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I've been meaning to change my blogging habits for a long time. The kids are growing up so fast, and writing down their exploits daily (along with taking pictures) seems like a good way to hold onto some of those memories. In order to get there though I needed to clear away some of the obstacles : the Movable Type software was aging; the disk was full; and handling images was just too hard. I mean it's easy enough to resize them, easy enough to upload them; easy enough to cut out thumbnails; and easy enough to write a link tag. But doing each of those easy things over and over again screams out for automation - and it just takes too much time for a daily task. I need the tools to get out of the way.

So, I took the time today to upgrade the software (boy, MT4 still has a lot of rough edges : the upgrade broke all the blogs even without touching the templates or stylesheets, until I exported and reimported them again - which is now a routine step with MT upgrades), and found a nice blogging client software (ecto) that does the image resizing automatically. Everybody's blogs are upgraded (some of you have a new look - hope you like it, but you can change it) and I also added one for Barb as a Xmas present.

So now I have no excuses. Writing skills are a bit rusty, and I'm still pretty inhibited about blathering on every day, but I'm going to try. Here's a picture just in case the witing gets really boring : me as a Jedi with Batman and Dick Grayson (that's Robin's mild mannered alter ego, aka Elijah, as he's out of costume) on Halloween.