This weekend I helped my cousin Jonathan Turley set up a new blog on WordPress and remembered my excitement the first time I created a blog that was all my own. Jonathan was having way too much fun playing with his site and watching a comment come in within 2 minutes of me turning on comments. I was jealous, thus this site.
I had Ruck Pad on Drupal last year, but I stopped having time to work on it and I let it go. I am not fully convinced I have the time to really dedicate to this site now, but we will see.
At the very least I will be able to rant about rugby and do some more personal posting.
Next step is to get control of ruckpad.com and use the WordPress masking to make this appear like it is hosted on that site. Plus figure out how to get a better theme.
As for the first family of blogging category on the sideboard, I believe it was my Uncle Jay who first coined that term when my brother Zack, Jay and myself attended the first Yearly Kos (now Netroots Nation). Jonathan (who is married to my cousin Leslie in case you were wondering about the familial connection) can now be considered part of that category. Some day my father will get hooked on tech blogging. Perhaps I can get the rest of my siblings to set up a site… It is addicting.
Welcome and I hope you enjoy the site and return often.
Uhh… in this non-Drupal world of wonder called “WordPress,” the menu on the side is not a “sideboard.” (Rolls eyes.)
It is called a “sidebar.”
It’s time you learned the language, my friend. You’re not in Drupal anymore.
By: Matt Ortega on August 23, 2007
at 5:24 pm
Haha. I do indeed need to learn the lingo. No idea why i called it a sideboard though. Widgets are blocks I got that much. The CMS isn’t bad but I wish there was greater flexibility on somethings out of the box. Once I have access to the CSS I will humming along.
By: julsrosen on August 23, 2007
at 5:51 pm
The back end is actually really nice. Although, I think they have strayed a bit since 2.0. Version 2.2 is a bit weird. They conflate blogroll categories with post categories, which is confusing, and makes no sense to me.
I like the versatility though.
By: Matt Ortega on August 24, 2007
at 12:30 pm