Weblogs Are Fun!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Stevarino.com is born again. Yay.
I would have posted this sooner but I had to go eat. If you’re interested dinner was Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, succotash, and a salad. There was no dessert offered.
But the website, out with it… I began to seriously consider starting a weblog about three weeks ago and began working on it about a week ago. This is the fourth edition of the weblog known as stevarino.com, my 7th weblog so far, and the second powered by .
My first weblog was Preschool Prodigy. I started it in early 2002 in an effort to teach myself some web programming and design. The PHP code was a catastrophe which I still cannot believe ran as smoothly as it appeared to, but I at least learned CSS and semantic HTML well enough. My idols back then were , , , and . They still are to some extent, and its refreshing to see they are doing just as well today. But just as they have in recent years, I can no longer focus so much time on weblogging.
I actually did not start with the intention of reinventing this site within the modern day WordPress Industrial Complex. The entire website was going to be designed around how I thought it should function and I had a to achieve my vision with. But after two weeks of banging my head against the desk and cursing at half-realized abstractions I decided that it didn’t really matter anymore. Hacker pride be damned.
When I started weblogging, WordPress didn’t exist, Blogger sucked, Movable Type charged a buttload, and LiveJournal was ugly. And while LiveJournal is still ugly, Blogger is now a Google property, MT is GPL’d, and WP rocks. Weblogging has matured so I guess there are other things for me to focus on now besides whose software cuddles with my data at night.
Anyway I plan to treat this weblog a bit different than my past attempts. Stay tuned.