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Movable Type

[ rakaur on Sat May 06 at 10:58 PM // category: software, technology, web ]

Movable Type seems pretty sweet. The only reason I’ve never tried it before is because I don’t do Perl, and I wasn’t about to taint my personal server with it. Since my new host has it anyway, I figure I might as well give it a shot. It’s so hardcore better than WordPress could ever dream of being. I think I’m going to try to work this into my site as it is now. That way, I can keep my design and I won’t have to rewrite the biggest thing (the blog), and the little subsections are five minutes each. Shouldn’t be all that hard.

Now, what WOULD be hard, is figuring out how to get everything out of my old blog and into Movable Type’s DB. I can’t live without my past posts, but I have no clue on Perl or Movable Type. Kind of sucks.

Anyone?

-- rakaur // 2006.05.06 @ 10:58 PM

Web Tools

[ rakaur on Sat May 06 at 11:51 AM // category: life, music, technology, web ]

So, the new Tool CD is pretty sucky. I was hoping it’d be an evolution of Lateralus, because while I like Tool’s older stuff I like the latter (Aenima, Lateralus) stuff better. I’d have to say Aenima was my favorite album. Unfortunately, 10,000 days sounds like an in-between of Undertow and Aenima. So, rather than going forward from Lateralus, it’s as if the went to Undertow, took two steps forward to Aenima, and a step back with 10,000 days. It’s far more slam-bang than thought-out melodies. I mean, the songs are still really fucking long but it’s not interesting and they’re not exploring some weird melody like they do in Lateralus, so there’s no reason for them to be eleven minutes when it’s the same two guitar chords over and over. It’s probably because they don’t care anymore and just wanted an income boost so they quickly threw an album together. I was pretty disappointed. This only makes me sad because the last APC album really sucked too. The only song I can tolerate on it is Passive. Maybe I’m just not in a Tooly mood recently, I dunno.

So, there’s the issue of my website, and what I should do with it. I have new hosting, but my current site won’t work there because of mod_python. I have a few options, but I’m not sure what to do. I need people to post comments if anyone reads this still and vote here on what I should do. I could:

I’d absolutely love to do the last one, but I just don’t have the time, interest, or patience. Rails seems really neat, but I don’t know it, and I don’t have the desire to learn it. WordPress and Movable Type are both pretty blah though.

Any ideas?

-- rakaur // 2006.05.06 @ 11:51 AM

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