Ok, I must be getting old now. Old or jaded. I no longer feel a compulsion to be able to hack on my blog engine, and I’m allowing myself to switch over to not only a non-custom blog package, but even one that’s not written in a language I feel comfortable hacking around in. On top of that, I’m even going with one of the built-in templates. The horror.

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I just got a little tired of keeping Typo running on my home server. It’s grown so huge and bloated since it started that I actually feel a little guilty about how I used to tell people how great it was. I could switch over to its successor, Mephisto, but I want something that’s easy to run on my Dreamhost account rather than my home server since I’m going to be gone and don’t want things to fall apart in the mean time. I’ll let Dreamhost worry about keeping things going; it’s worth the slight loss of control.

There are still a few rough edges regarding the migration: I haven’t gotten comments moved over yet, and some of the posts are showing up in their original Textile formatting. (If links look like “this”:http://site.com then that’s why.) Should be able to fix that momentarily. Permalinks are also different now; don’t know how hard that will be to fix. Comments are moderated until I can set up the Akismet spam blocker. Bear with us as the dust settles.