October 24th, 2008
Welcome back to Tales of a Scorched Earth
After a completely unintentional (but perhaps necessary) year-and-a-half hiatus from writing, I’m ready to get back to playing games and writing about them.
I’ve spent the better part of the last month trying to sift through the backlog of fake comments, crank trackbacks and other useless cruft in my old Movable Type installation, and then deal with an aborted attempt at upgrading to MT 4.2. I tried to support the technology that got this place started, but not being able to recover old templates or even successfully import old entries tends to put a damper on things. It did not go well, to the point where I completely fucked over my old installation and had to completely rebuild the site. Needless to say I never want to use Movable Type again. Instead I turned to WordPress, and set up an installation of version 2.6.2 – which took all of 10 minutes including importing. Wordpress has changed a lot since I last used it; for the better, thankfully. I think a relaunch of toase.net deserved some new software anyway.
Some notes about the site, in general: all of the old links to the MT archives will still work from the new WordPress posts, but they will show the old design until I find way to have the new WordPress dynamic archive linking back to itself cleanly. The old MT archives will eventually disasppear, but for now I’m leaving it alone because Google has already catalogued all of the pages and it’s still a great way for people to find this place. And I assure you I am working on any glitches that appear in my customized theme.
I can’t wait to start writing here again. Welcome back!
October 24th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Welcome back.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Welcome back.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Welcome back!