Ars Technica’s report on WordPress 2.9.

I’ve upgraded this blog to 2.9, and the improvements are very slick. Expect more picture posts in the future as the new media library handling is extremely nice.

The auto-embedding of linked videos is deliciously simple as well:

Wow, WPtouch is seriously nice. Two clicks from the WordPress admin interface and my blog has a very slick iPod Touch/iPhone theme. Seriously awesome.

So it turns out that WordPress has gotten pretty awesome. An iPod Touch app, slick backend interface, still a great collection of plugins, easy peasy posting…how can I resist?

Jekyll was great: plaintext posts, liquid layouts, smart design, and I had a cool setup where a git push would regenerate the site. BUT writing a new post involved: being at a computer with git or ssh, manually creating a file in the proper directory with the proper filename, manually adding the yaml header with the post metadata, and managing the whole commit, push deal to update the site. Geeky? Definitely. Easy, fast? Not really. Fun? Yes, until it wasn’t.

Sure I could’ve scripted away the headaches, but then I had to do some experimentation for a post in a UNC library blog (WordPress) and saw the latest admin design for the first time and was just excessively pleased. So here I am, jumping blog platforms again (for what, the sixth, seventh time?).

This time I’m *not* bringing along the old content. Instead I have created a blogging archive to house my old posts. So far I only have the very recent (everything that was in jekyll) and the very old (1998-2000) in the archive. Where’s 2001-2006? I really have no idea. I think I was on livejournal at one point. I ran an iBlog but have no idea where those files area. I created a blogging interface to walawiki but seem to have misplaced that as well. When and if I track any of that down, to the archive it will go. For now, just welcome me back to blogging.