Ah, web hosting. I used to maintain my own servers when I was learning how to set up and administrate Linux, but the novelty wore off some time ago. With all the security advisories, backup chores, and network management to keep track of, it was no longer fun. It’s a pain in the ass. This is a review of what […]

I spent a good few hours figuring out how to make WordPress look more like MovableType. I ended up duplicating some of the structure (the content and right divs, in particular) and converted a lot of font-size CSS to use the named sizes. This seems to allow things to scale a bit nicer. I’m pretty sure there’s horrible, horrible things […]

Very quickly, my impressions so far… I like WordPress’s admin interface slightly better, though there are some odd gaps (deleting a draft, for example, requires posting it then deleting it unless I’m missing something) The default CSS looks terrible on my computer…it looks like ass The template system doesn’t require rebuilds like MT does. Instead, you’re coding in PHP, and […]

NOTE: This post got ‘piratized’ by the text filter I used for Talk Like A Pirate Day and got saved back into the database. This seems kind of dumb. Is it a config issue? Anyway… I’m evaluatin’ both Movable Type and WordPress, I’ll warrant ye. Movable Type has a nice interface, but th’ static page generation workflow bugs me a […]

The new web site is launched, though things are still obviously under construction. This will be a good opportunity to post regular tidbits about what I’m working on for a small group of acquaintances, while working on my writing.