I've been munging my blog some more. Right now it's only running under WSGI, and I've turned the tags and the tag cloud back on. There was some odd behavior earlier, so it may still be somewhat broken.

I'm fiddling with a WSGI instance of PyBlosxom. It seems faster than the CGI version.

I've changed the blog to using pyBlosxom's static rendering. Unfortunately, this meant getting rid of tags and the tag cloud. Perhaps I'll be able to add them back in later. Oh well.

I suppose in part it is because I simply reached the maximum level of frustration with my previous set of tools that I could stand, and have had to start looking at alternatives. (Unfortunately, this happened with a number of things all at once, so I'm looking for replacements for several of the tools I use constantly.)

In part it is simply because I need more practice writing. At one point in my life I did a lot of writing, and fairly easily. Of late, it's been harder and has happened much less. I need to get back into practice.

I'm slowly figuring out more about pyBlosxom, and will eventually end up with a reasonable set of blog tools. This evening I've been figuring out more about statically rendering my blog, which ought to overcome the noticable lags when accessing my blog. I haven't switched the actual blog over to static rendering yet, but I'm getting closer. So far the incremental part doesn't seem to be working.

I considered moving to awb, an AsciiDoc-based Website Builder, but I still find the reStructuredText markup slightly nicer. If only there was a good reStructuredText to DocBook path I'd have no qualms at all.

I've been increasing dissatisfied with the complex of software I use to create my web pages. Until I replace the whole thing with something better I'm going to be doing things on this new blog.

This, by the way, is the actual first post. Anything that is earlier is backdated to the date it actually happened, and will be (eventually) marked with the “timewarp” tag, and have a link to this post.