Category: About the site

  • Moving Back to wordpress

    I failed. but I had fun trying and learnt things, so I’m happy. For this blog I tried to use a static site generator, I thought it would make my blog simpler and allow me to post faster. I thought it would make my blog easier to host and easier to secure with no database…

  • Moving from wordpress to a static site generator

    A long time ago I created my own website and created each page by hand in Windows notepad. I probably even used some server side includes and I certainly used Apache as the web server. I don’t have copies of that site. In 2004 I moved to a blogging system called MovableType In 2012 I migrated from…

  • Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress

    Finally I’ve got around to updating my blog from MovableType to WordPress. If you’re looking at this today (and maybe for another month.. or year) you’ll see the template is still the default WordPress template. Eventually I’ll update it but for now at least the content from all the old posts is still visible. The…