Transition
Posted Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:19:29 GMT to Posted in Life, Geek Tags migration, wordpress
So I decided to move from my old Livejournal to Wordpress.
Why? I feel limited by LJ’s options, I want the ability to script my own content as necessary. I want better options for visual presentation. I want more control. Wordpress wasn’t actually my first choice. Since I have been doing a bunch of Ruby programming as of late, I really wanted to give Typo, the Ruby on Rails blog software, a go. However, I also need a somewhat stable place to keep this thing, and torch is probably a teensy bit more stable than some of the other systems I have access to. As it doesn’t have Ruby or the Rails framework, PHP and Wordpress it was. (Since there are tools to convert straight from Wordpress to Typo, switching is still an easy option in the future).
The other reason is that I am becoming more focused and mature. No more of those drunken rants. No more angsty posts. No more barely understandable rambling. As I am changing, so is this blog.
Of course, this apparently messed up Planet CS when I started putting in backdated entries. Which is slightly odd since I would expect the aggregator to follow the PubDate tag correctly. Maybe it is just a caching thing and will fix itself in the next iteration.
Outgrowing LiveJournal is like learning to drive, it takes some people longer than others.
-J
It’s not so much that hosting on your server is bad, so much as hosting on your server would mean a move in September elsewhere and then back again. I was actually refering more to the development machines I work on, one of which recently got hosed, and the other which I WANT to hose, cause the ‘stable’ packages are more out of date than Debian’s.