Staticfree Blog

I have a new home. Well, I've had it for awhile, but I'm actually living in it recently. Thanks to the nocturnal habits of my new cuddly friend, Brigitte, I've been spending more nights than I care to admit hanging out on the various couches of Java's.

In fact, with Brigitte comes another group of people to add to my collection: goth/metal John, Shelley, and Leighton. All are permanent residents of Java's and tend to be clad in black and metal pricklies. More often than not, a subset of them will be hanging out in Java's either hiding behind a glowing lap-warmer or curled up in a ball in a corner, rejuvenating.

I've shyly been flirting with MovableType as a possible replacement for my hand-coded blog engine. As much as I like the concepts behind my engine, there are aspects of the implementation that I don't have finished or don't desire to finish. Parsing user comments for HTML, for one, is something I'd rather not have to code. In addition, the constant re-parsing of the XML is slow (yes, I'll change it so it generates static pages soon enough) and prone to corruption with a malicious text editor.

My younger sibling, David, already has his blog up using the MT engine I installed. It's a good piece of software, but unfortunately not open source. I may leave philosophy behind on this one though, as it's still free to use (for non-commercial use) and modify, just not free to distribute modifications. The bling may overcome the licensing.