Beta Blogger and me.

So, after much delay, I've upgraded to blogger beta. I was reluctant to do so for a few reasons. One reason was because I'm lazy and didn't want to have to manually re-enter all my categorized links from the old template. Another reason was the fact that, after looking at the new template layout, the links to my past film reviews in the sidebar would look long, ugly and stupid. The third reason was I'd have to relearn how to make expandable posts, which is something I have been entering (now old) code for in nearly every post I've been making for the past year.

I've thus far solved the first and third concern. The first problem was solved with getting off my ass (well, actually, remaining on my ass but in an upright position behind my laptop) and enduring the tedium involved in entering them in again. I've pared down the list a little bit, mostly because a lot of the blogs I'd listed were dead or have otherwise probably forgotten about little old Vodka-Yogurt. If your link is gone and you'd like to remind me that you're alive and still reading & writing, drop me a line at my gmail account (or post a comment if you're brazen enough) and it shall return.

As for the third concern, click and behold.

Is that fucking cool or what? Now I can have expandable posts which will not force you to bounce back and forth between my index and individual posts. That alone makes this upgrade worth it. Should you wish to integrate this feature into your own blog, you can check out this post at Hackosphere. I highly, highly recommend it.

As for the second concern, I think I'll be setting up index pages listing all of my movie reviews, some of my liquor reviews (which I think I might continue writing more of given the feedback), and maybe a general section featuring other commentaries that I've allowed to disappear into my general archive. I suppose I could set up tabs, but, seeing as I've got over fifty film reviews posted, I still think an alphabetical reference index may be worthwhile. It'll take awhile to compile an adequate list for all the posts and find a convenient way to implement them, but I've got a few days off work to utilize towards that end. In any event, this thing will be looking nicer and hopefully end up easier to navigate than before.