The meaning of life and all that
Huh? What? Eachman who?
You are looking at the new prolific.org, now known as eachman.com (as in 'Each man kills the thing he loves'.) It isn't ideal yet (there's a lot of stuff just plain wrong behind the scene), the design is a reworking of someone else's template and WordPress is a little, well, let's say 'primitive' compared to MT, but I'm going to go with it for now. Maybe I'll switch back, maybe I won't.
I suppose this is my birthday present to myself. Turning 42 is different from turning 41 or 43. I've been looking forward to it with some trepidation, for some time now. Having had some health scares, though none too seriously, in recent months, didn't help. (And, do, I, like, the, comma, just, a, little, too, much?)
(Here's where I thought I'd do a 'read more' thingy, but there seems to be no obvious way to do that in WordPress.)
My mum died when she was 42 (in 1975... 30 years ago) and so reaching this age is somewhat of a milestone. I'm not sure what to think. Maybe I want some answers, but I'm not sure what the questions are. All I know is, I'm not half as grown up as she was at the time. At least I think I'm not, but how I remember her is not necessarily the way she really was.
Enough gloom. Time for a nice cup of tea and a hearty: 'happy birthday to me'.
Update 1: Trust Dreamhost to 'plan' downtime the day I move my site. (Had to move at least one of my sites away from Pair, since we're bursting at the seams there.)
Update 2: My laptop arrived this morning, and yes, Dutch OS. Grr.
Update 3: So, has anyone ever moved their WordPress site to Pivot?
26 Responses to 'The meaning of life and all that' (imported from WordPress)
1. Hg says:
April 19th, 2005 at 12:02 am
Happy Birthday!
42 is, of course, The Answer (to life, the universe and everything).
2. Hg says:
April 19th, 2005 at 12:32 am
And now I’ve actually read the title of this post.
3. Rachel says:
April 19th, 2005 at 12:34 am
Happy Birthday, Caroline.
The new site looks great!
4. bernhard says:
April 19th, 2005 at 12:58 am
Happy Birthday!! don´t be too pensive about it, just enjoy! all the best to you….b.
5. Koen says:
April 19th, 2005 at 12:59 am
Happy Birthday!
6. eric says:
April 19th, 2005 at 1:09 am
Merry B’Day Von B!
7. Marcel says:
April 19th, 2005 at 4:16 am
Happy Birthday! Anyone sung for you yet?
8. Caroline says:
April 19th, 2005 at 4:31 am
I’m afraid not. By the way, comments don’t seem to work if you use Norton Anti-Virtus. Something to do with headers.
9. Low says:
April 19th, 2005 at 5:50 am
What the- Hey!
Feli! And yay for the new blog thingie! Yay!
10. Chris says:
April 19th, 2005 at 5:51 am
Whoa! Happy birthday and congrats on the revamp! Looking forward to see what you do with it!
11. allen says:
April 19th, 2005 at 5:56 am
Happy birthday…
WP is nice… I find it easier than MT. As for the more feature… there is. Are you on a Mac? I found that for some reason the WP control panel when using Safari doesnt show the editing buttons. Or at least my version doesnt :) I’ve been using it for awhile.
12. ecritures says:
April 19th, 2005 at 6:44 am
hieperdepiep…happy birthday to you!
13. Caroline says:
April 19th, 2005 at 6:47 am
I’m not on a Mac.
After two days with WordPress I’ve decided that it’s miles away from where I’d like my CMS to be. But I had another look at Pivot, which now looks absolutely brilliant (I’ve toyed with it several times over the last few years, but never found it suitable to my needs. It is now.) So now I’m going to have to port this design - or something similar - from WordPress to Pivot.
14. Proenski says:
April 19th, 2005 at 6:49 am
Happy birthday and “proost”!
15. Herb says:
April 19th, 2005 at 6:52 am
Happy birthday!
16. heather says:
April 19th, 2005 at 7:09 am
happy birthday. you’ve got a ten day head start on me, but i too soon shall know the meaning of life. please extend my apologies to the neigbhours.
17. Simon says:
April 19th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Happy Birthday :).
18. Milo says:
April 19th, 2005 at 11:17 am
Happy birthday + internet domain identity changeover!
19. Stephen says:
April 19th, 2005 at 11:41 am
WordPress on the Mac does NOT show the editing buttons.
All you have to do to have ‘read more’ functionality is to put the more tag in your post where you need it.
And you’ll be good to go.
20. Lars says:
April 19th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Congrats! Very gutsy, switching not only designs but also domains. :D
21. Gordon says:
April 19th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
Who the…?? What the…?? When did I click that…??
OHHHHH
Happy Birthday indeed - looking very smart already (in fact so smart that I’m kinda jealous… dammit)
22. ModSue says:
April 19th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Gelukkige Verjaardag!
I hope that came out correctly….
23. Rogue says:
April 19th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
Happy Birthday, Caroline. Funny things, birthdays, but I hope that you have a great year.
24. George says:
April 20th, 2005 at 1:55 am
Congrats!
25. frédéric says:
April 20th, 2005 at 2:34 am
Congratulations on the birthday and the switch
26. Jason says:
April 20th, 2005 at 11:33 pm
Happy Caroline Day!
I know all about the switching domains bit.