Whew! I’m done moving my old articles to WordPress! Like I said, all of the old comments are just added to the bottom of each article. For new articles going forward, comments added will show up nicer.
I decided to go for WordPress. I’m in the process of bringing all my old articles over from the old site. I’m just copying and pasting the content, specifying the orginial date of the article, and displaying any comments I received on those articles at the end of the article. I’m also tagging the old articles as I did before. It’s kind of a pain, but I’ve only got about 25 or so articles left to go. So far I’ve been able to do everything I needed, and this will make blogging a bit slicker in the future.
Today I’m in the process of moving my website to a different host. I am also playing around with WordPress, so I may or may not convert to that. It was a great experience writing my own blog from scratch. I worked out lots of fun features, like articles, comments, tag cloud, archives, and RSS feeds. I even came up with multi-user capabilities, so my brother and cousins can have their own blogs on MrAndMrsKraus.com, with the ability to set their own settings and customize the look of their blog. WordPress offers so many plug-ins though, and additional features. Plus it’s supported by a huge community and is constantly improving. Taking all that into account, and keeping in mind that I may be seeing a lot more of WordPress at work, learning the ins and outs of WordPress is appealing.
My buddy just got Fallout 3 and so I have been considering picking it up with some Best Buy gift cards I got for Christmas. Sometimes when I’m trying to make a decision about whether to buy a game, I watch videos on IGN.com. I found the following videos and it looks pretty cool. One of the things people are saying about the game is it has the best weapons of any game, perhaps ever. You decide: