The cobwebs seem alive… with the sound of music?

Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve done something with this place. The virtual cobwebs are almost alive in here. But so far, the move back here is going along smoothly, but there’s a lot of work that still needs to be done.

It’s ironic that, even though I can do an extreme exercise in elaborate site layouts, I choose a minimalist approach. This theme was called Hemmingway, and it really suits my simple and straightforward approach to weblogging right now.

The weblog software I’m using right now is Wordpress. I debated for some time whether I would continue using Moveable Type (which was the weblog script I’ve been using for a long time, and one that was compatible with the Friendster blogs’ Typepad service), or try to use new weblog script that was “supposed” to be better. But after a good deal of googling and research, I decided on going with the latter.

I think the biggest thing that won me over to Wordpress was my inclination to try something new. And the fact that Wordpress is actually free and open source didn’t hurt either. There was a huge community following for it, and I think I’d be more comfortable using an industry favorite with a ton of support and user-created goodies.

So here I am, playing around with this shiny new script, and I find it really enjoyable. There are some things I miss from MT, but the customizability and features of WP more than make up for it. And it actually has easier-to-edit themes than MT. And, yeah, it’s free…

I’m still trying to decide what else to incorporate here. Sometimes I get obsessed about starting a whole site from scratch that I try to put as much scripts and goodies I can find. But years of experience in this thing has taught me to just keep it simple. In the land of blogs, content is king.

This is gonna be so much fun, man…