In lieu of a song, an explanation.

I built this site with my own two hands and the PHP online manual. And when I say that, I don’t just mean the frontend here—I mean the backend that allows me to make posts as well. You don’t see a Blogger logo or a link to Movable Type anywhere because this blog doesn’t run on either of those systems, or any of the other weblog systems out there. This was partially so I could learn how to put a blogging system together, and partially because none of those services really has all the little features I wanted for an MP3 blog. And of course, there’s the sense of pride and ownership, though I can’t really brag about my homebrew blogging system to anyone. They’d look at me funny and go “huh?” if they didn’t go “why even bother?”

Well, the year-long experiment is over. I’m in the process of moving this whole site over to Wordpress, a blogging system built in PHP that’s far more robust and complete than my junkheap setup. This means a couple of things, like comments and a more flexible category system (you know those icons to the side? yeah, you’ll be able to sort by music style, hopefully). It also means there’s going to be a bit of a mess while I get it all together, and no posts until it’s done.

Don’t worry, that’ll only be a couple of days at most. Hopefully this will be the only missed post in the unofficial post-every-three-days schedule. Until then, I invite you to take a look at the small linklist to the left (which will also be getting bigger once Wordpress is in). If none of the above paragraphs made any sense to you, here’s the gist: I’ll be back shortly.