Thursday Already?

My wife and I are back on our Frasier kick, and we're buying the DVDs of all the seasons as we get to them. Every single episode is funny.

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I fully moved maurymccown.com to the new grid server yesterday, so now I have access to all kinds of neato techie coolness and backends for my site. The first thing I did was install ExpressionEngine — the best dadgum content manager known to Mankind.

I'm now in the process of building my site pages for use with EE's template system, so for now, when you visit maurymccown.com, you're still viewing plain ol' HTML. I have most of it done, and I'm hoping to have it 100% complete this weekend.

After that, I begin the process of transitioning my weblog from here to there, so stay tuned.

I must say, also, how much I love using ExpressionEngine. It works beautifully with CSS, and the ability to assemble parts of a page with any number of code snippets is pure magic. For example, my page title, navigation, post area, background image, META, JavaScript calls — all of that info is reused on every one of my pages. So, instead of having to add that code to every page, I simply build a "header" page that stores and info, then when I build a new page, I just call "embed=site/header" and boom — all of the above is automagically inserted in the final page.

This makes it painfully simple to modify stuff like navigation bars, etc., because I only have to modify one page — and all my other pages get updated.

I love technology. =)

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Something is happening Monday that I'm totally looking forward to — but I can't say what it is just yet. Anyway, it's been almost 10 years in the waiting, and I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl with anticipation.

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I need to sell my Dual 2.0GHZ G5 tower. Any buyers?

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I can't decide if I want to have a cigar before practice, or my pipe with some Finck's Golden Cavendish. Decisions, decisions...

Posted by on 04/17 at 01:37 PM

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