I did not like Wordpress when I [...]]]> The SimplePHP Blog package I used for awhile was fine, as a start.  It let me get a blog up fast with little effort and let me make it look mostly how I wanted it to look.  The problem was, it didn’t work well.  So, now we are here.

I did not like Wordpress when I fist evaluated it.  It needed a database (I was lazy).  It had a million themes and picking one would take a lot of time (I was lazy).  Getting in and changing the look and feel of a theme looked like it was going to take some serious CSS work (I was lazy).  So, in general, I was lazy and took the easy way out.  SimplePHP was that – in an hour I had a site up that did what I wanted (mostly) and looked how I wanted (sort-of).

Only the article post mechanism is broken.  And the captcha mechanism is broken.  When a second friend wrote to complain that they could not post comments, I figured it was time to change.

A fast trip to SliceHost got me a server up.  Some debian-fu to get Apache2/PHP/MySQL installed.  Wordpress downloaded and installed.  Minor fu playing with mod_rewrite rules.  Result:  basic wordpress.

But, it was UGLY!

So I started playing with themes.  Gack.  Most of them are terrible. What few configuration variables they have are so minimal that you might as well not have a theme!  I do NOT want to go edit CSS.  Not for a blog!

Then, I found Atahualpa and was amazed that EVERYTHING is configurable.  Sigh.  OK, so be it.  Plug away, edit, change, find a new picture since the old one from the old blog seems to have magically disapeared.  Finally, it’s mostly there.  Enough I can file this post and not be embarrased if someone sees it.

I guess I have a real blog now.

Please bear with me as I get this site configured.  It’s not how I want it (yet).  But at least it should work right.