Well, 10 years of blogging as a brain-damaged refugee, has had interesting repercussions. Lots of grammatical “issues”. But the biggest issue was about 50% of the images posted had links back to the webpage. As I’m trying to migrate all this to another platform, that was a problem. Asking how this might be done produced less than no response. So, after the success I had converting the Mealie stuff, I headed over to ChatGPT to see if it could craft a python routine to strip the data. The challenge was creating a script that would delete a complete character string that began and ended with the same data, with different…

That was interesting. Lots of malformed stuff inserted over the years. Photos, text, you name it. Hopefully now, it’s a bit better behaved than before. The WordPress importer for Bludit errors out when there isn’t a featured image in a post. So a goodly amount of time was spent inserting those. Firstly from the image library already uploaded, to an AI do-hicky provided as a “trial” by JetPack (one of the WP add-ins) to finally an entity called “Pexels Free Photos”. The AI trial was kinda cute, but it only gave you 10 “requests” most of which I used up on one image. I’m definitely still getting my head around…

Greetings fair reader. I’m in the middle of a migration from WordPress to either Bludit or Publii. Both tools are static site generators, Bludit resides at the website, meaning I interact with it directly, kinda like WP. Publii is a stand-alone application that uploads the website to the website. In the early days I used something called Thingamablog for the site, which was not dissimilar to Publii. You can see some of that here on the Wayback Machine. Currently, I’m evaluating both systems. Each has it’s plusses and minuses. The challenge, at this point, is getting all the WP stuff migrated over. Each have a plethora of themes to pick…

It’s become painfully obvious, that motivation to continue this blogosphere has drastically diminished. Dunno why, but the motivation to do this has left the building. I’m a bit surprised at this, but retirement has manifested itself in some interesting ways. Contributing to the problem is that WordPress has become a gargantuan beast that, frankly, I’ve got no desire to slay. It’s become large and cumbersome, and fraught with issues at every corner. When I started doing this in WP some 15 years ago, it wasn’t too bad, but now it’s just gotten out of hand. WP is now a developer’s tool, not a blogging tool. I’m going to leave the…

Greetings all, My apologies for the lateness of this post. Don’t really have a reason… It’s been a year of settling into our new lives here in Williamsburg. Discovery, learning, adventure. It’s definitely been a slower pace. Truth be told, we’ve gotten very comfortable with it. Willliamsburg is an interesting city. In actuality, it’s a fairly small community, with the James City County population being some 80k in the last census. I suspect it’s increased since then, but definitely not by a large percentage. The one thing that Williamsburg is, is a tourist community. Between Colonial Williamsburg (CW), and Busch Gardens, the city/county population enlarges significantly during the summer months….