kayray.org

I found a template that looked pretty good. The really plain one, obviously. I just changed the link colors from a lavender and blue scheme to the same green and blue as my former blog. And I changed the font from serif to sans-serif. (Kept the orange mouseovers, I kinda like them!) And I got rid of most of the forced uppercase. And now it’s looking pretty good! Oh, it was really really white so I just changed the background to a pale green. Let me know if it’s hard to see.

I must say… it is nice to be able to post without ssh’ing into the server. Although I want to hit esc : wq when I’m done writing.

I was poking around on the internets today and discovered that google’s blogger will let you publish a blog in your own webspace. So I thought I’d just try it out. I’ve been fiddling with it for a couple of hours and this is the result. I’m not happy with any of the templates but this one is fairly inoffensive, for now, and I can create a better one if I decide to stick with blogger.

Reasons to switch to an actual blogging system:

• Comments (or is that a drawback?)
• xml feed (has been requested by some of my readers)
• web-based posting
• email posting
• searchable
• something new to try

Reasons to stick with the old-fashioned, hand-coded-in-vi kayray.org:

• everything is entirely under my control
• all subpages match (can I do that with blogger? Maybe if I create a separate blog for each subpage, i.e. audiobooks…)
• I’m the only blogger on the planet who doesn’t use a System. kayray.org = special

Mmkay well I’m hungry. More later maybe.

August 4, 2006
I’m obviously having a hard time remembering to update this page :) I do remember to update my actual podcast, but this page just slips my mind. Sorry ’bout that. Anyway… the current podcast is Our Island Story, by H. E. Marshall. It’s a children’s history of England. Great stuff! Here are the first 6 chapters:

Introduction
The Stories of Albion and Brutus
The Coming of the Romans
The Romans Come Again
How Caligula Conquered Britain
The Story of a Warrior Queen

The only other thing you’ll miss if you’re not a podcast subscriber is the little message I sent out last week or so… here’s a link. Message from Kara, July 23, 2006. There. Now you’re all caught up. I hope you enjoy Our Island Story!