I finally got around to getting hosting for my domain. I went with nearlyfreespeech.net, which so far has completely lived up to their almost-unbelievable claims. I’ve been understandably busy playing with all of the cool stuff I now have access to.

I flirted with both Movable Type and Wordpress (I will not even consider anything Slash-inspired, <shudder>), but I don’t have any major gripes with Blogger right now, and they are the easiest service to move from, should I want to in the future. Laziness played a large part as well, I wasn’t about to try to convert my one Blogger template into multiple templates for every possible type of page.

Instead, I devoted the effort I would have spent on template-crafting to PHP and Magpie. It’s been a while since I worked with PHP, and I had forgotten how fun it is. I’d also forgotten how little I actually know about PHP. But Magpie is an absolute dream to work with. The documentation is copious, if a little scattered (hint: google is your friend when working with Magpie), and I was able to use it to do several things I’ve been wanting to do for a while.

Click around a little bit, and you’ll notice a lot of things that work cooler than they used to. Post pages and archive pages, especially. The linkblog has been seperated from the rest of the content again, and is now entirely del.icio.us driven. In general, though, everthing has been rewritten from the ground up, but with an eye towards it all looking more or less the same. As always, gripes from pepole with wierd browser/platform combinations I’m not able to test for are welcomed and encouraged.