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Hi, This is My Old Blog

Nov 9, 2013 in Meta

Hi! Welcome to Juniorbird.com. My name’s Wade, and this was my blog from 2001-2013. It was about, well, me, and you can probably learn a lot about me and my journey over that decade-plus period. I’ve pulled out a few of the best entries below, covering a wide variety of topics. In the right column, you’ll find some travelogues I wrote on a few vacations I took over that time; I’m pretty proud of that writing as well. Enjoy!

You can find my new stuff at KaizenDad. Read on…

How to Archive Your Old Blog

Nov 8, 2013 in Meta

I’ve had this blog for twelve years, and during those twelve years it’s lived on many different platforms. It started on something home-baked, switched to Movable Type, then lived on Tumblr, and finally made its home on Wordpress. When it came time to wind things down, I knew I wanted everything in one place. This is how I made that permanent archive. Read on…

And the Story Goes On

Feb 1, 2013 in Meta

I started this blog years ago for an audience of 1: me. I thought my writing lacked creativity, so I decided to try some creative writing. Later, it lived and… Read on…

Oh Dear, Oh Wordpress!

May 4, 2012 in Meta

I switched to Wordpress a bit casually, maybe: I knew I didn’t want to stick with Tumblr, I knew I didn’t want to go back to good old Movable Type, and there… Read on…

Fidget

Apr 7, 2012 in Meta

So you may have noticed that I’ve posted a lot less lately. It’s not that I have less to say; it’s that I’m doing worse at saying it. Almost 2… Read on…

Introducing the 2010 Juniorbird.com Official T-Shirt

Dec 14, 2010 in Meta

In our house, we have three pets. You may have met some of them in these pages. We have the dog, who is very good:We have the cockatoo, who is… Read on…

New Commenting System

Jul 31, 2010 in Meta

After a little bit of trouble with Disqus — heck, a lot of trouble with Disqus — I’ve switched commenting over to IntenseDebate. It looks like IntenseDebate offers some spiffy… Read on…

Business is Slow

Mar 21, 2009 in Meta

You may have noticed I haven’t posted here a lot recently. Umm, sorry. I do feel bad; I miss my old digs here! But, you see, I think there’s a lot conspiring against ol’ Juniorbird.com. Part of this is changes in my life; part is changes in the Web. I have a feeling there need to be some changes around here soon, and I’d like your input. Read on…

The More Things Change, the More They (Hopefully) Stay the Same

Sep 21, 2008 in Meta

You may have noticed that it was impossible to comment here for a while. Then, if you follow very closely, you may have noticed that things looked a little funny here for a while. I’d like to say that was “growing pains” but really it was “middle-aged creaky pains.” The upshot is that this blog has been updated to Movable Type 4.21 and everything should be better than ever now. Hopefully not in the way that a 47-year-old guy buys a Boxster to distract himself from creaky knees that give him a big old 1” vertical leap at the gym basketball court. Read on…

Got Wood?

May 25, 2008 in Meta

Somehow, the five-year anniversary of this blog crept by me — Friday the 23rd was the big day. Post #1 was a cheap, unfunny Slashdot reference. Since then, 683 more posts have brought 878 comments, most of them smarter than the entry itself. Read on…

Days

Jan 23, 2007 in Meta, Writing Practice

I’ve been writing this thing for three and a half years now. I started blogging because everything I wrote sounded like a business memo, and that just wasn’t a good way to make date plans; now, I can write things that are occasionally amusing. And have long run-on sentences and snarky footnotes.¹ Yep, things are moving along. Read on…

Meet the New Look, Same as the Old Look

Sep 19, 2006 in Meta

Well, ok, it’s not the same, but, well, it sounded like a catchy headline. Anyway, welcome to my new look. It’s big, and it’s dark grey, and it’s got my moblog right at the top, and I love it. Read on…

Mini-Hiatus

Aug 20, 2006 in Meta

I know I haven’t updated in a while; I’ll be back in a bit with a new host and a new look for this blog. Hope to see you back… Read on…

The Importance of Keeping Busy

Jun 25, 2006 in Meta

Because two blogs isn’e enough for me, check out what I wrote at my friend’s great Web ‘zine. It’s all about my summer break and shit, yo!… Read on…

Dad's Blogging!

