iPaulo

Upgraded to the latest version of wordpress and switched to a new theme called pixel. Does everyone read my blog from an RSS reader?

How cool is this?! It’s Google Flu.

and oops, happy new year and all of that too!!

Ran across this WoW raffle to raise money for a nice charity called Child’s Play. I’m sure there are thousands of them, but it was the first time I’d seen amazon wish lists used for charities. Giving toys to a hospital was very, very satisfying.

Does anyone use an rss reader to keep up with iPaulo? If so, you might not have seen a few new additions. Check them out. Also, requests from faithful ipaulo readers are now being taken for additional movie showtime links. In upgrading to the new version of wordpress, I experimented with the link management tools which work great! So send me your requests.

I finally fixed the movie links. woot!

Tada! A new look for iPaulo. The layout is from a site called open source web design. This layout is called relic, and it’s one of the more popular themes at the moment. I still have some work to do. With blog posts, links all over the place in the blog roll and movie posts, etc. the page has way too much green text for my taste. Fortunately, that’s easily changed thanks to css. I also want to find my own iPaulo banner image(s).

Well, we’ll see if this gets me going. At least it gets rid of the snowmen you have all loved for the first 4 months of the year. It’s not finished. Right now it’s very much the stock wordpress install I’ll tweak it over the next few days. For now, bye bye snowmen.

Here we go. A new era. Hopefully, gone will be the days – I mean months – of dancing cows and long intermissions between posts. Hope you enjoy the new site design. I’ll be cleaning up a few technical details, so watch out using my trackback for about a week. Otherwise, knock yourself out. Tell me what you think…

I spent a good bit of the weekend moving iPaulo.com from blogger to movabletype. A good bit of the time was spent converting the old entries to be valid XHTML. I discovered a lot of broken links from 2000 & 2001. Not sure I’ll go back to fix those. I need to finish quite a few things, like the iPaulo movie reviews, logo and image thingy. Hopefully, I’ll come up with a cool way to do the image thingy so it’s not so stale.

My favorite thing so far about movable type would have to be titles. At first I thought they would really suck. Now, I’m really looking forward to using them. As I was making the old entries valid XHTML, I added proper titles to several entries. Titles are another way to be clever… My least favorite thing would have to be the entry editing tool. Blogger’s had features like links, bold, etc. I’m sure it won’t be hard to find something for mt but it’s no fun even typing this entry.