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A year ago, I was the proud owner of an 89 Camry, fondly known to our family as “Moonbeam”. It was coming to the end of its life-cycle…guppity, guppity, guppity (that’s for you, Robert). There were several known problems that just weren’t going away but they cost too much to fix and we recognized that putting that money into fixing it wasn’t going be a sound use of our resources. So, we waited and saved and waited and saved… and just lived with the problems.
Which is kind of where we are now with our 89 Camry of a Blog the software for which we got open-source and which we chose because it gave us the design control we wanted and a few nifty features (remember when cars first got power windows and locks?) and was fairly easy/fast to set-up. But we’ve had this blog up for almost a year now and know enough now to be keenly aware that its got some problems (..which some of you have ever-so-kindly informed us about…) and that there are a lot more features we should/could be paying attention to.
But we have a plan. It’s the equivalent of the Prius upgrade my family got in January… and its called Wordpress which will be forthcoming sometime in the next couple of months… (amazing how much you have to wade through to make a switch like this). It’ll also coincide with some general re-vamping of our site, which is why the switch is taking longer than we’d ideally like. We’re just having to figure out which priorities come first… and need to focus our time/energy strategically.
In the meantime, bear with a few of the guppity, guppity moments… and do keep commenting.
Jason
7 responses so far ↓
1 Jason // Oct 17, 2007 at 2:45 pm
much better metaphor, floyd–only mopeds are much easier to fix than ‘89 Camry’s. and i couldn’t say “guppity, guppity, guppity”…don’t quite know how to write the sound of a moped.
2 Steven // Oct 17, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I once drove an 89 corrolla, so this metaphor speaks volumes!
Looking fwd to the new changes.
3 floyd // Oct 17, 2007 at 5:57 pm
oops i deleted my moped comment. anyways i actually did think your blog felt a bit like a moped, even before you made the vehicle analogy.
there’s nothing cooler (re: funny looking) than a tall lanky guy riding a little moped though.
4 MOBS (Robert) // Oct 18, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Thank you, Jason! And thank you for introducing me to the guppity concept recently! That moment of that day continues to crack me up.
5 Danny // Oct 19, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Alright I will keep commenting
6 Greg // Nov 1, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Wordpress is indeed the Prius of blogging software. It is not difficult to setup - it just takes a while to get a handle on all of the various options. Once in place - it is pretty much maintenance free. And that’s not all, WP has some great, easy-to-use plugins to serve up video and audio podcasts.
Looking forward to the new format.
7 Jason // Nov 2, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Greg–one of the functions/plug-ins we’re really looking forward to is the Voting feature…that’ll be a lot of fun.
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