Type is installed in such a way as to allow me to blog from anywhere, and I dig that.
Alas, however, my old hosting service, SoftCom/MyHosting, does not support the use of Perl scripting, which is a requirement for using Movable Type. So deciding to use MT unfortunately meant changing providers. Luckily, Jen Krieger recommended Affordable Host, and barring a couple of small glitches, moving over to them was pain-free.
I still have some small things to tidy up around here, and I have big plans for the future, so as they say, watch this space.