Hello, this is my new blog

May 30, 2010 at 9:28 pm
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For a long time now I’ve been thinking about what to do to daniels.net.nz. I need a site to dump stuff to – I’m too much of a web nerd to not have a website. I thought hard about what it was: I started it in 2004, shortly after finishing first year at University. It came after a string of bad hosts, my blog posts from 2003/04 are gone into history now. Since then, I’ve changed what I blogged about, the web address, the style. I’ve also changed, I finished Uni, moved to Wellington, got a great job. The old blog just wasn’t what I wanted it to be.

So here we are, a giant reset switch.

This is my new blog. I know what you are thinking… what the hell have I done? It’s sparse and light, it’s a blog, not a major informational service. So I kept it simple. And here it is.

As an added bonus, I’ve thrown in Disqus comments too. It will track reactions on Twitter and let you comment from your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Not that I think you’ll need it, you guys are rather quiet (or I’m just not controversial enough).

Bear with me. This is just the beginning.

  • I like what you've done. Very clean. Lots of white space.

    I've been through a similar blog identity crisis, at first used to code my own sites (by hand! In Notepad!) then I moved on to Dreamweaver, then a couple of PHP CMSes before settling on Wordpress for a while. Then I got married, emigrated and had kids and found I very rarely had time to sit down and write anything anymore.

    So these days I have a Posterous account and post to that instead. All of the blog, none of the hassle.

    Oh and a slight whinge about Disqus - the text box resize handle that Chrome tries to put in doesn't work. It gets very messy.
  • Actually, now that stuff has actually been posted to it, I'm not getting what I intended (yes, I tested it!). There'll no doubt be some mods as time goes on.
  • Whoa, I hadn't noticed that before. Poor Chrome!

    I thought about Posterous and Tumblr, but I like having control over my presence. I probably wouldn't utilise it, but that's another story!

    I started coding my websites in an app called Arachnophilia. It's still around, but as a Java app as some protest. It helped me learn HTML 3 at the time (yes, I've been doing websites forever). I never got into using WYSIWYG editors, mostly because they were expensive, but also because I thought they looked ugly and weren't very WYSIWYG.

    I haven't gotten married or had kids yet... hooray!
  • Looks good :)

    (actually I just wanted an excuse to try out the fancy-looking comment system)
  • I know, it's rather nifty. It'll even go through Twitter and find any mentions of a post. All I had to do was install the plugin!
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