Well, we’re starting to feel a little more settled-in, now. And, meantime, I wanted to give you a closer look at the spinning I did with Kim yesterday. Because this IS primarily a knitting blog, after all! I promise I won’t be talking about the rigors of my digital move for much longer. I DO seem to have lost a lot of subscribers, though. I’m assuming that part of that is because I did this over a weekend, but if those of you who followed me here want to mention the new home for anyone who skimmed past that post in their Bloglines, well, that would be neighborly of you!

What do you think of the new look?

There are still things to do. The e-mailing comments thing, thankfully, is fixed (though how, I still don’t know, since I didn’t change anything.) I haven’t yet tackled what I need to do to make sure all the internal links–and external links–pointing to the old, Typepad blog now come here (because, frankly, that looks awfully complicated for me). And, if any of you programming mavens out there understand what needs to be done in these instructions, please let me know. Ideally, I want to shut down the Typepad blog altogether, but I am SO not a programmer, so the whole bottom half of those instructions might as well be greek. And, my God, all those picture links, too . . . yikes!

Frankly, I’m pretty impressed that I was able to follow the instructions for getting everything over here in the first place. (For the record, that was 1,185 posts since Jan. 15, 2005.) I’m feeling pretty chuffed, too, that I not only designed a new header which goes with this theme, but even figured out how to get a Favicon up and running. (That’s that tiny little blue “CM” box that should be showing on the title bar in your browser.) There’s a widget for being able to subscribe to comments, too, in case I get some hot, fascinating, informative conversation going on that you don’t want to miss. I don’t know how often any of you will really want to take advantage, but it was a cool little new toy for the blog, so….

But, really, that’s enough for one weekend, huh? I think Chappy likes the new setup, too, although he’s been spending his internet time elsewhere lately . . . see? He was a guest-blogger over at his Grandma’s blog.

Oh, and in other news, let me point you to the comments in this military blog at the Rocky Mountain News. The soldier who was writing it was killed this week in an ambush. It’s worth noting, though, because he had written a posthumous blog post to be published in the event of his death, and it is a truly moving thing to read. What an eloquent good-bye.

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