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http://youtube.com/v/59IK28ry9eQ “Traditional sidewalk values”. Priceless. Still struggling to understand the whole protest-after-you-lose-the-vote thing, but I guess those are details.

It may strike some as odd that my first post-election political post would be about the GOP, but there you go: I’m a maverick. (Is it OK to use that word again? Or will it forever conjure up images of Tina Fey hawking “Palin 2012” t-shirts on QVC?) I’ve been heartened in conversations with friends…

In moving 3,000 posts over from WordPress to Blogger, errors when users visit old links are inevitable. My implementation of WordPress published posts to URLs that looked like this: http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2008/11/04/yes-we-did.php I’ve converted to Blogger, and Blogger’s permalinks are a tad different: http://tins.rklau.com/2008/11/yes-we-did.html Specific differences: no /archives sub-directory, no /day in the path (just /year and…

Yeah, I know I just basically spammed you through Google Reader (or whatever your favorite feed reader happens to be these days). But the worst is over: I’ve imported my entire blog and all posts are now live on the Blogger-managed blog here. Last step in this migration is to use htaccess to rewrite incoming…

Aaron Brazell, the mastermind behind Technosailor, is, as they say, Good People. I pinged him the other night after banging my head against a wall trying to get my WordPress blog exported properly. The issue was my reliance on Textile when drafting posts (this started in Movable Type, and I continued doing it once I…

http://youtube.com/v/yX8yrOAjfKM We may as well close YouTube – we have found the Best. Video. Ever.

Wow, is this painful. Starting with my transition to Movable Type, I started using Textile, a Movable Type plugin that let you use text-based shortcuts for doing HTML markup. In the days before a rich text editor, this was a great time-saver. A couple years later I switched to WordPress, but found a WordPress plugin…

Seven years after my entree to blogging (courtesy of a pre-Google Blogger), I’m coming back to where it all began. Stay tuned – migration of the blog from here (WordPress) to here (Blogger) will wrap up by early next week.

http://www.hulu.com/embed/5-RW1WECcZGtmO5LlmH8jg/1035/1095 That is all.