my blog is hosted on a server at home, using 100% home brewed software. i mostly did it as an exercise in scripting, because i’d been poking around with perl but didn’t know enough to really do much, and i needed a project. it’s worked out really well, but it’s not very flexible. for instance, i’ve wanted to keep an additional blog to do my journalling and reflections on my bible studies, but i’d really have to overhaul all the software. i installed movable type last week and am poking around with it, but it will take some time, since i need to hack up a script to output all my files into movable type format (not a big deal, but i don’t have the couple hours to put into it) and i also need to explore how to write some templates so that my blog doesn’t look horrendous. why should i switch to movable type? because one of the strongest assets anyone has is work that has already been done. i don’t want to re-invent the wheel, and after tinkering with mt, it looks like it will be really good for my purposes. welp, gotta run.
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