FreeThoughtBlogs and the Zingularity survived our first day of life, barely. If not for some heads up action on the part of Ed Brayton and our tech folks who were elbow deep in the site’s guts from dawn to dusk, we might have been stillborn.

Besides, we all decided it was PZ Myers’ fault.

We writers and commenters (Thank you!) are still getting used to the site. I’ve been playing aorund with basic features like HTML tags and video embedding. Images and other items will be added to the Zingularity sidebars — it’s not going to stay bare! — and in the body of posts in the near future as workflows are developed for various kinks and quirks that inevitably pop up in ventures like this. Going forward, my understanding is there’s still some work ahead which may affect availability and possibly the layout of this site over the next few days.

Despite all that this page recorded around a thousand hits yesterday! I don’t know how so many quasi beta testers managed to get the page to load considering it was in and out all day. But that was encouraging and I’m grateful. Per usual, please excuse the sawdust and lack of parking.