Brews you can use

After playing around with nanoblogger for about a year of blogging, I’m ready for some gratuitous change. Brews you can use is now served by WordPress, a somewhat more complicated package than nanoblogger (not that it takes much — nanoblogger is an elegant little shell script), but with more features. The killer feature, of course, is a more user-friendly interface than vi in a shell window. I was personally OK with the vi interface (hell, I set EDITOR=ed when I’m in the right mood), but Jess wanted something nicer for her knitting blog.

I think I’ve got everything set up so that the already-indexed archives from the old blog will still work (no dangling googles), as will existing RSS/atom feeds. And I still don’t grok mod_rewrite….

There’s about a 40% chance that this meta-blogging activity (and the smoother interface — I can deal with erm… “interesting” UIs, I didn’t say I liked them…) will lead to more frequent updates. In other words, see you next year!

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 11th, 2005 at 10:18 pm and is filed under Admin.