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When I switched my blogging platform over to Drupal, I couldn't get the comments transfered over in some automated or easy way. So, to make up for that, I'll list here some of the people who have left comments in the past and their URLs.

I actually still have all the comments (all 47 of them), but I don't feel like manually adding them back in.

Anyway, thank you everyone for leaving comments on my blog. I'll try really hard to not switch blogging systems on a whim and lose all the comments next time.

• Novac - The Smarmy Carny
• Jon Haeber - Vivre La Difference
• Think Mojo
• Anna - Quixotik
• Shane Shepherd
• Ramblings of Silver Blue
• Games! Games! Games!
• Dave Lucas

I finally switched my blog over to drupal, which I've been wanting to do for a while, but it was difficult to transition over. Now I think I've done it. I'm guessing a lot of stuff will be broken, and some URLs won't work, but I should have it all sorted out within a week or two. I know some of the images aren't working, I'll try to fix those soon. Also, I couldn't import comments and trackbacks, but there's only about 50 of them. I was thinking about manually typing them in, or I might just forget about them. I'll see.

I'm happy to have finally made the switch because now I have more control over the site and I already understand how drupal works (for the most part).

Let me know in the comments on this post, or on my contact form if you find any problems on the site that I haven't already mentioned above.

I finally made it to post 300. I'm pretending this is a big milestone for my blog. Now I'll reflect back on the last 100 posts. It took a lot longer to get to post 300 than it did to post 200. I think that's a good thing. The quantity is down a lot, and hopefully the quality is up. If my stats are any indication, then I am getting better at this blogging stuff. I mean there's a bar graph of something, and over the past year the bars are generally getting taller than the previous months. So that's probably good. Unless it's a reverse bar graph that graphs bad stuff. What kind of graph does that though?

Post 200 still holds the top spot for my longest post. I hope I'll replace that spot with this post, but I won't try too hard. I'll just talk about some new things I'm planning on doing for this blog to remind me to do them, which is apparently what I also talked about in post 200.

In Post 200, I had just started using Technorati, and my rank was 1,119,625. As of today my rank is 432,850. So if I'm interpreting that correctly, that means I squashed 686,775 other blogs to get where I am today. I hope that also means I can date in a higher up league now.

Also in Post 200, I started using FeedMap. At that time there were 16 bloggers nearby. Now there's 24. Welcome to the party new guys.

I said in that post that I'd put a bio and photo on the sidebar, but I still haven't done that yet. Maybe soon. I actually took a recent photo, but all of my photos have been so boring lately. I like most of the classic photos of me. A bio always seems like the hardest thing to write.

Ok time to talk about some new things to add to this site. I started tweaking the design again. I have some ideas for moving things around and redoing some stuff. I moved some of the navigation to the top of the page. I'm thinking of moving all of the dumb Javascript things to the bottom of the page because they're making the page load more slowly. I'm thinking about finally getting rid of this table that makes the two columns, because that would make the page load faster since it wouldn't have to wait for the Javascript stuff. But I always remember all the hassles of floating the columns and how Internet Explorer does some crazy stuff with floats. So I'm really dreading doing that, but it can be done. Thinking about it gives me flashbacks of all the hard work on the Fieri DC site to get that to work right. Oh yeah, speaking of CSS fixes, I finally fixed that weird problem in IE where the links in the sidebar would get messed up when you scroll the page. For whatever reason I had margins and padding on the links, so IE interpreted that as "mess up the links when you scroll" instead of "add some spacing here." Is it a rule to not put margins and padding on an inline element? I'll have to look that up. Maybe I was just trying to do something dumb.

Back on topic, I have some ideas for new pages to do, and I think I'll finally write a decent about page. I'm thinking about pulling in some lists from Remember the Milk so I can just make lists of favorite stuff and then you'd see it here. But then I thought wow that's nerd overkill, and so I'll just make lists here the normal HTML way and try to remember to update them. Note to self: Stop making complex solutions to easy problems.

Just today I started using FeedBurner. It's a service that adds a bunch of features to my blog feed. So subscribe to this new feed and unsubscribe from my old feed. Sorry if that means you have to do extra work. I'll try to limit the changing of my feeds on a whim in the future.

I've been thinking for a while that most of my friends and family would probably read this stuff more if there was an easier way to get updates. The people I know in real life aren't into RSS and feeds and that sort of techy stuff. So for a while I've been looking at a decent feed to email solution. I tried Bloglet in the past, but it didn't work for me. But now that I'm using FeedBurner, they said to use the FeedBlitz service, so now there's an email subscription form on the sidebar. I think all you have to do is enter your email address in that text box, click subscribe, then fill the image verification thing (called a captcha) to prove that you're a human (because aliens and robots can't read that text), click submit, and then they send you an email to confirm your email address. You click on the link in the email to confirm, then you should be good to go. It only sends out emails daily, and only when I update my blog. The emails have the full contents of my posts, so I'm going to try that for while because I hate those teaser posts that some other blogs do. But you should still come visit my site and post comments.

So there you go. This post is probably more for me to be a reminder of things to do. So I'll try to make some more posts for you to make up for this one. Note to self: stop writing for me, start writing for you.

I missed the anniversary of my first blog post by a few days. Sorry about that. That should've warranted a huge post looking back at this past year to review my best posts and the quality of my posts and how I've changed and other stuff like that. I should give myself some awards too. I guess it's too late now, I'll just have to wait until next year. Or maybe I'll do the anniversary stuff for my 300th post. I think that's coming up soon. I hope I don't miss it. Maybe I should start writing better content instead of making up fake things to celebrate. Yeah I've been meaning to start writing good content for probably the entire year now. I'm going to start on that one day. Any day now.

Well, the karaoke party at killkaraoke.com is over. I hope everyone figured it out from my picture posted below. We relaunched killkaraoke.com with a new backend system so that now we can update and add new content more easily. Alex has been posting daily, so there's lots of good content to read already. It'll probably be a lot crazier and off the wall over there. I try to be a little more normal over here on my blog. Don't forget to subscribe to the killkaraoke feed.