New Site Update (with WordPress, no less)

July 6, 2018 D. H. McKee

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Geez, you spend a little bit of effort upgrading the blog, switching architectures, updating images, importing some 18 years of blog posts … and you’re accused of not blogging for over a year.

A guy can’t win.

Seriously, though, the age of open-sourced Movable Type is over. It’s either pay five hundred bucks a year, or be stuck with slow, kludgey, out-of-date cgi and Perl scripts which don’t work well anymore with things like SSL or new technologies. So, I’ve moved to WordPress, like the rest of the world. Not bad. And it’s fast — much faster than I expected. Good module and plugin support. And I can insert code into headers, right from the dashboard.

Maybe this will get me blogging and writing again. Who knows?

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About This Site

As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.