A New Beginning
If I’ve done my job well, you should hardly even notice, but things have changed.
There’s always been things I wanted to do. Having comments appear on the same page as a single post for example, but doing so would have required custom development and the fact is that I’m far too lazy to do it. I just want to write, not deal with building the pen and paper that’s going to allow me to do that. So I’ve got myself a webhost, an installation of Wordpress, and here we are. If nothing else, then I’m also finally using the proper domain for the site.
All my existing posts are here, and all existing permalinks should still work (yes, I had to hack Wordpress to make that possible, which goes against my idea of not building things myself, but sacrifices always have to be made). There are some images broken, especially those that were previously uploaded via the Blogbear image system. I’ll work out what to do with them eventually, but there’s not really anything that important in there anyway.
Now that everything is here and looks like it did before (or close enough), I can start building on top of it, adding the things I want to add, following the ideas I want to follow. I have a feeling this may involve some custom PHP, but I can swallow my Perl pride and write a few lines just to make everything fall into place. And that’s the point, a few lines, rather than a few thousand lines, and I can finally have a blog I can be proud of.
There’s a good chance I may also steal a bunch of ideas from Graham, but we’ll see.
