Blog in beta

Hello friends, family and valued contacts!

I'm mid-way through a big change to my long-neglected blog, moving it to a new platform, with a new design (coming soon) and some of features that modern blogs should have. Because I'm not there yet, this is the blog in its 'beta' form. The URL for this beta version is blog2.frankieroberto.com/weblog, but that will change back to www.frankieroberto.com/weblog when I'm ready to make the switch (and all the beta URLs will be redirected) .

I've invited you here to get your feedback and help me get settled into this new blog home.

Some of the changes you might see here are:

• It's on Wordpress, rather than an ageing Movable Type installation. Any tips for how best to tweak Wordpress, or useful plugins gratefully received.
• Comments are re-enabled again (see reason for closing them). I'm using the default comment settings, with 'Akismet' enabled, so we'll have to see how that works out, spam wise.
• There's 'previous' and 'next' post links on the individual post pages. This should please Martin.
• Pingback is enabled. Pingback is the new trackback, I hear.
• The URLs no longer end in .xhtml (I couldn't get Moveable Type to work without file extensions before). Old URLs should redirect.
• More blogging (hopefully).

Please leave comments below if you've got any words of wisdom for me, or just want to say hello.

You can also start to subscribe to the RSS feed at http://feeds.frankieroberto.com/frankieroberto (the old one will eventually redirect).

I'll leave this post up, even after the blog comes out of beta, so any comments you leave below won't get lost to the ether.