Operations

I've been working on moving this blog over to the Wordpress blogging engine. I'll write some more about it, but basically I've written a one-off program that loads the blog from the Movable Type database and generates a file I can import into Wordpress. It makes sure the links track, cleans up some bad HTML, and fixes a lot of little things. The best part is that I can … [Read more...] about Anybody Willing To Do a Little Testing?

It was ten years ago today that Windypundit was born.For this anniversary, I'm going to tell you a bit about my approach to blogging, and my experience in writing a blog. Think of this as "How to Blog Like Windypundit" in one easy lesson. Perhaps those of you new to blogging will find something of interest in the accounts of one guy who's been a very minor figure in the … [Read more...] about Ten Years At the Keyboard

Yesterday, the folks at Popehat posted about cleaning out their blogroll. I checked to see if Windypundit made the cut, and it hadn't, which perplexed me because I thought I got along with Ken and Patrick. But then I checked my own blogroll, and sure enough, Popehat wasn't on it either. Sigh. Maintaining the blogroll on this account is such a pain. I keep the list of blogs in … [Read more...] about I’m Done With Movable Type

It has been pointed out that my blogroll is deficient, so it's time for a few additions, corrections, and deletions. First of all, one of my regular daily stops is the Honest Courtesan, written by retired call girl (and Nobody's Business guest blogger) Maggie McNeill. She's a good writer with mad research skills, and her blog takes a frankly libertarian approach in … [Read more...] about Blogroll Maintenance

2011 was kind of a busy year for me, especially during the latter half of the year when -- after 10 years in the part-time consulting racket -- I returned to full-time employment. It really cut into my blogging time, and I want to thank all of my loyal readers for sticking around. In any case, here at Windypundit, 2011 was the year in which: I argued that bloggers shouldn't … [Read more...] about 2011 in Review