Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

I know that most of the people who read what I say here are Livejournalers…but do any of you have any thoughts about other ‘blogging’ software? I’m considering setting up another blog covering a specific aspect of things I’m interested in, its inapproriate to be documented here among the useless trivia of my life.

So, anyone know anything about either software? and/or can you recommend somewhere to host it? I’ve got a domain already (dns supplied by easily, who are alright for cheap domains and could host too), it just needs to be directed to the new host.

I’d prefer to pay a (small) monthly or yearly charge for a reasonably well connected and managed virtual server than, say, host it on a corner of a machine that one of my friends has attached to the net (if I wanted that I could host it on the end of my DSL line).


Categories: Memories.

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  2. hirez

    Moveable Type and WordPress are much of a muchness. Making MT do what I wanted was an exercise in shouting and learning far more about CSS than I wanted. Gradwell and MT fail to get on fundamentally, which is a shame.

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  3. neilh

    I’ve no intention of hiding these things, indeed its actually more that I don’t want my daily mundanity getting mixed in with the focussed content of the other blog(s). They are appropriate for developing in their own right rather than just being a part of what I post here.

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  4. Anonymous

    Hi Neil,

    Happy November.

    I use blogger. Unoriginal, but I find it does all I need (which is not much admittedly).

    I can understand the interest in doing it yourself, but really, why bother? Dumping your thoughts and hacking with the internets are things that are better left separate. One or the other is likely suffer if you combine them. e.g. either spend weeks tinkering with the layout of your 1 post, or get fed up, and settle for a half broken system.

    anyway, this comment brought to you by: gnugos60.blogspot.com

    ;)

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    • neilh

      The interest in doing it myself is that one of the blogs I want to run is a development blog – so the intention would be to run a CVS or subversion server alongside the blog software, and perhaps (depending upon the project) a version of the software itself. None of the livejournals or bloggers do that sort of thing.

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