You know, this morning I just realized that the tenth anniversary of my doing something in particular had came and went without my making a big deal about it….

I’m a little too freaked out about realizing this to actually write anything about it at the moment.

(Darin points out that this entry is just a little too cryptic — I started keeping an online journal 10 years ago. I’m rather astounded.)

By popular demand (okay, so there was my running bud Rob, and Otto, and mail from reader Richard just this morning…but if that isn’t a quorum I don’t know what is) I have returned a list of my current reading links to the sidebar.

To be technical, what actually happened was I exported a list of my links in OPML, which Rob took and used to write a Ruby script that would generate an HTML version of the list. So I guess you could say Rob has returned my list of links to the sidebar.

Be forewarned, however: since I only read stuff with RSS feeds now (which is why I have eight frackin’ million blogs now), I only have their RSS URLs. You should be able to find the original blog easily enough, however. The RSS feed thing is also why I let my Blogrolling subscription lapse. Which is why we have this homebrewed list instead of the automatic one Blogrolling provided pretty well.

No, I don’t really read all of these blogs every day. Some I haven’t read for a great long while. My current obsession is all things bicycle, which is why I have about forty thousand bicycle blogs. (A really interesting one to read is the complete archives of Oil Is For Sissies, about a grad student who starts out bike commuting to his university, and morphs into a hardcore anti-oil bicycle shop owner.)

Since an MT employee stopped by to say howdy and ask about some of the things I said in this entry, I figured it was only fair to post an entry about how MT’s been working for me since I got it, you know, working.

It’s great.

Seriously.

If you use MT, upgrade to 3.2 Especially with the licensing sale they have on. I guess I should get a license, if my brother-in-law’s singing group is still doing a blog. (Aha! They aren’t! I should get on the stick.) The integrated commenting features alone are worth it! I was very happy that MT-Blacklist gave me some control over comment spam, but MT really seems to have a handle on spam now. I haven’t seen one get in in the past couple of days, and I’ve deleted a hundred or so from the “Junk Comments” area.

I still think MT uses way too many resources building and rebuilding entries, so whenever I see the spinning wheel of doom, I do something else on the computer for a while. But I don’t think it’s that much worse than previous versions of MT. And considering the extra features? Totally worth it.

Just remember: if you do that upgrade? BACK ALL OF YOUR BLOGS UP BEFORE DOING A DARN THING. Seriously. Don’t make me cry.