Now that this here blog is more than 1000 posts old, I figured that it was about time that it actually worked.
The redesign is still a work in progress, but my goal this go around is to clean things up a bit. Sadly, that required the purging of all comments that have ever been made. My outdated version of the Movable Type platform left me more than a little bit vulnerable to spammers. In the past year, I racked up an astounding 81,000 bullshit comments, mostly in the archives.
A while ago, I remember someone high up at AOL proposing an e-mail tax. A penny to send an e-mail, any e-mail. Still forty-one cents cheaper than a stamp! The reasoning was pretty sound--spammers won't be able to afford it!
Sadly, when you want to encourage a talkback on a blip of a website like my own, you need the comment engine to be as easy for people to use as possible. Otherwise, the interest wanes and we all move on to Gizmodo or some other gadget porn website. (Certainly it isn't just me.) The easy commenting lets the robots walk all over it and some stupid ringtone website just got a slightly higher ranking in Google thanks to it's new link from my blog. So you see, it's all Google's fault that all of your comments are deleted. If you'd like to let them know how you feel about it, climb onto your roof and organize the tiles into a message for their satellite to photograph.
Also, get naked. You'll be three pixels high and famous one day.
That aside, I've finally introduced categories to my blog in a bid to catch up with 2002. Soon, I'll be posting scary food news in the Food Truths category as well as some interesting stories from My Friend, the Waiter in his. Both of these were ideas that I wanted to start as separate blogs, but never got around to. Now, they'll be something to post here! Something I'm allowed to post here, unlike the current project that I am working on.
Finally, the site should be more compatible than ever. Reading better on them fancy new devices, the iPhone and most importantly the Kindle. If a blog is all one big ego stroke, it might as well look the best on my device of choice.
