I have acute cellulitis in my ear again. It’s a very, nasty, bad infection in the ear canal. This is the second time in less than a year. This sucks. It hurts sooooooooo bad. I’ve been up all night, unable to sleep, the pain is too much. Sigh.

It’s been a fun weekend.

Friday Dave came over, as usual. Ange joined us and we recorded a solid two hours of material for Dave’s podcast The Drinkin’ With Dave Show. The 2nd show is already up on his website. I choose to do all the back-end type stuff like setting up the website, making sure all the electronic equpment works, stuff like that; rather than get on the mics.

Dave and I had some dinner at La Imperial, the best little Mexican food restaurant in downtown Hayward, and ran into an old friend, Amy Bookout. She barely recognized us. Let’s just say that both Dave and I have gained a little weight in the last 10 years since we last saw her.

Saturday night I met Kevin and Tabetha at Buffalo Bill’s brewpub. I had a few pints and played catch-up with two old friends. A few hours later they went home, and I spent another hour or so exploring downtown Hayward.

Downtown Hayward is changing fast. It has two decent pubs, some decent restaurants, and now some decent shops. It’s almost to the point where I wouldn’t mind living there (almost, it still has a ways to go). At this rate it might be livable in the next 4-5 years.

So now it’s Sunday and I’m in bed with the laptop and remote. I’m watching the rest of the Masters, rooting for Freddy. I slept in until 2pm today, and I feel great.

And that is all.

Goodbye, Movable Type.  Hello, WordPress!

WordPress is the shit.  Easy to set up and maintain, easy to post blogs, easy to edit, easy easy easy.  Not only that, WordPress is totally free and open source.  And to top it all off, WordPress has a ton of free themes available.

I’m really happy with the WP interface.  The admin panels are logical, well designed, and of course easy to use.  The learning curve was, like, nothing.  And, it’s way more powerful than MT.

WP is free and open source and I love that.  The entire open source community is fantastic.  Most of the applications that I run on my computer are freeware/open source.  And in many cases, better than the stuff you have to pay for.  If it weren’t for PC games, I’d have moved to the freeware/open source operating system, Linux, long ago.

WP themes are everywhere I look now.  They are easy to install, free to use, etc.  I actually found very few MT themes that were ready to use and freely available.  Basically, if you wanted something that looked cool for MT you either had to do it yourself or pay someone else to do it.  On the other hand, I’ve found about 10 superb WP themes that I’m ready to use right now.  It was very hard for me to decide on the current theme.  And I didn’t have to edit a single thing.

I finished uploading all my photoalbums late last night.  Today I fixed the Photoalbums link (on top and on right side)…  everything is now working and updated and all that.

So that was a lot less painful than I had anticipated.  I really should have done this sooner.  I would have saved myself a lot of grief.

GOODBYE MOVABLE TYPE!