As some of you know, the Thinklings is a blog that I webmaster. It had been down last week but was brought back and converted to WordPress.
There are two other blogs in the Thinklings domain – one, which is still down, is Jared’s Mysterium Tremendum (coming up soon, Rod – don’t lose hope!). The other is Katherine’s Blog, which I have converted to Bloo. Bloo version 0.17a, to be exact. This is basically the version I’m running here, with a slight modification on how settings are loaded. I will be upgrading both blogs to 0.17 proper when I get it done.
I haven’t, um, exactly communicated this new development to Katherine yet. 🙂 But she’s a good friend and hopefully will be ok with me using her as a guinea pig.
The expansion of Bloo across the blogosphere has begun! [Bill adopts a Darth Vader pose . . . ]
i know it’s a simple typo, but darth vadar sounds like some european wedding planner like franck from father of the bride.
Did I spell Darth Vadar wrong?
yeah, it’s vader… with an “e”
so to me it reads.. darth vuhdahr! just my processing of it!
d’oh . . .
I have fixed.
Didn’t you adopt a Vader pose when you came up with the word tag meme? Do you do this often? Is there a support group that can help you?
“Is there a support group that can help you?”
[Bill attempts one of those Vader telepathic choke-things on BWS for making such an insolent suggestion.
Her Marine husband comes over and snaps Bill like a twig]
Man! The neighbor’s kid was trying one of those Vader choke things on me today too! What’s up with that?!
That is a little strange . . .
I was just kidding, of course. I would never try one of those choke things on a lady.
Blo, on the other hand . . .
Hey Jewel,
Why not put thinklings on bloo too? I’m sure you have a good reason for not doing it yet. I was just wondering what it was?
Phil
Well, Kat’s blog is a lot simpler than Thinklings – there are a lot of features of Thinklings that I haven’t gotten coded in Bloo yet. Maybe someday. . .
Hey Beel, I’m about to make the jump to WordPress, and I wondered if there was anything you ran into that you had to fiddle with? My main question that I’m trying to get handled right now is the database server name, which if I’m guessing, is “localhost”. Does that ring a bell?
Cheerios,
DeS
Hey Damon
Are you converting a blog? Or just setting up a new one?
WordPress install is one of the easiest I’ve ever seen. You should be fine. “localhost” works almost all the time – I’ve had one server (where Thinklings is now) that only worked if I specified the server, but that might have been a special case – every other install I’ve done “localhost” works.
Let me know if you have any questions.
I’m going to set it up fresh, then (try to) import my blogspot blog over to it. Seems fairly straightforward according to the FAQ’s I’ve read.
My next big project is going to be getting Gallery 2.0 running. That promises to be a bear…
Cool – hopefully your import will work well.
Gallery 2.0? I’ve done Gallery before (can’t remember the version) – that’s some cool software :0)
Worked like a charm…the import from blogspot took a little canoodling, but it’s all there, except for the pictures I had embedded. I’ll deal with that later, but go check it out:
http://blog.damonsbunch.com