{"id":87,"date":"2008-12-01T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:51:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T02:51:34","slug":"the-future-of-contra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Contra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this afternoon, I finally did something I’d been meaning to do for literally years<\/em>: Configure a dedicated domain for ContraPositive Diary. It’s done, and I’ve pointed contrapositivediary.com to the WordPress instance<\/a> I created back in September on Fused Network<\/a>. I’m still learning it, testing it and interviewing widgets and plug-ins, so although the domain and the blog are now live, there’s still not much to see.<\/p>\n

That will change on January 1. On that day I will stop editing Contra entries by hand (as I’ve done since 1998) and begin using WordPress. Entries from 1998-2008 will remain pure HTML and be accessible as such. I’m going to copy them from duntemann.com over to contrapositivediary.com, but the copies on duntemann.com will remain there until I kill the Sectorlink hosting account and move the domain over to Fused Network. I intend to keep my LiveJournal account<\/a>, and use the LJXP crossposter plug-in<\/a> to automatically cross-post anything I post on WordPress to LJ.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of other stuff on duntemann.com that has to go somewhere. The duntemann.com domain is begging for a new index page anyway, and I’m working on how to organize it. I do know that my Maker material on electronics, telescopes, and kites will all be rewritten using CSS and placed under my junkbox.com index<\/a>. I intend to install a new instance of the Gallery photo manager there, and move the Tech Projects portion of gallery.duntemann.com over to gallery.junkbox.com. Beyond that, well, I won’t know until next year.<\/p>\n

Some conceptual issues remain undecided; e.g., should I continue to group short link citations into larger Odd Lots entries, or just post them as I find them as individual entries? The way I do it now is an artifact of how I create Contra entries generally: I keep a text file in a window and add short items to it until I decide it’s time to format them and post them as a group. That becomes unnecessary with WordPress, and I can streamline the whole process by just popping up Semagic (or something like it) and posting them Right Now instead of storing them locally until I have time to format them for uploading.<\/p>\n

WordPress itself<\/a> is an amazing thing. I’m still trying to figure out what all it can do, either by itself or with the jungle of plug-ins you can find for it. What I know<\/em> it can do is save me time, which seems to be in shorter supply every year, and that, ultimately, is what the whole exercise is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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