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Earlier today I was able to snag an interview with Peter Stork of exit670.com:

Me:

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 So, Peter, I noticed there have been some changes in the site design over the past few hours.

Peter: Yeah, some tweaks.  I was toying with a completely new design, but to be honest the current one isn’t that bad.  So I removed the brown background, placed some of the biographical navigation stuff up top since the red bar was kind of a waste otherwise.  Little things, but I think it goes a long way.

Me: The Leon (Professional) dvd  Any more changes in store?

Peter: Well, since I’ve finally joined the 20th century like FDR addressing the nation on the telly by starting to use Twitter, I’ll be adding a Twitter feed to the page.  And the navigation bar is going to be condensed down some.  It’s kind of cumbersome right now.  I’m also debating rotating the images at the top instead of having a static banner.

Me: What about content?  You don’t really seem to write much anymore?

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 Yeah, no shit.  That needs to change, and I think it will.  This is all part of that motivation to actually get off my lazy bum and write.  I get the feeling it might actually happen this time.  Having a better site design, oddly enough, helps because I don’t look at the site and go “wow, I want NOTHING to do with that.”

Me:

 What about people who read your posts as Facebook notes?  Does this mean anything to them?

Peter: Well, they can bookmark exit670.com and read them there, too, with pretty colors and such.  It’s kind of a big deal.

Me: People know it?

Peter: Looking at my visitor stats…no.

The last time I spoke here I merely crossposted an entry from my Digital Route 66 blog.  Since then I’ve added a slew of posts over there…and nothing here.  Well then.

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So what have we been up to?  Well, as you can probably tell from the fact that all my writing was on the Route 66 blog…Route 66 stuff.  The state Motor Tour, the national festival in Litchfield, et cetera.  Fun.

The Northern Kingdom move Miracle hd Northfork download Steel Magnolias psp Maybe one of these days I’ll get back to writing here on a semi-regular basis.

I’ll try.

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We’ll see.

With the relaunch of this very website I decided to revert back to the old standard: Movable Type. I know you’re on the edge of your seat right now. Don’t fall off, folks.

Warning: Unless you care about blog/content management systems, avoid the following. You’ve been warned.

It was when the Trotts decided to begin charging for MT that I decided I was tired of rebuilding my pages. After several years you accumulate quite the archives, particularly when 300 posts are stored not only as individual pages but also filed categorically and by month. Lots of .html files (or now, in this century, the hipsters use the .php) to recreate just because I want to change one damned link in the navbar. To hell, says I. To hell!

If you don’t remember, or never saw, or didn’t care, let me remind you of the chaos and the wailing that ensued when the masses heard that their favorite blogging tool, ~three years in the making, was going corporate. Every over-linked, cat-picture-laden blog ran by a thirty-year old housewife who thinks you care about her child’s day at preschool ran on about how unfair and not cool this was, and in case you didn’t get the message, trackbacked to eighty other pages where similar folk raised the bar for petty net feuds. It was all silly, and called so by myself; the Trotts said the day would come when MT was no longer free, and besides, unless my head is in some weird, alternate universe right now, I’m using a free version of MT.

Anyway, along with the wailing and the gnashing of teeth came alternatives, one of which was WordPress. I converted not out of protest, like most did, but because this new system allowed for no rebuilding, a practice which had taxed my webspace providers in the past. I jumped at the chance to migrate my posts over to the new system.

Unfortunately, while you can migrate from MT to WP, you can’t go back the other way, so when the Trotts integrated dynamic publishing into MT, I couldn’t take all my wonderful writing and pour it back into Movable Type. So I held off until the day I would hit the RESET button on my blog, which, last I checked, is today.

So let’s all welcome back MT to the exit 670 family, and remember that once upon a time this whole house of crap was held up on wooden stilts that said “Blogger.com” on the side. *shudder*

(Ed. note 2/24/08: back on Wordpress.  Yup.)

Once again, exit670.com’s reset button has been HIT.

This is the third time I’ve wiped clean the slate of the website, the fifth if you count the previous incarnation (peterstork.com.) Why, WHY, you ask, as if I care to answer. I do.

The rate of new content had slowed to a crawl, and I decided to reboot and make a concerted effort to blog much more often. In addition, this gives me the chance to cheat — I can repost older posts as Classic exit 670, fooling newer readers while simultaneously infuriating older ones. Two birds. One puny stone.

As part of the fun that is version seven, or whatever we’re on, I’m pledging – nay, hoping – to blog at least one post per day for the next (here’s the part with the synergy with the url) 670 days. (Ed. note 2/24/08: HA!) Will many of these posts be Classic exit 670? Oh, you bet your sweet assorded bippies they will. But tons of new stuff will emerge as well, including but not limited to movie reviews that make you cower in fear. Bring it.