Pat Maddox, BDDMF

For the past several months I’d been using a webby-based home brew blogging sytem. I did that so I could easily compose and edit drafts locally in emacs. webby let me build a site from the source files and rsync it to the server to publish it.

Well, for the past several months, I haven’t actually written any blog posts :) I decided that I was not interested in running a blog on my own slice, or using a system where I ever have to look at the source code. Kind of strange coming from a programmer, but I’ve got a ton of stuff that I want/need to do, and fiddling with my blog system is not one of them. I just want to write some freaking blog posts.

So I went out in search of a good hosted blogging service. Turns out they all suck. wordpress.com was pretty good but it doesn’t let you embed javascript, something I know I will want to do at times. Wordpress seems like a decent blogging platform over all though, so I signed up for shared hosting at steadcom.com and installed the Wordpress blog you see here.

None of my old posts show up in the new system – I had no interest in trying to import the data, get the links right, supporting images, etc. The good news is, all that content is still available at archive.patmaddox.com. I’ve set up automatic redirects, so if you have any links pointing to my old blog posts they should continue to work.

As far as editing locally and publishing goes, my pal David Chelimsky turned me on to MarsEdit. Exactly what I wanted, although I didn’t know it. Thanks David!