Chris Erwin

My blog (I don’t think I like the word blog, but I think I’m stuck using it) hasn’t been updated very frequently as of late (read: ever). The old blog was coded by me, for me. In other words, it was crappy. I’d like to get better at php, and writing my own blog code is a good way to do this, but it leaves little time for actually writing blog entries. I’d find myself thinking “hey, I should write an article about [subject]!” But then I would think “Well, for a good article about [subject] I’d need to add such and such a feature to my blog code.” Inevitably, this would lead to me thinking “Screw it, Lost is on,” which would confuse me to no end, as I do not watch Lost.

So I figure, why reinvent the wheel? Why, I’ve heard good things about WordPress, and hey, they just released version 2.1! So here we are, in all of it’s fancy blogospheric Web 2.0 glory. With it I can leverage a paradigm shift, or something.

It’s actually a really slick content management system. I should have plenty of time to regale my audience of approximately zero readers with musings that nobody gives a crap about. If it works out well, I actually have an idea for a project that might be worthwhile, but more on that later (maybe).

So here we are, my first post in my new fancy WordPress blog. I’ll probably try to move some of my bigger articles over from the old code, but I have to figure out how that’s done. I bet it has to do with the upload button I see lower on this edit page. I guess I have to dump the mysql tables from the old code. Why am I thinking aloud?