January 1, 2007
Happy 2007!
It is hard to believe that it is a new year already (and that I have to return to work tomorrow). While I did have some great family-and-friends-time, I also spent quite a bit of free time trying out and updating my technology.
For the first time, I have departed from Movable Type as a platform and started playing around with WordPress. Not on this blog, but on another site I run for planetarium educators called Planetarium.Net. I have neglected the site itself for a couple of years but there is a vibrant email list that I have moderated for 8 years now that has carried most of the community activity for planetarium and astronomy educators all over the world. I have wanted to play with WordPress and updating this site was the perfect opportunity. So far, I am very impressed. I am not quite ready to give up on MT, I still like it quite a bit for this site and need some shake-down time to see how WP differs.
I am way too late to take advantage of the "2-dot-0" hype but I still temporarily changed the name of the site to Planetarium.Net 2.0 just for kicks. Since it is 2007, perhaps I should have changed it to 4.0...? As this little experiment unfolds, I will document my experience with WP here.
I also upgraded my browsers to the latest versions: IE Version 7.0.5730.11, and Firefox 2.0.0.1. And installed Pinnacle Video Studio 10.7 (which was a very nice gift!).
Thoughts on these and other upgrades later this year.
Posted by Rovy at January 1, 2007 6:29 PM