Twisted Spinster

I need to upgrade my WordPress install and also figure out a way to keep fake blogs (you know, the ones that want you to buy their World of Warcrap* junk or start in newd* photography) from entering pretend comments and trackbacks in my moderation queue. It’s not that I get a lot of these things, it’s just that when I see that little “comment in moderation” message I get all excited, only to find out it’s something posted to a four-month old entry and it leads to a fake blog.

Anyway, it’s December! December. De… cemmm… berrrr. De. Cem. Ber.

Nope, that doesn’t make it any more exciting or interesting.

I’m trying to get into the Christmas spirit this time. Even though one of my last friends in this area moved back to her parents’ house in Ohio recently and she hasn’t written me yet and I don’t have her address, and my other friend is going to visit her sister in Ft. Lauderdale for the holidays, so it’s gonna be a lone Christmas this year. Not that I usually mind such things, but I do so love free cookies. Anyway, I’ve been hunting around the WordPress theme sites for a Christmas theme, because I can’t seem to get into the groove and make my own. I’ve just lost the touch, as well as the password to my now-obsolete Photoshop install (it’s version 5 — I think they’re up to version 12 or something), and I just don’t feel like wrestling with the Gimp. I do have Paint.net and I’ve been fiddling with that.

I also have to plan next year’s blog. (For those of you who are new to my weird ways, I always end my blog on December 31st and open a new blog. It’s my way of keeping the blog to paper-diary standards, and my way of bucking the trend, and also my way of irritating all my readers, who have to change their links and re-register on my new site. Maybe I’ll be nice and pre-register you — if I do decide to go that route I’ll let you know and I’ll put up a post to collect requests.) Anyway, I can’t decide: simply make a new folder on Victory Soap called “2009”? Or buy a new domain name? They’re cheap at Godaddy, though I really should watch my pennies. And should I use WordPress again? I think I will — Everyone seems to have had it with Movable Type’s increasingly cumbersome and arcane versions, and Blogspot is… limited. Typepad costs money, and I don’t see that they’ve got anything I need that is worth paying for. Textpattern has an attractive admin screen, but it doesn’t seem to do anything better than WordPress.

Anyway, that’s what’s been on my mind, besides applying for jobs.

Update: I forgot to add — I’m looking for a WordPress Christmas theme that isn’t too hokey looking. The 3-D ‘toon Santa look seems to be in this year for some reason, as is the color red. I found one Christmas theme that makes your monitor look like someone was murdered on it, that’s how much red is the main color. That’s… a little too much. Also am I the only person in creation who isn’t so enamored of RSS feeds that they have to have a huge, orange 3-D logo for it? It’s really annoying.

*Words misspelled in the no-doubt-futile hope of fooling spambots.