'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

JWN transformed

Welcome to the new edition of JWN! It has many great new features, as I'll explain below.

First news first, though. Yesterday, Lorna Quandt graduated from Charlottesville High School. So we've been having a great family get-together: Tarek came in from Austin, Leila and Greg from NYC, and Lorna's boyfriend Joe from Ossining, NY.

It has been incredibly wonderful having all my progeny and their s.o.'s around. Just a tad bittersweet, since Lorna is the last... My baby! All grown up now. Anyway I can write more about that later.

But having Tarek here has been of particular relevance to the JWN update story, since it was he who, since the turn of the year, (1) explained carefully to me what this thing called a "blog" is; (2) encouraged my early efforts to get one up and running, dispensing free technical advice along the way; and (3), most recently, helped me to move the whole of JWN over to a new blog-maintenance capability called Movable Type.

Which in my humble opinion works fabulously!

Look at all the great features you can now enjoy! You can go to the sidebar to the right and click on any item listed in the 'Recent Entries' -- or click on any marked date in the calendar, to see entries from that day. Try the 'Search' capability. It's really powerful-- makes my sad old attempt to keep up an Index look ultra-puny by comparison.

Plus, you can now post your own comments at the end of any of the JWN posts-- and indeed, keep quite a little discussion going about any of themwith other readers, if you want.

Soon to come, I hope, will be photos!! Plus I want to find a way to change the color of the items that are hyperlinks, since I think this one is sludgy and unclear. Plus we will maybe put all the past posts into Categories and then generate an Archive-by-category...

But hey! This Movable Type package has already proven itself really powerful and flexible. Since I'm still tweaking the templates some, do please click on the 'Comments' button below and send me your suggestions for how to make the blog better.

Also-- this is important!!! If you came to JWN through the URL: www.justworld.blogspot.com, or through any bookmark or other path that linked to that URL, then you need to know that I won't be sending JWN posts to that URL any longer. The URL that is the best one to use from here on is the following: www.justworldnews.org.

So please make a note of that, and change your bookmarks as necessary. Thanks!