Category: Blogs & Blogging

One of the attractions of moving to WordPress has been easier access to NewMexiKen’s statistics. For example, these are the search strings bringing vistors here during the past few hours:

tiger woods’s alma mater
omarosa, birthdate
omarosa nude
jackie gleason
Tiger Woods’s alma mater
American Indian political or artist/cultural issues
blog julia roberts
popcorn article ny times august 19th, 2005
resell value on indian ford
lyrics to prison wisdom by cuban link
Tiger Woods’s alma mater
wovoka
disney-iwerks drawings
put me in coach by Creedence Clearwater Revival
cheeseburger in waikiki
omarosa naked
DATE OF BIRTH JESSICA CANSECO
“eagle feathers” “stored in”
lisa wells voluptuous
Las Vegas 29th in 2004 Population Estimates
songs about Henry Knox
harold bloom and cormac mccarthy and toni morrison
is there a place named after neil alden armstrong
losing “147 pounds”
Saint-Exup
fred wehba
omarosa
chip douglas
Robert Redford+New Mexico
1979 gasoline prices
used wedding dress
omarosa playboy
NINA VON STAUFFENBERG
famous couple blogs
“william and Mary Indians

Tiger went to Stanford. And will Omarosa ever go away?

NewMexiKen blogs. You comment.

It’s a partnership.

NewMexiKen continues to play with the software and design of the weblog formerly known as NewMexiKen. (The Betty Ford Clinic denied my application for treatment.)

For some time I had wanted to migrate from Movable Type (cumbersome) to Word Press (efficient, “free and priceless”). That has been done and — no small thing — the 5,844 permanent links seem to work. There remains the cleanup — developing an attractive design, fixing the remaining conversion bugs. From Blogger to Movable Type to Word Press — NewMexiKen has seen the inside of a lot of software.

So much for my hobby; now yours — cruising the web looking for “a little bit about a lot of things” and photos of The Sweeties. I may see something so fascinating it just demands to be blogged about, but I doubt there will be any resumption of full-time blogging anytime soon.

NewMexiKen began two years ago, August 4, 2003.

More than 5,800 entries later, it’s time to move on.

I’m certain I will miss blogging — miss it a lot — but going at it day-in-and-day-out is no longer rewarding. And, for me, it’s better to stop altogether than it would be to continue by posting entries once in awhile.

Thanks for more than 400,000 visits and nearly 1.5 million page views.

The NewMexiKen archives will be around for awhile.

newmexiken at gmail dot com

NewMexiKen remains a blogging slacker but fortunately Functional Ambivalent has some good stuff here and here.

Sunday’s New York Times had an article — The New Nanny Diaries Are Online — written by the employer. Here — Instructions to the Double: Sorry to Disappoint You — the blogging nanny responds.

Everything NewMexiKen did today related to blogging software turned into a crisis. When all was said and done, the site was right back where I began and I was relieved to do that.

If anyone knows how to migrate to Word Press or some other CMS while maintaining the validity of nearly 5,800 Movable Type links, I’d like to hear from them.

242,764 visits to NewMexiKen in the first six months of 2005; 45,049 in June.

Most visitors arrive at NewMexiKen via Google and Ron Howard’s brother still acounts for more than 4% of the searches.

There were visits from 124 countries during June.

NewMexiKen stumbled across this nice little poem at Random Thoughts:

My daughter’s picture is on “Hot or Not.”
She has a zillion votes.

Verdict’s in.
They think she’s hot.

She’s not dressed provocatively.

I think it’s her smile.
The twinkle in her eyes.

She’s not hot. She’s my baby.

Meanwhile, I feel my fanny turning to cottage cheese.

Not feeling overly hot.

Except when there’s a flash.

Or two.

Remember to take the herbals.

The Mossberg Solution reviews the leading three free blogging services and concludes:

Microsoft’s MSN Spaces did the best job of performing these tasks in a way that was organized and self-explanatory. Yahoo 360 was almost as easy, but it tries to tie in the use of too many other Yahoo services. Blogger.com has a long way to go until it becomes as easy to use as the others.

in the land of humidity (and green…and grandchildren…and grandchildren’s parents), NewMexiKen has returned to the Land of Enchantment.

Give me a day and I’ll see if I can get this blog back in gear.

Or not.

NewMexiKen is taking today off. Last year for May 20 I did all the birthdays and some other good stuff. Take a look.

NewMexiKen knows I’m not the only grandpa blogger, but I’ll wager I’m the only grandpa blogger whose dad makes comments on the blog.

but Norman Mailer blogging is an event.

I think he’s right, by the way. The Newsweek business has the look of a dirty trick. “Let’s see, we take out CBS, then Newsweek …”

Visits to NewMexiKen have dropped dramatically in the past ten days as all of Ron Howard’s brother’s fans have finished their finals and gone home from college for the summer. Not having any studying to avoid, surfing the internets is of no use to them. Like Wal-Mart I’ve been living off my low-rent clientele and now that hard times are here my numbers are slipping.

What shall I do? Wal-Mart is considering reducing the clutter in its stores. Would that work for NewMexiKen?

The Huffingandpuffington Post — the ultimate blogger. Go ahead, click!

The Huffington Post — word is it got 8-million hits its first day.

A new group blog, The Huffington Post, now just hours old.

On the front page:

Arianna, of course.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall
Mike Nichols
John Cusack
Ellen DeGeneres
Harry Shearer
Laurie David
and more.

The home page, the monthly archives and the category archives are all paginated now, with nice little page number links at the bottom.

NewMexiKen wants to thank Chad Everett of Don’t Back Down for his help with this. First, his discussion of how to paginate in Movable Type was the first I ever understood. And, when I got stuck, he personally came to my aid. I might have figured the code out on my own, but not in this lifetime. So, if you ever need consulting for computer, network, programming or security, be certain to consider Mr. Everett.

As frequent visitors can tell, NewMexiKen is playing with the underlying code to change the appearance, etc.

That, however, is not responsible for the problems you may be having accessing the site. NewMexiKen’s provider is having server problems.

For my part, I apologize for any inconvenience. Maybe they will resolve their problems and I will quit creating mine.

In April there were 49,974 visits to NewMexiKen from 35,710 different IP addresses in 120 countries, Guam and Puerto Rico.

January….25,276
February…33,781
March…….39,341
April………49,974

Last April there were 3,272 visits to NewMexiKen.

NewMexiKen is home from California now so the changes to these pages can resume (because I enjoy figuring them out and this blog is my hobby).

The home page now has the most current 30 entries. At the bottom a link will take you to earlier entries — on subsequent pages links take you either forward or back. If you had a mind to, you could read the whole 175 pages of NewMexiKen (as of this entry) one page at a time.

The date of each entry is displayed with the other metadata at the bottom of the entry. Entries are no longer organized under a date header (except in the date archives).

I like the idea of petroglyphs as a logo for NewMexiKen — after all, what were many petroglyphs other than one person communicating with whomever came along, just like a blog — but I don’t like the photo I have for this purpose. So the banner will change.

We thank you for your support.

NewMexiKen pretty much takes the week off from blogging and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were the four busiest days ever around here.

I find this troubling.

Not blogging much.

NewMexiKen is visiting one of The Sweeties
and the people she lives with for a few days,
a place with redwoods in the yard.