We happen to have the very first pilot episode of Blue’s Clues on tape, and the kids watched it today. It was obvious that they didn’t have the concept totally nailed down yet. Just for instance, instead of three clues there were 36. And at the end, instead of the Thinking Chair, Steve sat in the Big Puddle of Dog Spit. It was still good, though.

Over the weekend, I’ll be attempting to upgrade the Bloglomerate software to WordPress 2.0.1. This is a much bigger deal than you might think. Wish me luck.

The Gleeson Bloglomerate family of fine Gleeson blogs is now running sidebar ads, as part of the Pajamas Media syndicate. We’ll be moving a few elements around to even things out over the next day or so, but please let us know if the ads are causing any technical problems on your machine. Breaking the page, crashing the browser, that sort of thing. We are eager to avoid such difficulties.

And click on the ads every now and again too, if you’re of a mind. All advertisers are screened by the PJ people to adhere to standards of utmost probity.

The Gleeson Bloglomerate is now hosted by the fine hosts at DreamHost. If you are seeing this post, then you are seeing us on our spiffy new server. There was some downtime for the blog today (because I mistyped our MySQL password, duh) but that’s all fixed now. We are having some trouble configuring our e-mail clients, but we can at least read all of our mail via the Web interface. It could have gone much worse.

UPDATE: Okay, now I got my e-mail working, but my “Bloglomerator” is busted. I’ll work on that tonight.

Just to let y’all know, we will be moving the Gleeson Bloglomerate to a new hosting company over the next few days. Sometimes, weird things occur when a site changes hosts: lost posts, lost comments, lost trackbacks, lost e-mails, broken links, and other mishaps. We hope to avoid those problems, but cannot guarantee they won’t transpire. Wish us luck!

We thought is was high time the Bloglomerate joined the Blog Oklahoma web ring, so we did.