It's been around for a while, but I'm feeling newly inspired to start posting again. I think it might just be beginning-of-semester excitement, because I like my classes and am feeling better about the whole program. Could also be that I've been doing other writing a bit more often as well.

Whatever it is, I'm here. I'm not making any commitments, but I've got some stuff that I've wanted to write about, so I'll give it a go.

If anyone's interested, this blog is running on Blosxom, a simple perl-based blogging system. I chose it because it was simple, but it took a bit of tweaking to get to work. I decided against Wordpress because (besides using it at work and getting sick of it) I don't need all those features that I'm never going to use. I like writing my posts in Ulysses (which holy crap is on Version 2 now and I need to see if I can upgrade!) because it's also simple. I hate using the rich text editor in Wordpress, but I also don't want to have to wrap stuff in html. Markdown takes care of formatting problems, and Ulysses lets me write in nice simple plain text, with all kinds of spiffy features.

But I was talking about Blosxom. It's really basic before adding plugins, but now that I've done that, it does what I need. I don't have comments set up, because I don't know that anyone will want to read my rambling and comment anyway.

We'll see how it goes.