Changing the blogging gear
I’ve recently been working on merging my two blogs together into one. One of them I host myself, the other is with Tumblr. One has stagnated quite severely with the last update April 1st, 2008, the other only seems to get periodic and occasionally small updates.
Twitter has played a large part in the lack of updates to both of these sites. Through Twitter I can post short thoughts, URLs to items of potential interest and frequently have a more live dialogue with a group of people. I also don’t plug either of my blogs to any degree really, I provide links to them, but I don’t go telling people to read them.
So what, you may ask, is the point in merging them at all? Well I still want to blog, but the point of blogging has changed. I now see blogging as a platform from which I can propose my thoughts or detail my current exploits when they merit it. My recent head injury was one such item mainly because I was asked for further details on it and it wouldn’t fit the Twitter 140 character limit. The post on MySQL Replication was asked for by a friend of mine, while it was simplistic it helped me iron the process down in my head as well.
So as the game is changing a bit I’ve been through all of my old blog posts, correcting spelling mistakes as well as changing some grammar here and there. Its a bit vain I know, but some of it read really poorly, I also went and wrapped nearly all of the code blogs so they’d be parsed by Pygments. I had some fun with that, especially with RDiscount which I am using to parse the Markdown post files. I managed to sort out those problems though and now I’m just down to sorting out some niggly little bits before I close down the other two and redirect them to one location.
