“This is a test of the Emergency Blog System. The bloggers of your area in voluntary cooperation with the Federal, State and local blogging authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of a blogging emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you didn’t hear would have been followed by official information, news or instructions. This blog serves the readers of Vincent Navarino. This concludes this test of the Emergency Blog System.” Beeeeeppppp!!!

In case you haven’t noticed, and I took great pains so you didn’t, there’s a big change to this blog o’ mine. Take a sec, look around and see if you can spot anything that looks out of place. It’s OK, I’ll wait.

(starts to write thesis on decreasing attention span of internet users)
(proofreads thesis)
(gives thesis draft to friends)
(realize friends are stupid and get new friends)
(finishes thesis)
(cover old friends up with lye, prodigious amounts of dirt, 1″ layer of topsoil, 4lbs of grass seed and a small brass plaque that reads ‘Plot 27/50′)

Give up? *giggle* snort! tee hee!

My blog has been ported over from the hell that was Movable Type to b2evolution, a new up-and-comer in the world of blogging software solutions. Thanks to Ben Franske, boy genius and semi-retired pudding wrestler, my blog has been ported over to b2 and I’m happier than… than… uh… a person that’s slightly less happier than I am! :-) Just go with it.

This also signifies a huge step for me, as all my stuff is now on my site from this blog to the new community I’m building out of what used to be the old Labmistress boards I used to run, now called The Navarino Unincorporated City Hall. Even better, my entire site, both the blog (b2) and the board (phpbb) are running open-source software! I can’t believe it myself. If someone told me before this that I’d be running a place using just open-source solutions I’d tell them they were nuts… what a difference doing it makes, thanks to some good people and great advice!

So feel free and enjoy the blog as I tweak it around some (want to format the comment popup better) and please stop by the new message boards and become a part of the wonderful and exciting online community we’re starting… together from the ground up! Full speed ahead… zip zoom away! *trip* AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEeeeeeee *thud* /splat/ MEDIC! *gasp* eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE