Starting a new era... Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Time for a change. For years now, I have erratically posted on my Wordpress-based blog. For several reasons, it is time for a change.

That blog is hosted on university servers and as I transition away from being a student, it no longer makes sense to keep using it. It was also designed as a PhD diary, so it is probably the wrong place for new content. Secondly, I'm tired of maintaining a Wordpress blog. While Wordpress has improved a lot, it requires maintenance to keep it up to date with security patches. I don't real feel like trying to keep on top of this anymore; eventually I'll decommission the old blog; perhaps replacing it with just the static HTML.

So here I am giving Blogger a go. In many ways it is much more limited: I no longer have complete control over my blog, I'm limited to what Blogger gives me. I used to actually have my own Wordpress plugin for doing some text formatting and the like. Blogger has a "wysiwyg" editor, which I find quite abhorrent to use when trying to write about source code. So I'm going to need to come up with another way of making good looking entries that include source code (I'm a sucker for syntax highlighting). Hopefully more on that in a future post.

The first thing I'm having to do is a little bit of design to make this blog look a bit less like a default Blogger template. I'll probably never quite bother to change it all that much, but I can at least start by changing the colour-scheme to something a little more geeky... Dark background please!