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So, is the esoteric appeal worth the beatings?
Having used WordPress 2.9 for a while, I am pretty pleased with the platform, so I’m eager to try this new version out.

Congratulations go out to my friend Cathy Taylor (aka MissChatter) on her new gig with Comcast SportsNet Washington.
As you may have heard, Comcast SportsNet has vowed to expand their local sports coverage in their respective markets. Now they are expanding their local Nationals coverage even more. I’m joining Mark Zuckerman providing content (stories/photographs) for the [...]

Migration to WordPress complete, all the old Blogger content is there! There is a lot to do to get this site optimized, though. That will be ongoing, but the good news is that my content is all in here.
Regular posting resumes Monday morning.

Since Blogger is going to stop supporting FTP account blogs like this one on May 1, I need content management solution. I’m leaning in the direction of WordPress.
Some questions:

If I import my existing Blogger content is there a way to get WordPress to retain the same URLs.
If WordPress cannot retain the same URLs, should I [...]

I have been using Blogger for this blog’s content management for nearly six years, but that is coming to an end. Blogger will no longer be supporting FTP starting March 26, 2010. While they provide a migration tool, that won’t get the job done for me since I want everything to reside on yurasko.net (or [...]

GeoCities’ time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today – L.A. TimesGeoCities is officially closing today. That’s $3,000,000,000 Yahoo! probably wishes it could get back. I should have done this post as a popup with a watermark as tribute.
PREVIOUSLYGeoCities: Not dead yet, but soon – 04.24.2009
GeoCities, web 1.0 Yahoo!
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I really have not had a lunch break today, thus preventing me from blogging in any depth. There is a big meeting for my part of the company and the group I am in watched a presentation in a conference room and had a pot luck lunch. During the presentation, one of the speakers said [...]

Searching for this morning’s Nats headlines, I noticed that the prime advertising real estate on washingtontimes.com had an ad for The Washington Post, the direct competitor. This probably happened because washingtontimes.com advertising inventory is being handled by a third party network and not the Web site staff. One would at least hope so because this [...]

In the last month or so, two newspaper Web sites in my regular rotation have redesigned their front pages.
centredaily.com – The new CDT site is so…2002. After all of these years, the paper of record in State College still doesn’t have a very good Web site. The new design is functional, but blocky and boring. [...]

Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno may not be able to “download a jar of peanut butter,” but his quarterbacks coach and son, Jay Paterno is so Web 2.0. The younger occasionally blogs at The HD Journal and is on Twitter pretty regularly. Today’s tweet is how I knew it was 100 days until [...]