Been playing around with Movable Type, looking around the net to find out what I can do with it, and I’ve decided to ditch the blogroll (mainly because I couldn’t remember my username and password for it) and set up a sideblog, which I’m going to use as a quick repository for links to useful pages.
I prefer to have everything handled on-site so I am in full control over it, rather than having to rely on someone else’s service. If blogroll suddenly decide that they’re only going to offer a paid service, I don’t want to have to type in all my links again. This way, they’re on my database, and they get backed up with my database.
I might (if I ever get round to it) look at some of the ways of getting comments back onto this without attracting the spammers. I know it can be done, but let’s face it, it’s just taken me about 10 hours to get this sideblog up and running, what chance do I have of making this site spam-repellant this side of Christmas?
By the way, there are two reasons why it took me 10 hours to get the sideblog up and running. First reason was that the tutorial I was following didn’t seem to work properly, and the second reason was that I spent 5 hours of those 10 at my parents for dinner. Once I found a tutorial that worked it only took me 10 minutes to set up, plus another half-hour of playing with the style sheet to get this thing into three columns.
Anyway, it’s done now. It’s in the past, so fuggehdaboudit.
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