Mar 11, 2006 in Meta

In a sign that this whole thing is not just for the kids now, my dad now has a blog. A former academic and university administrator, he writes on the… Read on…

Sidebar Cleanup

Mar 11, 2006 in Meta

My blog sidebar was getting kind of messy, so I pruned it today. Buttons should lead to things that provide value, and, best of all, I went through all of… Read on…

How To Show Entries From Multiple Blogs on Your Archive Pages in Movable Type

Jan 15, 2006 in Meta

If you check out the \monthly and category archives below, you’ll notice that the formerly separate moblog, linkblog, and diary parts of this site share the same archive pages. A lot of blogs out there have just this kind of content, but store it completely seperately; if you’d like to have posts from your moblog, linkblog, and blog or diary, all on the same archive page, and are using Movable Type, you can do it by following the instructions below. Read on…

RSS Feed Broken

Dec 23, 2005 in Meta

Yes, I know my RSS feed is broken. No, I don’t know why. I’ll figure it out when I get home from Costa Rica. Darn it, this was supposed to… Read on…

New RSS Feeds

Aug 19, 2005 in Meta

If you’re an RSS fan, look to your right — I’m offering new, more complete feeds in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom. Thanks to regular expressions and Textile formatting,… Read on…

Changes Made! (Partially)

Aug 17, 2005 in Meta

If you visit this site often (all two of you), then you might have noticed the new archive formats below, and on the archive pages. This new format supports both… Read on…

Plugging Away

Aug 17, 2005 in Meta

Yes, the archives are broken. I’m working on it; everything will be much better in a day or so. I’m just plugging away, hacking on it, watching a DVD and… Read on…

Attention RSS, Aggregator, Syndicator Users

Aug 11, 2005 in Meta

Do you use a newsreader, an aggregator like Bloglines or My Yahoo!, or a syndicator like a Livejournal feed to read Juniorbird.com? I’d like to understand how to put together… Read on…

This Goes Out To Shorty, From One-Eye

Jul 24, 2005 in Meta

As part of the general ongoing improvement going on at this blog — also known as “excuses not to do any actual work” — I’ve modified things to support short… Read on…

Hey Baby, Wanna Take A Survey?

Jun 22, 2005 in Meta

Come on, you know you want to take my survey. Everyone’s doing it, it won’t hurt. It’ll be fun, you’ll have such a good time. Read on…

There's Changes Being Made

Mar 20, 2005 in Meta

You may have noticed the changes made to this site: the ads and the (return of the) links box on the right. Nothing like blowing a little vacation on the blog! Read on…

Commenting Works Again

Dec 12, 2004 in Meta

It should be possible for everyone to comment on my blog entries now. Yes, I’ve worked hard and have given all four of my readers their voice back. I could… Read on…

Partypoker And All Those Damn Comment Spammers Got Me Down

Nov 7, 2004 in Meta

If you look down at the bottom of the page you’ll see a new form for posting comments. That’s because, today, I spent three hours of my time trying to… Read on…

Cleverbird.com

Sep 4, 2004 in Meta

The very first domain name I bought was cleverbird.com. Back in ‘98 I was working on a sideline project with Alan, the guy I bought Junior from, to sell high-end… Read on…

Something Not Particularly Daring

Jun 24, 2004 in Meta

John Gruber wants to do something daring — he wants to make his Web site a self-supporting place in which he can write useful and interesting content that can’t be… Read on…

One Blog To Rule Them All

Jun 23, 2004 in Meta

With my business school application process over, using wadearmstrong.com as a second “marketing” blog no longer makes sense (not that it necessarily ever did). The wadearmstrong.com blog was, frankly, more… Read on…

Spam Spam Spam Wonderful Spam

Apr 23, 2004 in Meta

Some of you may have noticed the Phentermine spam in the comments. Don’t you love spam? Comment spam like this is designed to improve another site’s Google rank by linking… Read on…

Great, Now I've Got Two Blogs To Keep Current

Oct 19, 2003 in Meta

The problem with a personal site, whether diary, blog, photo album, whatever, is that it’s not always, as they say, “safe for work.” This comes particularly into light when you’d… Read on…

I Done Wrong

Oct 8, 2003 in Meta

What goes on a blog? It’s tempting to say “whatever I like.” But this is not true; the medium is a public one. Thus, content has to pass a kind… Read on…

About Me

Sep 23, 2003 in Meta

Who am I? I’m a 28-year-old boy from Baltimore living in Los Angeles and planning to go to business school in the fall of 2004 (when, incidentally, I will be 29). I’m interested in the Web and cooking and several other topics which don’t make nearly such interesting subjects for a blog. Read on…

About This Site

Sep 22, 2003 in Meta

Welcome to wadearmstrong.com! This site is an exercise in regular, fairly-professional writing and a resource for information I’ve learned or otherwise collected. Wadearmstrong.com will concentrate on four things: Read on…

Look, Ma, It's A Facelift!

Jul 12, 2003 in Meta

Now I’ve had this here blog/diary up for nearly two months now, and maybe it was getting a little embarrassing that I was still using the default template provided with… Read on…

A Mission Statement, Of Sorts

May 23, 2003 in Meta

OK, to start things out, here’s a list of objectives, in no particular order: Write. Just write. Write regularly Write non-technical stuff Write fiction, even Publish a few pictures Think… Read on…

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