Thursday, February 1, 2007

Blogger: the Switch

As you may have noticed, the blog is looking a little different today. Previously, I was hosting a typo blog on my VPS account, which was working out perfectly well enough, but it brought up a few issues: every time I went to go publish an article I would think about how typo didn't really work the same way I did.

This problem is pervasive with me. There's likely always something I should be doing at the moment, but I get it in my head that it's not exactly the way I'd like it so I go off to write my own program to do X—I really need to cut that out.

So I decided rather than try to rewrite my own blog engine, or hack on something to get it into shape, I could better spend my time actually writing articles. We'll see how this works out. It's rather nice that blogspot allows you to use your own domain name as well, which was one of the last sticking points.

We'll see how the little experiment goes. Sure it's going to kill me to write out these posts in the web form for a bit, but I'm sure I'll figure out the api quickly. I've really crippled myself with vim. I can't even type anymore without it.

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