For anyone who reads this post after Saturday at noon, the change will likely already be in place. For those who read it before; it will be the last post displayed under the old look.

I spent some time tonight and tweaked the blog template. The new version will match (identically) the new style and design that I’ve adopted over at MZ Online. The idea is pretty simple — try to keep my existing blog looking as close to the rest of the site as possible. Consistency!

I was a little concerned that this would be quite an undertaking, but it’s not been too bad. I’ve become intimately familiar with the blogger template system as a result, but it’s been good. In fact, I’ve pretty much got the template in a ‘go’ state, but I have some text style tweaking (and analysis) to complete before I actually make it public. This all is a good thing, because it means I won’t have to install WordPress myself (not a big deal in and of itself, really), get it all configured, and then move all my blogger posts to it. That and I don’t have to deal with updates or maintaining the data.

So yeah, I’m being lazy, but I don’t want to keep moving things around any more than I have to…especially since I managed to get my look working in a blogger template. So I’m happy. 🙂

Not much else really exciting happened today. It was a pretty laid-back day once again, and that’s alright by me. One thing that we did manage to do was ‘paint’ Kirstin’s mouth (and Beth’s boobs) purple. It’s a bit of a long story, and I have some pictures of the ordeal. I didn’t upload any to Flickr tonight, though, because the only reasonable pictures of Kirstin (with a purple mouth) I managed to get make her really look sickly or dead. They’re actually kinda scary looking.

So we’ll have to see about different pictures later. I’m sure I’ll get a few, because this will go on for a few days (purple mouth/boobs) the way I understand.

It’s supposed to be rainy and unpleasant tomorrow, so I will likely end up working on the blog template in the earlier part of the day and probably focus on cleaning the cistern walls tomorrow afternoon, unless it’s nice enough to mow the lawn (unlikely).

Another thing I may start tackling is moving the really old ‘news system’ posts to the blog archive here. It’ll be a lot of copy/paste sort of stuff, but incredibly tedious (since there are a few years’ worth of posts) and a manual process. I didn’t bother with it before because they were all easily accessible; however, now that I’ve redirected the /zaskem at mzonline.com back to the root (since I’m no longer differentiating the two entities), unless you know how to access the TWiki installation (or have a bookmark), there’s no way to see the old news stuff. That, and I can remove the Zaskem web on the TWiki installation once I complete that process.

I may also take a few screenshots for reference and comparison at some point in time. We’ll see what happens, but in the meantime, the bed is calling. So until next time…

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
– General George Patton (1885-1945)

–MZ