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Well not much to say about it here, since I already said it there. I'm making minor adjustments and naming MMOROG back to NecroRogIcon, the name that really suited my blog best.

There.

*brushes dust from his hands*

I've finished porting over MMOROG to Drupal.

It was a bit more work than expected, this wasn't a simple and quick data transfer between blog software, but the reward to effort ratio is pretty high and I'm very pleased with the directions I can move MMOROG in now.

That site has had a long history, I consider it my morphing home on the web since '94. Oh initially of course it was just a homepage in the ancient sense, but I updated my commentary on it so often that my friend Xandria finally convinced me to move to a blog format (we called it journaling back then, lol not so long ago) in '99. It migrated from a funky and ill-conceived cache-driven archive to Movable Type and then Wordpress and now I'm looking forward to its healthy future with Drupal.

Basic site timeline:
Blog / Site Transitions: Rog's page » Rog-Cam » NecroRogIcon » MMOROG
Software: Static pages » Custom PHP » Movable Type » Wordpress » Drupal

I've cleaned up the CSS and markup of the page considerably, opting for full XHTML strict instead of the old HTML 4 Transitional. The CSS validates. The XHTML layout validates, but the content is bound to break validation unless I go through and individually clean up every article (the old Movable Type ones are particularly munged). There's also a line from the webstats software I use (Visitors, configured to document screen resolution) that is really disliked by the validators, but that's a necessary evil because it's specifically tracking the errors for its data.

I'll happily be adding new stuff to MMOROG soon.

Okay time to work on the next site. =)