Love & Hate

I've come to the conclusion that I hate all blogging software.  It all sucks.  None of it fits my specifications, but I'm too lazy/busy to write my own.  For now I'm settling with WordPress, but I'm not completely satisfied.  I was fairly okay with Movable Type for a while, but I got really frustrated with its admin interface.  It's really slow.  And I tried to set up dynamic page loading (lets face it, I'm not getting enough traffic here to take down my shared host), but then realized it wanted to use PHP for some ungodly reason even though the rest of the app is written in Perl.  (Yaay consistency!)

I'm hoping I'll be more satisfied with this WordPress nonsense, but I'm not optimistic.  (Well, as optimistic as one can be about a PHP app)

I wish there was a good blogging solution written in Python.  Then again, python support on shared hosts isn't all that great.  And likely more work than I'm willing to put forth.

As for the love part of this, OpenID gets my thumbs up.  I've been a fan since brad first posted about it way back when. I've never done much with it until now, though.  I get a free identity with my livejournal account, but I'm really not a fan of having my old whiney LJ entries be the face of my identity.  So I set up an account with myopenid.com, which seems pretty solid.  And I set up dknowles.org to be a delegate for the identity.  I'm pretty sure I could do the same thing with LJ serving my identity instead, and dknowles.org would show up in comment posts and what not; but I'm mostly over the LJ thing anyway.  I should probably just subscribe my few remaining friends that write there to my google reader.