monkinetic the blog

Ok, one of the features that I had on my old site was a site mailing list. You could subscribe to the mailing list and get blog posts in your inbox. I’ve had at least one person (you know who you are!) go on about how he would not subscribe to the RSS feed and wanted the mailing list functionality.

Corinne Dillingham, Seth’s wife and mother to Shane, who died in an accident several months ago (his memorial), posted an incredibly touching update on life after losing someone you love dearly.

I know, I know. I go into the video store and I can’t stomach all the romantic comedies on the shelves. And yet… You’ve Got Mail comes on TV and I’m sucked into the perky, quasi-intelligent-sounding, annoyingly cute language and plot-lines tailor-made to tug on my heart strings and leave me with that awful feeling that my life will never feel that good.

This is a test. Please ignore.

Well, after a brief hiatus I spent some more time working on an import script for this site. I have a test site setup where I finally, last night, got all my archived posts imported - 1729 posts over four years, and 587 comments. The last few features to add to the import script are custom fields identifying the source of the message (Conversant) and the date of the import, so that if i ever want to display that information I can.