Take Two

I finally got around to ditch the homebrew blogging software I’ve been using. I started writing one to “see if I could”, you know, the classic story. Unfortunately it got boring rather quickly and the thing got less attention than it needed. So, I was left with a half-assed solution. Not so anymore! My blog is now powered by WordPress, which has a lot of nice features, including making drafts and the ability to leave comments.

I’ve not played around with it for more than a week or so, but it seems pretty decent so far (despite being written in PHP). If nothing else, it’s introduced me to mod_rewrite, which is tremendously cool. Though I’ve known of it for a goood while, I’ve not actually used it before. It has also prompted me to take a closer look at Markdown as well. It seems very, very promising, and I suspect I’ll grow to like it very much.

At the moment this site is a unsightly mess of WordPress-powered blog and HTML::Mason for the rest. I’m planning to fix this, but I’ll have to take some time to figure out how to best fix it. Also, I doubt that the permlinks for old posts at the moment. This will also be fixed, as soon as I figure out how to make mod_rewrite transform argument names…