Macroblogging ≠ Britney*

An enormous, warm, and somewhat nervous welcome to any visitors to the new site. It has been a long time coming. The heavily Slovenia-specific theme of www.isoglossia.com has been out of date, graphically and geographically, for nearly a year and a half. Dithering over the priorities of updating the theme versus content led to 17 months of neither, and finally an ill-advised update to the software that serves the content caused the theme to break down. At that point I had to decide: forget the whole thing, or start again from scratch?

I decided to go with the second option. Isoglossia lives on, just not with all of its original clothing and with what remains in a bit of déshabillé. All of the archives remain intact, and a link to it is featured prominently in a place of honor at the top of the left sidebar.

Isoglossia was nearly entirely handmade in the sense that Frankenstein’s monster was, its code pieced together over time from a generic theme’s body parts and various internet morgues, and it showed — I put personalized over aesthetic, and, clunky as it often was, I preferred ‘I made it, sort of’ to ‘it looks good and works’. That was done back in the days when I had a government job and Adam was not yet ambulatory, so there was plenty of time for me to dick endlessly with tiny shards of css without mastering a damn thing. It’s been nearly five years (!) since isoglossia launched, and the change in WordPress’s level of sophistication over that time amazes me. I am delighted to be using the Atahualpa theme by BytesForAll to power (and I do mean power) this new blog. It is astonishingly configurable, and as it’s early yet in what I hope will be another fruitful five years, don’t expect the site to remain in exactly its present form for long. I have a fairly long list of tiny but doubtless hour-consuming tweaks, changes, additions and so on to make to the site, which list will no doubt grow rather than shorten, thus endlessly feeding my tiny, tiny streak of OCD. Please write or comment if you are having any particular issues with it (the site’s rendering, not the OCD); I know, for example, that the header image is catastrophically cropped in Mobile Safari, and I would like to know what other failures are out there. They are probably legion, and I should have let the OCD win out and kept this on localhost in my laptop until 2012, but I wanted to let Come friendly bombs go live in time for the post just below this one.

For some insight into the name, see that post, and you might also considering reading the nascent About page, reachable by the tab at extreme upper left labeled ‘CFB WTF?’

The header image owes an enormous aesthetic debt to Banksy, with minimal (MINIMAL!) cooperation from Adam and Alek.

I hope you like it. I hope you like it all.

I love you!**

*Sorry. The headline refers to a saying we have in our house, “As over as Britney.”
** Magda! Oh, what the hell; all of you!