{"id":3139,"date":"2005-09-14T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T05:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/09\/14\/3139.html"},"modified":"2005-09-14T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T05:21:40","slug":"happy-birthday-journal-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/09\/14\/happy-birthday-journal-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I began this journal<\/a> four years ago. I appear to have posted about 2150 entries since then; averaging about one and a half entries a day over that whole period.<\/p>\n

(And as you can see from that first entry, I've drastically changed the interface over time. Apparently at one time I thought it was a good idea to put a series of full entries on a page, with the most recent entry at the bottom. Weird. I'm especially amused that in my second entry<\/a>, I wrote: \"I think most of the time I'll have a series of shortish entries each day rather than long ones.\" Hah!)<\/p>\n

I've been hoping that I could mark the occasion by pointing you to the new Movable Type version of the journal, but I've still got a couple things to iron out—mostly figuring out how permissions work for commenters. (The MT version is currently set up in its default configuration, in which all comments by unauthenticated users are held for approval. I want to look into its authentication mechanisms—I'm especially intrigued by this \"OpenID<\/a>\" thing—before I decide to turn that off; if it turns out to be easy and transparent for regular commenters to automatically authenticate on arrival (without having to do anything complicated or difficult), I might keep it this way. But most likely I'll decide that the pros of letting anyone post comments outweigh the cons.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I also need to set things up so that internal links to other journal entries within my journal continue to work; that's gonna be a little tricky. (I'm transferring all the old entries to the new system, of course. Though I suppose—I just thought of this—that I could just leave the old entries in place and start over with the new system. That would lose continuity, but it would mean that existing entries would keep their PageRank; the loss of PageRank is one of the things that makes me sad about converting. And it would mean I wouldn't have to write the slightly tricky PHP\/MySQL code to handle the redirection when someone follows an external link to an old entry.)<\/p>\n

So, probably a few more days before I open it up to the public. At which point I'll probably continue to post here for a little longer while people try out the new place and let me know about problems; then at some point I'll shut things down here and make the switch.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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