June 2004 Archives

"Hang onto the world/As it spins around ..."
  -- Someday We'll All Be Free by Donny Hathaway

You know who you are. You've been there for me during some dark hours. Even before you knew I had no food, you fed me, pulling out your wallet without a second thought no matter how embarrassed I was to ask. You encouraged me to keep pressing on and to do my best even though all I could see was more frustration, disappointment and defeat. You promoted me like I was your finest whore, telling everyone you could all about the good things I could do for them. And sometimes you just listened ...

I've said the words "Thank You" so much lately, grateful for your response to my plea. How can those words really convey my gratitude for taking such good care of me and holding onto me - so tight? Each time I utter those words to you, I pour my heart into them - I hope you can feel that. Thank you for your love. Thank you forever.

You've heard all about it by now: a more stable engine and plugin architecture, the closer-to-valid XHTML that it creates, the fabulousity of stopping spammers dead in their tracks with TypeKey's comment registration and the licensing drama. But does it all seem light-years away from your MT 2.x blog?

Well, there's hope for you yet! Over the past week, I've been sharing the love by converting a couple of blogs for my friends and family. Now I'm going to take you through the changes you'll make to each template, from the Main Index to the Individual Archive to the Comment Pending page. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to convert just one!

My rent party is still going on in full effect. Please roll through and contribute, if you can. Many thanks to Eric, Anil, Ronn and George for all the link love.

I can tell you this: blog entries from now on will be few and far in between until I launch the redesign (and rebranding) of this site. Whenever THAT is. I've just been SOOOOO busy. I'm just hoping all this locomotion will end up taking me some place closer to where I want to be.