May 2008 Archives

Some people use the word ‘mecca’ to mean an occasional hotbed of visibility (and debauchery). I’m talking about a neighborhood where we could greet each other walking down the street and actually talk to each other. Atlanta? I’m not so sure about that anymore. For one, everything’s so spread out and isolated. And every time I’ve visited, the other Black gay men I noticed were either scurrying home to their own cul-de-sacs or drunk at a bar. Or drunk at the mall. Um, not quite what I had in mind …

Yes, it does, even though it’s been about a year, it still hurts. The completely different interface. All the new template tags and templates, so many more templates. All those plugins of yesteryear, rendered utterly useless. And the more you customized any of it - ouch - the more you felt the loss. Many bloggers I know that used it either stayed with the version they had or chose to start over with other software instead of upgrading to Movable Type 4. Or if you were like me, you stopped blogging altogether. Playing around with Tumblr and Vox and ranting from time to time on MySpace just wasn’t cuttin’ it anymore, so it’s time to bite the bullet.