With the redesign (thanks Aaron) of my "start" page, I wanted to slowly move changes into the different weblogs I write. Those changes include:
• Coming up with a unified search for any and all of the sites. (Done through the use of Google's customized search tools - not yet added to the sidebar, though.)
• Coming up with a unified rss feed for any and all sites. (I have some leads, but I'm not even close to understanding how rss is actually produced by MovableType and WordPress.)
• Coming up with a new color scheme for stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/. (This is getting really old.)
• Coming up with some way of dealing with comment spam. I've been desperately avoiding this issue for a long time now and simply need to find a way to deal with it. I miss the comments I received for some of the howto postings I've put up over the years. The comments have not only been helpful, but have led me to meet new people. Comment spam is such a waste of time and right now, I receive well over 200 a day on the two weblogs that have been around the longest (stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/ and rescogitans.net/blog/). So, what I've decided to do is remove mt-comments.cgi all together. Once I have learned a way to deal with the crap, I'll put it back in service and hopefully reconvene commenting.
One of the reasons I still even pursue weblogs is that, 1) I'm an avid reader of around 10 and skim through over 60 different ones in a a week's period of time and 2) I like the outlet. We have had a number of things occur at work and with a business venture I ended and whose remains I used to start a new one. Both of those activities have produced a lot of experience and a lot of thought on various topics. In a way, I really do this all for myself. For the two people out there who actually look at any of my writing regularly (thanks dadLaw and naked guy in a lawn chair who is really freaking me out), I really do appreciate the readership and someday, I'll maybe be consistent enough to generate content on a regular basis. So, I want to keep doing it and while putting some energy into it, I'd like to make the experience "nice" for the readers out there.
Step one was the new entry page. Step two... well, that's a conglomeration of things.
