What the heck happened to the site!?

Yeah, about that…

The important part is that the rest of the stuff that was here has been moved whole to my new personal site, JClarkOnline.com. The blog itself, Life in Idle, is staying here, and all of the old posts have been moved to archive.lifeinidle.com thanks to WordPress’ ability to import posts from an RSS feed.
Read on if you want a bit more about why I’ve done this.

Seems I’m getting into the habit of changing my blog around every few months. And not just redecorating, but completely redoing it with a different engine running the whole thing. I have a good reason though.

The last time I changed things, it was to move from a WordPress powered site to one built using RapidWeaver. I love RapidWeaver, I thought, and still think, that it’s a great way to run a personal site. However, it’s not great for blogs, at least not the way I do them. Long story short, due to the way RW works, you can’t blog from any computer but the one with RW installed. I solved this problem by using a blogging script called CuteNews.

CuteNews is pretty cool, but I eventually got tired of certain issues I was having with it. Those issues largely related to the way I had it integrated into the site, and I’m sure that if I were a programmer I could have fixed them, but I don’t have the expertise or the patience to figure it out at the moment. I decided I would look for a new blogging script, something simple, server based, and easy to work with.

Well, I didn’t find anything that worked the way CuteNews does that I liked any better, the truth is that CuteNews is a really good script, it’s just not for me. What I did find, though, was FLog. FLog is a simple script for managing an entire blog site, rather than just the blogging part of it as CuteNews does. The thing is, it’s really nice to work with.
It’s fast, simple, and does everything I need it to do and nothing more. That’s good, actually. I want this site to be super simple, I’ll do all the cool fancy stuff with my other sites (though I’ll probably play around with the CSS to snaz things up a bit). So this site has become just a blog and nothing more, while everyhting else has been moved to JClarkOnline.com, which is managed using RapidWeaver.

Hopefully this will work out and I won’t want to change things for a while. We’ll see.