I’ve not done a state of the blog address for quite a while. The quick update goes like this: It’s still here and I wish I had an eye for making the brown parts of the template shades of blue.
A longer version of the update goes like this.
I’ve recently read through each and every entry at WADLL. My God, what a chore. Prior to the reading I unpublished a bunch of stuff and only republished it after reading through it. During the reading I fixed broken links, corrected misspellings, and fixed some formatting problems.
I probably missed some things.
Oh, I also moved some of the content – which has already paid off. Recently a six-year old saw a shirt of mine, monogrammed with DELMER.COM and said, “Delmer dot com. I got to remember to look at that.” Not everybody needs to read about the excitement that was my divorce or the more-detailed accounts of my hormone problem; six-year olds fall into that category.
I may not have unpublished all that needs to be unpublished. I’ll be reading through it again.
[As I’m typing I’ve got one boy, in the adjoining room, playing some Metalica on an electric guitar while his brother bangs away on an electric bass. How long is summer break again?]
Now, the exiting-for-you part!!
You know how you want to read everything everybody on your blog roll publishes? And sometimes you find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff you have to work through… how, sometimes you want to say “Slow down with the posting! I can’t keep up!”
You know how sometimes you’ll come across a new blog and you’ll read a few entries and you’ll want to read everything that blogger has posted but, well, you’ve got a life and you’re sure not everything that blogger has posted can possibly be as delightful as the post(s) you’ve just read. A lot of them are probably crap and you just don’t have the time to sort the wheat from the chaff? Hell, you don’t even have time to look Google “wheat +chaff” to see what that could possibly mean, you’re so busy. And you think, “If there were only some way to make sure I was going to get to read a cute/funny/delightful entry. Boy! That would be awesome!”
Well, I’ve got news that will make groups of readers represented by both paragraphs above happy. I’m going to republish some of the older things. But just those items I think are cute/funny/delightful.
Long-time readers will recognize the post as something they’ve already read, get to tick the entry off in their feed reader, and move on to the next blog – a blog with a post that may not be cute/funny/delightful but will at least have new content.
New readers thirsting to read everything I’ve ever posted here, but who have more important things to do and don’t have time to waste on uncute/unfunny/undelightful posts, won’t have to take a risky trip back through my archives. They can simply wait for me to republish the things I like.
We all win.
It’s all about you, people. (And me, just a wittle bit.)
Well– I do have a comment. How did you do away with my cute picture of Jack and repace it with a picture of you with a short breard on my desk top? Not that I don’t think you are handsome, but you have to admit Jack is a cutie.
This just happened–I have not been playing around with the icons.
You know those brown parts of your blog that you’re having trouble changing to blue? It might be because the brown parts of your template are actually, um, shades of green.
And why did you replace that cute picture of Jack with one of you with a short beard? Seriously, dude. Jack is cuter.
Mom: I’ll take a look at that when I visit next.
Cap: Green? Hmmm. That’s closer to blue than brown is. Maybe this’ll be easier to change than I think.
And yes, ladies, Jack is adorable.
No comment on the cuteness of Jack vs the bearded dude, because I actually have a serious question. Is there an easy way to republish with out messing up original dates etc?
&npsb;
Some of my Google-indexed stuff has broken links. Guess I’d better figure that out too. Feel like I looked across the street and saw you’d cut your grass, thereby obliging me to do the same…
Heather D: I use WordPress and just had to change the status from Published to Unpublished, and then back, in the Dashboard. So I didn’t have any problem with the dates. (One or two I had to republish from my hard drive — those I pasted into LiveWriter to post.)
The biggest problem I had, and the reason for having to fix a lot of things, was when I moved from MovableType to WP the archives were handled differently. Rather than using the post name as part of the archive name, as MT does, WP numbered everything — so, links were broken. I’ve got to believe there’s a utility, method, or some sort of magic (possibly even obvious) way of making the transition without breaking links … but I failed to see it/notice it.
You are a much braver man than I.
I once downloaded a tool which lists all the broken links on your site. I gave up and was reduced to crying after 16 pages of busted links when I realized I wasn’t even half-way through my blog.
Thanks Delmer. That is helpful as heck. -Not sure what to do about the links but am at least getting help with a redirect page.
~And you got BLUE! Looks great.
Dave2: I don’t know that I’m braver… you may simply be wiser.
Heather D: The blue came about with some blogger-friend help.