Bozzy’s World

The other reason why I switched from Movable Type to Wordpress* is because of those goons at Six Apart had to go and assimilate the crappity crap of crapola that is LiveJournal, which means they bought them out.

The only thing good about LiveJournal is that I can go to the movies just to get that delicious popcorn and then come home and be entertained for a few minutes which seem like hours because the snooze button on the LiveJournal time clock broke.

Then I move on to the next best thing: MySpace and wonder how in the hell 16 year old girls have 35 thousand friends. Look folks, if you have that many friends ON THE INTERNET then chances are, you have 0 friends that you can actually talk to face to face. It’s just called logic: Spend an ass amount of time trying to get 35,000 people to add you on MySpace = Less time for you talk to real people face to face. Twirl on that for awhile.

To sum up LiveJournal, it is nothing but drama, and when it is not drama, it is nothing.

* The other reason I switched to Wordpress is because it’s better, you dingleberry.

Well, I finally did it. I moved away from Movable Type. It hurts. Not only was it the only CMS I was used to, but it was the CMS that started it all for me, and I feel all dirty, like I just betrayed a loved one. However, WordPress is so much sleeker. It’s all PHP, none of that Perl bullshit, and it even has it’s own blogrolling system, so I had to switch.

Yeah, I lost the originality of my old design, but I think it was time for that to change as well. I haven’t changed that layout (with the exception of the logo) in 2 years. Something needed to change. I’ll eventually make a new logo to replace the text logo I have right now, and the colors may change, but for now, they won’t.

Peace and keep reading if you were reading in the first place and maybe start reading if you weren’t reading in the first place

In another month, I will have been at this little thing called blogging for three years. Whoa, three years. Yes, three years. Which is usually the amount of time I quit doing something and focus my short attention span on some new shiny thing.

In the three years I have been blogging I have gone from having a day-to-day journal blog, to a tech blog, to a political blog, and most recently to a general comedy and rant blog. I guess I have a pop culture blog now, I really don’t know. Everytime I try to pigeonhole my blog my head begins to hurt and I start to cry. When I cry, things just happen to break or otherwise stop working… on their own. Yeah.
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Having been on Movable Type for about 3 years now, I know how to do things. If you’re just starting out, listen up.

The default way of archiving is pretty dumbassian (Yes, that’s my new word. Get used to it.), it’s just a sequential ID based on the last entry ID across all blogs. Hardly search engine friendly. What you need is to dirify! The Movable Type Manual mentions this, but it doesn’t do much in the way showing how you can apply it. So I will.

Here’s what you do:

Individual: <$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/%d/"$><$MTEntryTitle trim_to="15" dirify="1"$>/index.html
Daily: <$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/%d/index.html"$>
Weekly: week_<$MTArchiveDate format="%m_%d_%Y"$>-<$MTArchiveDateEnd format="%m_%d_%Y"$>.php
Monthly: <$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/index.html"$>
Category: <$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>/index.html

I know what you’re thinking… He forgot to explain what this dirify thing does! That dumbass! Dirify converts all letters to lowercase and converts spaces to the underscore “_”. I realize, I just smiled at you. Forgive me.

Then there’s “trim_to” which is pretty self-explanatory unless you’re in the special needs class. Hey, it’s okay, that’s why I’m here. It’s pretty simple, the number value you give it, will trim the number of characters to that number of characters. Capeesh?

Well, that’s about it, but as an added bonus, I’ll tell you the right sites to ping, along with the default blo.gs, weblogs.com, and technorati.com:


http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/


Of course, if you want to ping everything manually, yet all at once, there’s always Ping-o-matic.

It’s not too late for a little reflection, it’s only 21 days into 2005. Here’s the summary of the past 12 months…

January: Britney Spears gets married, then annulled. I bought 4lbs of banana runts. Ecstatic for the rest of the year when I find out Joe Gibbs came back to coaching the Redskins. Dean screams…TO BE ABLE TO BE HEARD OVER THE LOUD ASS CROWD.
Febuary: Janet’s titty says hello.I tried to find a new job. Failed. Mel Gibson creates a stir.
March: Kerry takes the democratic nomination. Civilization as we know it ends, I get jury duty.
April: I got free pretzels. Kill Bill vol2 hits theaters. I see it three times.
May: I don’t post much because of Jenna May. I know, that means nothing to you. Next month.
June: I find out Jenna is on heroin. Ronald Reagan dies, OJ goes on TV to say “it wasn’t me”. Julia and I meet ‘freedomtickler’ from the forums at Fletcher’s.
July: Marlon Brando dies. I get drunk off my ass. Those two are not related. I get a flat tire. I want to go to Otakon, but don’t.
August: NEW CAR! Vacation. Update Movable Type. It was a slow month.
September: Mac Culkin gets arrested for doin Mary Jane. Conan set to replace leno in 2009. I see movies.
October: What about Poland? I shocked the world; bought a PC. Jon Stewart pwns Tucker Carlson. Redsox win the series. Jenna got out of jail.
November: Fuck Bush. Dental implants procedure (started in 2003) completed.
December: Possible cure for HIV is found. I almost crash on route 40 in the snow, because of stupid driver.

There, if you want more detail read the monthly archives.