Blogging

I've been getting a blizzard of comment spam lately, so I've set a much more restrictive comment policy. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully all will get better when I move to Wordpress. … [Read more...] about Temporary Comment Deconveniencing

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