Over the weekend, I finally got annoyed with the fact I was running a version of Movable Type that had been obsolete more than five years, and upgraded my blog software. This is not a procedure I recommend to anyone. If you feel like running a blog and you're not the kind of digital control freak who wants total power over his online identity: go hosted.
All the different RSS feeds are gone. There is now just the one atom feed at http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/atom.xml. All the old feed URLs should redirect to this feed.
Comments are back, at least until spam pisses me off enough that I disable them again
The new layout has been tested in Safari on the Mac, and vaguely looked at in Firefox 3 on the Mac. I'm assuming people will let me know if it doesn't work on their computers.
I'm posting less promiscuously to Javablogs. The old javablogs feed was "everything nerd-related", now I'm only going to post Java-specific stuff.
Function follows form follows function:
It's not a particularly well-kept secret that I like the sound of my own voice. Over the years, this led to my blog being built around its longer posts (when you're blogging, anything over about four paragraphs is long). As a result, last time I redesigned my blog, it was optimised to put these article-length posts front and centre.
What I found, though, was this design discouraged me from posting. If what I had to say couldn't be stretched to multiple paragraphs, I'd as likely not say it. The result was that maintaining my blog became a chore. A lot of things I could have said with just a link, a quote and a (hopefully) pithy comment were never said, or worse were stretched into posts too long to sustain their source material.
As such, it's no coincidence that when I was forced to redo my blog's templates anyway, I gravitated towards a layout that owes a lot to Tumblr. Maybe this will help me update more often.
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