Oh no! Not another online journal!

February 6, 2002

Yup. Well, the movie reviews and rants and such were fun, but sometimes there were things I wanted to put online that just didn’t warrant that kind of treatment or focus. Hence, this web log.

I looked at quite a few different packages. PHP-Nuke, phpweblog, greymatter… for one reason or another they just weren’t suitable. It’s nice that there’s so much effort going into open source programming, but creeping featureism seems to be an unfortunate side effect of this development model. Most of them were overkill for what I wanted: a way to automate saying things like “Hey, is George W. a fool or what?”

In the end, I’ve written my own program. It’s tiny, it doesn’t have many features, and it’s not particularly friendly. But it works, and I didn’t have to tear everything out of my existing site to do it.

Later on (like, tomorrow) I’ll be adding the archival functionality. All the journal entries are saved, of course, it’s just that it’s hidden from the front end at the moment. Later, I might even add feature which lets random people leave comments. Wouldn’t that be fun?

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