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just a note: since i changed CMS systems, the address for the RSS feed has changed. i recently implemented a permanent redirect, but for future reference, the new RSS URL is: http://mikeyboy.com/feed/

so, i’m trying an offline blogging tool again. i’ve recently purchased TextMate – a really great code editor for Mac OS X.

it turns out TextMate has a “Blogging” bundle that i can use to push new posts to my blogs. all b’zillion of them. let’s see if it works — if you’re reading this, welcome to a brave new world (again).

something has changed here!

after just a few years running the Drupal content management system, i’ve switched again. this time, to WordPress.

why?

because i want to be like the coolkids. no, i kid. sorta.

because i don’t need Drupal. i don’t need the extensive community-supporting framework. i just need a blog, and i want the most advanced blog software available. i want to get into developing themes and plugins as well, and this allows me to concentrate on making them for one system.

so, to begin all this, i made this theme. from the ground up, created every file and wrote (almost) every line. the only parts of code i repurposed were the logic for conditional comment display (from the default WordPress theme), and a CSS reset developed by Eric Meyer. (read my CSS file, i attribute the code to him).

for now, things may be sparse and not every dark corner may have been fully fleshed out. i’m working on it. but i’ve been getting emails from people (hi, mom!) wondering why i haven’t updated my site in a while. well, this is why.

so, the spammers decided to send emails out with @mikeyboy.com domain names as the return address. if this is your first time reading mikeyboy.com due to one of these emails – congratulations! you found my mundane weblog about random boring crap that happens to me.

but i didn’t email you about viagra or stock tips. sorry.

yes, things look quite different. let me explain.

i’ve switched web hosting companies, which in itself should not make a marked difference in the site. but while i did this, i upgraded my site to the latest release candidate of Drupal, an Open Source website management system (they call it “community plumbing” and i think that suits it well).

so now i’m on Drupal 5.0 RC1, instead of Drupal 4.7.4. this is the default theme, “Garland” with a few little tweaks. i will be further updating the php code to fix a few pecadillos that i’ve observed, but other than that, i think the out-of-the-box experience with Drupal 5.0 RC1 has been fantastic.