As a part of one of my New Year's resolutions, I'm dusting off this old site, which has sat basically dormant since December 2003, and writing here once again. I'm not going to try to import the thousands of entries that were on this site when I shut it down back then. It would be pointless.

I basically took the old code from a previous version of this website, retooled it, and redeployed it as the new site. Sure, it's not exactly the same, but it's a similar look and feel. Frankly, for most personal sites like this single column probably works best anyway. Sure, if I had a sidebar I could add all sorts of widgets, but why do that? Do they even make widgets for blogs anymore? Do people even have blogs anymore, let alone personal websites? I went back recently and looked for several of the sites I used to read, and only a few seemed to still be around, and only one or two had been updated in the last year.

For those of you interested in technical stuff, this website is powered by Pyblosxom rather than any of the many modern database driven options. That's not to say Pyblosxom isn't modern (they just released v1.5) but it's to say it takes a different and somewhat old-school approach of using lots of flat files, rather than a database. It's simple, it's easy, I can edit everything in a text editor in a terminal from anywhere. It's absolutely beautiful in its simplicity.

So that's it, there isn't much else to say except...

Hello again.

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