I went ahead and added sidebar links to follow me on Twitter and to my Facebook page ( I may change this to a simple button soon instead of the resource hogging “official” badge, since all it does is link anyway )

Dealing with this has been an adventure.  All the locating, researching, and recoding has had me in obsessive mode all day long.

I’m not real happy with the slowdown on the blog.  I’m probably going to look into solutions to that.  One possibility is setting the main page to only show the most recent blog entry, and then everything else such as archives and “read more” functioning on the current 5 ( it used to be 10, which was horribly slow with the social plugins )

I have to think that there are cache tricks and such that I can use to eliminate the need for that, though.

At the very least, it kept me energized today.  I’m ready to get cracking on Sanctuary again, now.  Yesterday it was a struggle to do anything more than absently click through websites or channels.  I think I needed the push to do something, and this certainly provided it :p

EDIT:  Wow… Just did some browser checking, and that slowdown is almost exclusively in IE.  Firefox and Chrome both load the blog up at a fully acceptable speed.  At least I know that all the optimization needs to be done on the IE side.