I’m trying out Bee, which is a blog posting application by Adobe. I tried ScribeFire, but it added a “powered by ScribeFire” advertisement at the bottom of my posts.

Recently I came across this blog entry, by one of the authors of WordPress, that mentions a site with some serious coding that uses WordPress as part of the backend. It also calls WordPress a “framework” — that may be a step too far. But I guess that others are also onto the idea that you can integrate a good old fashioned engineered website with WordPress.

Oh, at some point I will figure out what pings, trackbacks, etc mean in the WordPress bloggy world.

I have been using Google Analytics as my preferred tool to obsessively monitor blog traffic. In the first three weeks of blogging, I have been surprised at the international appeal of my blog. First I became fashionable on the continent and in India and China, but more recently my runaway appeal has crossed the channel to the British Isles. Of course I am popular back home too…though not so much on the west coast, as of yet.

I will keep you posted on further progress, and inform you when my reach extends to all seven continents. Since Google Analytics does not show Antarctica, I hereby christen Greenland to take its place (especially since it looks so big on the map).

The charlesdietrich.com website has gotten a new look. I expect to asymptotically approach the ideal template, so there are future changes in store. However, I think this is a big improvement. Though not as big as an improvement as the previous change, from the WordPress default theme to the Connections theme…ah, asymptotes!

The current theme is equiX, with a few customizations. There’s a blog that I visit sometimes that uses this theme, so I hope I don’t look too similar.

The image is a current screenshot from my research project…I’ll probably use a photograph later, like I did for Julie (I designed the website, but the excellent photo is courtesy of Luke Walker).