Once upon a time, long ago, I started TnTLuoma.com using Greymatter, which was a very popular piece of blog software before most people knew what blog software was.
Then I moved to MovableType, because it was free (mostly) and popular.
MovableType then went to not free, then a little free, and (if I remember the latest) is free again, at least for some people in some situations.
In the meantime, WordPress has become more popular, and it is also easier to update because Dreamhost has it as one of their one-click installations. Not only will it install it in one click, but it will also update it.
For awhile I was running the main TnTLuoma site, a separate blog for the Opera Lover series. Then I did the same thing here, with http://tj.tntluoma.com and http://dmin.tntluoma.com.
Tonight I have merged the posts from the old TnTLuoma site, the Opera Lover series, and the D.Min. blog.
I have no idea what this will do to things like the RSS feed, which might see these as “new posts” (I hope not) but it will hopefully make my life easier in the long run.
If I had unlimited time I’d do it all the right way, setup htaccess redirects and all that, not to mention getting the older Opera Lover series in here. Unfortunately the original Opera Lover series and revision was not written in any kind of weblog software, I wrote all the HTML myself (sadist that I was).
I suspect that the Opera Lover series is now largely useless anyway. Sad, but true.
I also added my 3 most recent Twitter postings over on the side there. WordPress Plugins rock! I would have added more, but about 5 down right now is an expletive posted after the Red Sox/Yankees game tonight, and I didn’t want that showing up on the site.
The WordPress theme I am using is the one I had chosen for the D.Min. site I rather like the image at the top. Is he walking or standing still? Why is he alone? Why is his back towards us? Is he a student (I assume so from the backpack)? It’s a picture I would have liked to have taken. Maybe someday I’ll have a better one of my own to put up, but for now, I’ll stick with it.