Of course, it’s never exactly five questions.
- How long have you had a weblog? – On and off for just over a year. During the stretches where I had no dedicated website I used other locations’ “journal” functions to make do.
- What was your first post about? – What most such postings usually contain: “Hey, I got it working! Yay!” The first greyduck.net posting can be seen here. My very first Zero posting from March 28 2001, “Getting Started,” reads:
And so far, I’ve only managed to break it a lot. Dear gods, let me get it unbroken, and quick!
For one thing, the Synopsis portion seems to be well-screwed. The Body is the only thing that shows up. Nevermind that using the “Preview” feature adds the article to the database… every time you click Preview. Time to send polite feedback to the program author? I’ll beat on it for a while first and see what happens.
I also need to experiment with links, images and what-not.
I will add that the extremely-modular setup of Monaural Jerk means that I was able to easily remove the “headers” from the journal.php page so I could integrate it neatly into my home page structure. Or “more neatly” anyway… give me time, I’ll get this thing looking good.
Mind you, it turns out that the Synopsis doesn’t show up by design, and the “Preview” issue has long since been resolved. - How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one? – Hoo boy. Well, my first dedicated journal-style website was Zero. That was shut down by the Powers That Be. Eventually greyduck.net was born, but then it had to move to a new server.
- What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else? – Monaural Jerk. It would take something really fantastic to get me to change. MJ does exactly what I want, exactly the way I want it. It relies on having a server you have a reasonable amount of control over, and in order to customize it you have to tinker with it by hand. In my book, of course, those count as benefits of the system.
- Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place? – “Read people?” What, they have text printed on their bodies? Anyway… I’m aware of the distinction between “journal” and “blog,” I just fail to care about said distinction. If someone writes about and links to interesting things, good. If someone writes crap and links to stupid things, bad. This isn’t brain surgery, folks. Is my site a journal? Is it a blog? Does it matter?