escape to insanity

You may have noticed, but the site is pretty much completely different now. There’s a reason.

I’ve finally given up and switched to a pre-made, commercially available (well, open-source) blogging software package. Wordpress recently released version 2.5, the blogosphere went crazy, and I gave in. For almost three years (almost exactly three years, actually) I got by with my own custom-built, hand-written CMS, but… it just wasn’t enough.

The CMS I’d written myself had gradually evolved over time and had eventually gotten to be relatively respectable, all things considered. I had even been working on a new version, based very extensively off a test installation of Wordpress, that was going to blow the previous version of my own system out of the water. However… the injection of a real-life job and a girlfriend shrunk my spare time considerably, and every time I sat down to work on it I just couldn’t keep up the interest long enough to get anything real done.

So… here we are, Wordpress-ed out and everything. I’ll be playing with this extensively over the next few days or weeks, getting the hang of how everything works together. Eventually I’ll ditch the pre-made theme and write my own theme, but for now… enjoy. There may still be a few kinks to work out. We’ll see how it goes.