Hello world! Again. Keeping with the tradition of writing more blog engines than blog posts, I now have _two_ new blog engines. I began writing a static blog site generated from source markup using shell scripts, but then I discovered "jekyl":http://jekyllrb.com/ and "hyde":https://github.com/hyde/hyde. I decided to go with jekyll. All of my old blog links should still work, but now it is easier for me to write new blog posts (go vim!).

If you hadn't noticed, the background on this site changes every time you load the page. While I've had the background collection for some time -- since high school actually -- I had forgotten that some of the backgrounds actually came from one of my friends, and I did not attribute this fact. I would like to fix this, especially since he made the cool images himself in gimp and has graciously let me continue using them. Take a look at his "high school site":http://www.tjhsst.edu/~jboning/, where he has some more cool artwork in a changing background. You'll also notice that his loading mechanism is more efficient than mine.

I haven't updated this blog in awhile, and this is partly due to the fact that I disliked the blog engine I was using, Serendipity. It's not that Serendipity is bad, but rather that it simply tries to do too much. It is too flexible, at least for what I needed it for, but yet some things that I consider core features did not work properly. The biggest issue I had was combining markup and code syntax highlighting (geshi). In addition, once I had written a post and it looked good in the preview interface, the published version always differed in some way.

Hello and welcome to my blog.