I've been blog-slacking. Half-edited posts have been piling up here, so you can probably soon expect a bunch to come at once. In addition to sheer laziness, which accounts for most of the delay, I've been foot-dragging because I'm contemplating a switch from my hand-rolled blogging setup to Wordpress.
The primary reason I'm considering the switch is because I'm too lazy to implement a few basic features (e.g. trackbacks, pingbacks, rss). I've enjoyed tweaking my own PHP code, but I'd rather take all the basic functionality as a given and spend my efforts writing plug-ins for custom features. For instance, I've got a doozy of an idea for a change to the way recent posts are listed, and I'd rather implement that than fiddle with pingbacks.
I've looked at the various blogging apps out there, and Wordpress has the most appeal for me. I like that it uses PHP and MySQL, it strictly adheres to web standards, and it's licensed under the GPL.
aside:
I welcome your flames about how awful my choice of Wordpress is, and I'm willing to be persuaded I'm wrong by those in the know. My inbox awaits your wisdom.
end of aside
If all goes well, the switch shouldn't cause any links to break or any functionality to be lost. I may archive the existing posts in an “old blog” section if it's too bothersome to convert the database structure, but ideally you shouldn't notice that anything has changed except the appearance of the long-promised rss feed.
Oh, and the color. No doubt you've noticed the new color already, because you are observant and smart and a good dresser. I'm not necessarily sold on this new color: I may try out a few different ones. If you have a hue suggestion, fire away.
