LAST POST: Looka! attempts to enter the 21st Century.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This will be the last Looka! post you ever see as a completely hand-coded weblog. And if you're reading this via an RSS reader, this is the last post you'll see until you update your RSS reader, as the feed is changing. More below.

Changes are afoot, kids! I've finally decided to take the plunge and convert this weblog into one that is entirely powered by WordPress, and thereby joining other weblogs of the current century. There are several things you'll have to keep in mind during this transition, if you're going to stay with me (and I sincerely hope you will).

First off, it's going to take time. My dear friend Marleigh Riggins Miller is doing the conversion for me, but it's on her own time, so it might be a bit before we get started. Plus, I'll be in Europe for 2 weeks starting in the 3rd week of October, so that'll slow posting down a tad. I have a simple, temporary template up now, though, and I will be able to get posts up. They'll be ugly, but readable.

To further complicate matters, I'm changing the URL of the blog.

As of this moment please change your bookmarks and website links FROM http://www.gumbopages.com/looka/ or especially
http://www.gumbopages.com/looka/index.html to the following new URL:

http://looka.gumbopages.com/

The first of the old URLs above might work for a while, but the one ending in /index.html will NOT. Please change them as soon as you can. Sorry for the hassle.

UPDATE! The RSS feed will also be changing! Please change your RSS feed FROM http://www.gumbopages.com/looka/looka.rss to the following new URL:

http://looka.gumbopages.com/feed/

This WordPress thing is gonna be good in the long run, but it's a huge pain to set up. ("The famous five-minute installation," my fishbelly white Irish ass.)

Looka! is gonna look like hell for a bit, until Marleigh's finished, so please bear with us. This is a lot of work for both of us, but it will ultimately be a Very Good Thing, believe me. I'll be able to post more easily and quickly, and I hope more often.

If you attempt to hit my URLs now you'll get the WordPress version, so to make a comment on this post hit the archived page at http://looka.gumbopages.com/archive/2009-09.html#30 where it'll be permanently archived.

See you on the other side. This is exciting!

And thanks for sticking with me for 10 years and then some. Let's see if we can make it another 10.

xo

Chuck

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