So I’ve decided to move this blog away from wordpress.com and use a domain we’ve had sitting around for a while not doing very much. Benjie has convinced me that I want to use Octopress as my blog publisher, which is quite exciting as it means I can go back to just writing posts in a text editor instead of Wordpress’ funky WYSIWYG editor.

Wordpress was nice to use five years ago but:

• its editor has become too bloated, and I have a personal dislike of drag & drop and on-hover actions and other flicky, animated things. It’s really not needed in most places.
• I hate that the data is all stored in a single database and that posts are put together dynamically. Fine for little blogs like this, but blogs that serve to a large audience are likely to get slow. Plus, for a small blog, there’s no need to have a database when a series of some markdown files will do.
• The control is back in my hands! Hurruh!

For some tips on how to move from Wordpress to Octopress, see here: http://www.benjiegillam.com/2011/09/from-wordpress-to-octopress/