Wow! That sure made me depressed.
So I've been working on the structure for the new blog and what I want to do in the coming months.
I'm going to do an experiment and split up my content and then aggregate it on 1 main index page.
There will always be Plastic Crack and it will now be a totally Transformers-centric blog for my collection and high quality internet-approved and Republican-vetted opinions.
I'm going to resurrect "Paper Crack - A Comics Blog" since that was always intended for a completely different audience. Though now that the boxes upon boxes have been sold off, it'll just be off and on about new crap. I'm going to ask Giga, JayKNotRowling, and MisterTerrific to submit some comic content too.
There will be "Under Jamie's Kilt - A Doctor Who Blog" where I'll do my Doctor Who stuff.
And then finally "Homeworld Bound - They Came From Another Directory On This Server" where I'll blog about Micronauts, get around to reviewing and documenting each issue of the Marvel comic, and focus my hunting down ancient Micronaut toys.
I may do a "When Is Getter Robo Not Getter Robo?" someday too if I start actively going after Shogun Warrioes.
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I was looking through my Flickr galleries for comic stuff and a massive wave of depression hit me.
I should never have sold some of that.
I can't believe I forgot to remove my ROMs, my Infinity, Inc., and most certainly my All-Star Squadrons.
In the mood to be free of the boxes I just wanted it all gone and wasn't really thinking at all.
Nala, think i've asked before but how do you feel about reading comics on the PC ?
I've currently got the entire run of Shogun Warriors and Micronauts on torrent download if you're interested ?
Ok, you HAVE to tell me how you got that to aggregate like that. Seriously, I've been trying to get something nicer than the crap I have now for ages but can never find a good solution. Feel free to email some explanation if you don't want to clutter up the comments.
I've got this Google widget thing going on on Joshmiller.net's homepage (offline due to router issues) but I hate it and it's inconsistently ugly.
bruticus: I would so love them... especially the Micronauts!
Ramen Junkie: Well... that's just a framework mock up in Dreamweaver.
I'm going to use my one MT installation to produce the 2 other blogs. (Papercrack exists in the same database but has been defunct since last year.)
There's a MT default plug-in called MultiBlog that will allow me to incorporate the other feeds into Plasticcrack's main index. Or so I think. I've only just started exporing it.
If it doesn't work, index will just become a static launch page and will just point to the 4 blogs.
However, if I can figure out a way to use the main database to still produce the other content using categories, and suppress say Micronauts in Plasticrack, I may just do category feeds or something.
Nala, here's the statistics...
Shogun Warriors, 20 issues, 110.20MB
Micronauts vol 1, 59 issues, 2 annuals, 535.28MB
Micronauts, The New Voyages, 20 issues, 150.49MB
Shogun Warriors has already finished downloading...
Don't know if they're full runs of the comics as i've never read them but let the others finish and i'll make arrangements with you to get them to you somehow...
May be an idea to grab a 1GB Flash Drive and post it to you...
Let me know if you figure something out. If I need to push MT on my server, even just for the main page, I will. I'd love to be able to aggregate all of my blogs into one layout, bonus if say, it included the first 200 words of the first article of each.
I've seen a few ways to push multiple blogs together into one feed but not separately.
For what it's worth, I think I came up with a solution that works for me using Wordpress.
Here's a template of what I've built so far as a potential new home page.
http://joshmiller.net/testground/
Nala, I think your new look looks really cool. I'm eager to see the results!
And flattered to be asked to write for your blog. I'll have to get crafty.
And sympathy on your papercrack space issues. I seem to have done the same thing with my Micronaut comics too. This bitTorrent business may save me.
But like kids overwhelmed by toys at Christmas, our comic collections filling many boxes often goes unappreciated. You don't know what you got 'til it's gone.
The new site design looks nifty.