This is it, the new Wordpress version of Windypundit. There are lots of tweaks and changes still to come, but I think I can go ahead and make the switch now and worry about the details later.Some of you may have noticed that Windypundit was off the air for a while. Yeah, well, it turns out the switchover didn't go quite the way I planned.About a week and a half ago, the … [Read more...] about Windypundit On WordPress
Hiding from Satan’s Radio
I've read several articles about the Texas school district being sued for their policy of forcing students to use an ID card embedded with "tracking" technology. The religious freedom angle seems dubious at best (though in Texas you never can tell), but I was surprised by the number of people worried about technology to "track" school children and the supposed dangers of the … [Read more...] about Hiding from Satan’s Radio
Thanks For All That Food
Just had a gigantic Thanksgiving dinner at some friends' house. Filled with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and ice cream. Feeling sleepy...trying to stay awake by doing stuff on the computer...not going...to...make...it... … [Read more...] about Thanks For All That Food
Moving to WordPress – Part 3: Blogroll
I've been blogging about the experience of moving Windypundit from Movable Type to Wordpress. In Part 1, I described the process I developed for moving over all the posts. In Part 2, I talked about the development of the new Windypundit site. The one thing I still had to do was to re-create the blogroll in Wordpress. I suppose I could figure out a way to port it over like I did … [Read more...] about Moving to WordPress – Part 3: Blogroll
Moving to WordPress – Part 2: New Website
If you've been following along, you know I've given up on Movable Type as a blogging platform, and I'm moving this blog to Wordpress. In Part 1 I explained why moving 10 years of blog posts with minimal link breakage was a lot of work. Of course, I'll have to have some place to move to. Which means I'll have to design and set up another Wordpress blog. I managed to teach … [Read more...] about Moving to WordPress – Part 2: New Website