I’ve officially switched from Movable Type to WordPress, the latter of which I’ve decided is a far superior platform. This involved manually copying content from the old database, including every entry, comment, timestamp, and ip address logged. Even though it took me nearly a month, I was able to go through my old entries and make the thumbnails, links, quotes, and formatting consistent.
Thanks to the experiences of every day life, for the people I hate, the people I love, the ones I respect, and the ones who inspire me to do more. It’s these that make sure I never run out of things to say.
Thanks to Trolley, who reminds me with his comments that I always have at least one reader.
Thanks to Aaron and Pat, for showing me that they care when they tell me that they keep up-to-date with my life through this.
Thanks to Bronwen, with whom I’m the person I’ve always wanted to be.
Thanks to Number18, for giving me hope with her daily life, and her über cool input jacks.
Thanks to Tina and Aurora, for their enigmatic entries that inspire me to write better.
Thanks to Winston and Barb, for letting me know that I, in turn, could inspire someone to start writing for themselves.
Thanks to Sikander for being the guy who shares music with me, even though we’ve never met in real life.
Thanks to Sophia, for introducing me to music like CocoRosie, and quoting my own old archived entries back to me.
Thanks to Dru, a design artist I’ve admired for years, for unofficially stealing from me, an unspoken compliment I hold dear to my heart.
No thanks to the stalkers, who say they’ll never visit, yet continue to read on a daily basis. The ones who hide behind services like Anonymouse, naively believing that all their http requests are masked. The self proclaimed hypocrites, who have the FUCKING AUDACITY to tell me about the vices of blogging, yet blog themselves. The exact reason why I never answer my phone anymore.
No thanks to the sequacious commentors who say stuff but don’t say anything, or those who comment for the sake of personal advertisement.
No thanks to the hotlinkers, who continue to steal my images, and in turn, my bandwidth and money.
When I was converting my database and going through the old entries, I could recall each and every emotion that drove them. My writing has become less rambling, less depressing, less cryptic since I started back in 2002. As time goes on and the entries become more recent, there seems to be a subtle, burgeoning hope, a reflection of the experiences I’ve gone through and a changing worldview.
And from the beginning of this blog to the entries I write now, the most important thing is that I always have more people to thank.
“No thanks to the stalkers, who say they’ll never visit, yet continue to read on a daily basis. The ones who hide behind services like Anonymouse, naively believing that all their http requests are masked. The self proclaimed hypocrites, who have the FUCKING AUDACITY to tell me about the vices of blogging, yet blog themselves. The exact reason why I never answer my phone anymore.”
Not welcome.
Do you have a better suggestion? Yeah, I was wrong. And I totally freaked out and I was wrong about that too. So what? Are you gonna crusify me? I didn’t intend for it to happen. And I didn’t know any better. And ya it was a big fucking mistake just like this.
You know what a good part is? I am not scared like I was and I said what I had to say even if half or all of it was nonsense. Lucky… that I’m not a perfectionist… blah, I can’t stop stalking. Like I said, you have a better suggestion, let me know. All ears. Just try not to be a jerk about it cuz I may be screwed up, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have feelings.
(I can’t believe its all stored in a database somewhere… I’m so embarrased now…)
I’ve always thought you used your own sql and php codes for the architecture.
my suggestion would be for you to stop embarrasing yourself.
In the very beginning I was running everything off my own code, but then I realized how much easier it is to have comments/plug-ins/spam blockers/calendars when you’re using a publishing platform, so I switched to Movable Type after a few months.
Do why do you care one way or another if I read this site or not, or how often I do it? Would you prefer that I didn’t? Please just say so.
I don’t feel embarrassed. I just wish somebody would explain to me why it is so wrong. (Somebody who knows about some history, not just some random internet person who doesn’t know what the hell is going on or who i am.)
btw, anonyouse hides my ip address and i really like that.
btw, the site is looking better and better everytime i see it. like the checkered detail behind the grey. its super nice. dude, you are talented. with design and writing. too bad yor such a mean mf sometimes… stuff that you say about me really gets to me. positive & negative. and i’m sure i’m not the only one. i don’t want to pick a fight here… but i think somebody should tell you.. your pretty smart/talented and its very obvious (from what i remember) that when you talk you are smart and people listen up. so next time you want to say something negative to somebody *think*. because you have influence and you could really hurt them. (like that pothead dude who you told that his band sux). and you obviously really hurt me a long time ago, which i guess is why i’m still hanging around here like a bad ghost… that, and i like this blog. so if you don’t want me here u should speak up, otherwise i think i’m coming back…
Hey man, it seems like a lot of comment material is not really focused on what comments are for … so I thought I’d add to them …
This morning I had bacon, pancakes, home fries (the square potatoes) and coffee and it was delicious.
Later.
I had a Bacon & Egg McMuffin, Sausage McMuffin, hashbrown, orange juice, and some coffee. Yours sounds better. You bastard.
It feels so funny to dive back into things and read your blog again. Or not again… but become familiar with it again. I had only been checking it here and there in recent months. And I agree, the design currently is super crispy. I’m still getting my circuits all into the WordPress goo…
number18, I highly recommend the WordPress. Let me know if you need any help setting it up, or even hosting. And congratulations again on being accepted to college!