I went ahead on djp’s advice and installed the Disqus plugin. This better go well–i’ve send >1500 comments from this site to be imported into their system. They should be showing up on the site soon. If it’s tomorrow morning and they’re still not here, I may turn it off.

In other news though–i was able to use ping.fm’s Custom URL support. It’s super simple–ping.fm posts to a URL of your choosing, and i’m extract the “method” and “message” fields, and drop new pings into a local db. my site pulls the info from the DB and gently formats it. it’s an include that i currently have dropped into my main site. Very fresh.

I also went ahead and threw the top navigation band on all pages of the site, for consistent navigation. i’m having fun treating my little personal joint as if it were a Real Site. First time in a while i’ve decided to be particularly calculated in how I manage things ’round here. Since I do “Enterprise development” during the day, the site’s a good way to get my fix of Regular Web Dev.

sheesh. lost jonmadison.com for a few minutes. This happened a few years ago with beats.com too for a spell. I do give it to my registrar that you get the 5 day “grace period” before the thing really goes kaput. i nearly thought someone else had grabbed it that quick. (i’ve seen it happen with plenty other domain names i would have thought it wouldn’t). anyway, a few hour later, i’m back for a few more years ;)

how rude! I wrote this the same night as having a fun day with the family in honor of my wife joy’s birthday!

happy birthday joy!

now…

i’m in the process of refactoring my sites. please bear with me :) i’ve been on Wordpress 2.0 for ages, and just upgraded last evening to 2.6! i’ve removed a buncha crufty plugins, and looking to start from scratch as far as building a theme. i’m in the process of building up my main page (www.jonmadison.com), to feature a bit of my photography, primarily.

i figured now’s as good a time as any, as i’m transitioning back to work in Seattle, my beloved city. I’ve missed working downtown, I’ve missed taking a bus to work, and i’ve missed the folk i’ve worked with. I’ll definitely miss those whom i’m leaving at the moment (can’t think of a group i’ve worked as closely with for so many hours at a time, in a lonnnng time), moving forward by going back and doing some forward work is very exciting. ;-)