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Quick post before I run off to the bookstore (man, these next two weeks are going to go by soooo slowly). Just wanted to apologize to everyone for having been so bad with e-mails and contacts and whatnot lately! So here's the deal. Since I started the new blog, I'm not really sure who's with me here. (The old Blog of Wes is still getting new comments and referrals, but not so much over here -- probably because other folks' links haven't been updated yet. Speaking of links, don't worry if yours was on the old blogroll but hasn't made it over here yet -- I'm doing it as a gradual thing to make sure I keep up with the "maintenance" around here. Though I should mention that not all of the old links will be coming over -- namely because I want to maintain a lighter tone over here than I did when I first started the old blog, even though I'll continue to write serious entries from time to time.) There are folks who used to comment on the old blog who don't say too much these days (who haven't said much in a while, actually), and there are some newer folks (welcome!) who I'm not quite familiar with and would be interested in knowing a little more about. (more...)

I was pretty anxious about doing it, which is why I waited until now, but I actually found the experience to be fairly painless! And assuming it gets approved and everything went well, I should be getting a nice return in the neighborhood of $700! Which will come in handy since I recently handed in my 2-week notice at the bookstore. No, I haven't heard any good news from the company I interviewed with a couple of weeks ago, but I finally decided that I'd had enough of being treated like shit day in and day out for minimal wages while in the employ of a company that obviously doesn't appreciate its workers. Anyway, more on that later. (more...)

...that I didn't care if the old pages passed the XHTML validation check?

Yeah, I kinda lied. Granted, I have no intention of scanning and reposting every single post from the old blog again -- that would be overkill -- but I did go backwards from current posts through to fucking August correcting things as necessary to pass the bloody test. Turns out that it's not all of the posts that cause a problem -- just the ones in which I found it necessary to center something. Back on the old blog, I used divs to center things, which I didn't think was really a problem but then I didn't give a crap about XHTML validation over there because nobody stuck a bloody XHTML validation link up front and center and practically challenged me to face its various trials or forfeit my webmaster's honor. However, over here, things were (I think) also a little different. Whereas before I believe line breaks stayed line breaks, in WordPress two line breaks are converted to paragraph... you know what, let's not go into too much depth about it. Reading over those entries yesterday as I "fixed" them, I noticed just how much of my blog was discussion of its own design, or SC's design, or things I was planning for SC, etc. etc. So I won't go into that. Suffice it to say that I fixed a lot of the old posts and made 'em XHTML valid, and also figured out how to ensure that future posts will be valid as well. Alllllrighty then.

If I told you I spent the last 9+ hours, sitting here without food or drink, hell-bent on reposting every single post I ever wrote on the Blog of Wes until I'd fixed the aforementioned problem, would you believe me?

You should, because that's what I did. In addition to adding a few new categories and grouping the old posts accordingly, I also added (more...) links to a lot of the longer posts and GOOD GOD WHY THE FUCK DOES THE PHONE KEEP RINGING?!?!?!? I swear it must've rung like thirty times in the past five and a half minutes. Argh. Anyway, all of the old posts have been fixed. I don't know if they're XHTML compliant -- I didn't do that much with them -- and I don't bloody care, but they've been reposted and they're done. w00t.

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