Blogging is a form of expression (engine)

Well, I finally did it. Back in April, I talked about rebooting. At first, I thought I’d maybe start totally fresh. Then I realized that, “Hey, I have a lot of content here, I’d hate to lose it”.

So, I did some dancing with scripts and HTML and ported the site on over to Expression Engine. There’s been a lot of noise about WordPress and the GPL and such lately, but that wasn’t the motivator. Really, after working with it for awhile, the motivator was that it’s simply an amazing system. It’s not open source, GPL, or any sort of open license. However, it’s still very modifiable and extensible and on the whole, I’m pretty pleased so far.

There are still a few rough edges (such as comments – they can be left but the author stuff is messed up, I need to figure that out), and some spots that could use some more styling, but for now, I’m working in EE and really, pretty pleased. It feels so much easier to work in this system. I think it’ll much more easily facilitate me doing things like more RandomThink.net Labs experiments.

So, here’s to more! More blog posts, more experiments, more of me, hopefully.