Miscellaneous Updateture…

This is just a general “state of the blog” note—I’ve made lots of changes visible recently; please feel free to leave comments on this post if you have thoughts regarding any of them…

Look and feel is somewhat improved with the addition of the “Smartypants”:http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/smartypants.php “DoubleSpace”:http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/doublespace.php and “Textile 2.0 (beta)”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/001602.php plugins for MovableType. These are responsible for curly quotes, giving me back my whitespace between sentences (what can I say; I’m old school), and adding some nifty simplified markup to posts, respectively.  The body font was changed because “comic sans” looked goofy with smart quotes. 

The “related posts” feature on individual entry pages, which sometimes gives some odd results, has been joined by a “related posts from WayPath”:http://www.waypath.com/mt/archives/000014.html feature which also sometimes gives some odd results, just odd results from elsewhere.  Sometimes they’re insightful, other times they’re just amusing, but they always tend to be interesting.

Basic integration of “Gallery”:http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php into the site to serve as an “image gallery”:http://www.nonliteral.com/gallery is complete; now I’ve got to add some more pictures.  At least it brightens up the pages a little.

Last but not least, this is a test post being made from the new “SharpMT 1.1 beta 2”:http://www.randyrants.com/archives/000253.asp posting tool for MovableType… It seems to support all of the extended MovableType fields, but I can’t seem to find a spellcheck yet… It definately looks like it’s moving in the right direction, however.

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