I’ve now completely switched from Blogger to WordPress. I think it’s mint. Don’t you?

My archives were imported without a hitch. Applying the new theme to the rest of my site was a breeze, too. It’s a good thing that when I originally designed my site, I did so with plenty of PHP includes and content in MySQL tables, so switching the look ‘n’ feel was a snap. And if I deside to change the style again down the road, it’ll still be a snap 😀

My old Atom feed will not work anymore so those of you using RSS readers will need to update the URLs. Here are the new ones:

Feed: http://www.chrisbellini.com/wp-rss2.php
Comments: http://www.chrisbellini.com/wp-commentsrss2.php

Oh, and in case you’re wondering what’s in that little LCD monitor that I’m using as a logo. It’s the server component of a client/server app that I wrote in Python to update the LMHOSTS file on client computers. I took a screenshot of my code in ConTEXT and squeezed it into that monitor with my l33t Gimp skills 😛

It appears that Pat and Barry have already started using WordPress. I’ll be joining the ranks soon. I just have to finish tweaking a theme to my liking, apply it to the rest of my site, and import all of my archived blog entries from the past three years. The import is my main concern at the moment; I have a lot of entries.

I took my last 500mg of Clarithromycin yesterday. I’m not at 100% but definitely feeling better.

I’ve even begun to move my site over from Tripod to MonsterHosting.ca. So far there’s a bit of a cosmetic change but there’s also some server-side stuff going on that I wasn’t able to do at Tripod. You’ll probably notice that the little subtitle underneath “ChrisBellini.com” at the top changes on each page refresh. Chalk that up to a little PHP script that I wrote to randomly generate an index of an element in a database. In a mySQL table, I loaded up a bunch of subtitles and the script randomly selects one. It’s nothing fancy but something I was unable to do with Tripod. More to come.

I made a search plug-in for Firefox. It didn’t take all that long but it’s specific to searching our forum at work. Maybe I’ll put it in my Projects section for prosperity.

From now on, my site will be hosted by MonsterHosting.ca instead of Tripod. So if my site appears to have disappeared over the next few days, you’ll know why. Rest assured, it’ll be back shortly.