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If you’re seeing this entry, then you are looking at the new version of Jpatrickm.com. This whole week I have been migrating all of my sites and my client’s sites over to a new hosting server. It’s been quite an intensive project. I figured while I was at it, I might as well switch Jpatrickm over from Movable Type to WordPress. WordPress comes with built in scripts to import all of the Movable Type entries and comments so it’s actually a pretty quick process. The most difficult part is just moving all of the design settings over because the CSS style sheets are not compatible and need to be modified from scratch. I’ve spent considerable time using both Movable Type and WordPress and for the past year or so I have maintained several blogs on each platform. My preference, however, has slowly shifted over to WordPress as my top choice for blog software. I have several reasons, which I may write about later in a different post. I’m sure there are many people with many opinions on blog software but for me I just think WordPress is a better fit. It’s also the platform I recommend to my clients and is much much quicker and easier for me to get them up and running. If anyone has any questions on these blog applications or on getting your own blog setup, feel free to shoot a note.

Anyway, over the next week or so, I will shift the design to one that more closely resembles the old version. I really like the colors and layout of this Firefox template so I figured it would be a good placeholder for now while I integrate the two designs.

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I posted my last 2 entries from my mobile phone using Flickr.com. Aside from the crappy picture quality of my camera phone, the Flickr service is actually pretty cool. To create the entire entry, I just emailed the photo to a preset Flickr email address and Flickr took care of the rest. It automatically posted the image to my Flickr account and created the corresponding entry on this blog using the email subject as my blog post title and the email body as the text along with the picture. It’s really cool for impromptu posting on your blog.

Anyway, not long after I posted that second Flickr entry, we entered the mountains and I lost cellular service, thereby ending my short-lived Flickr post weekend. But I’m happy to say I’m back from our camping and hiking adventure and I have the rest of the pictures now posted for you to enjoy.
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Flickr Post Weekend, Mountain Range, originally uploaded by Jpatrickm.

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Flickr Post Weekend, On The Road, originally uploaded by Jpatrickm.

I’m posting this through my Flickr account so not sure how it will come through. It’s 10 AM and we’re on the road heading north to the mountains.

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We’re heading off to go camping and hiking this weekend. I’m not sure exactly where we are going but it’s like 14,000 feet high and has a glacier. My roommates are the official trip planners, I’m just going along to complain and whine. We leave Friday and come back on Sunday. It’s been a long time since I’ve been out camping… hell it’s been a long time since I’ve left the house actually, so it should be a fun weekend. I’m looking forward to getting some sweet pictures. You can see a few shots of where we are going on this website – Palisades Glacier Trail.

Dylan and I had a little online discussion about our upcoming travels which you can read over at his blog, Dagzilla.com. I wasn’t aware he was going to post the conversation, but it’s quite funny none-the-less.

See you on the other side…

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