So far I’m not liking Blosxom

So when I moved off of stic net, I thought- hey this’ll be a great time to move over to a linux or unix server. There was a lot of stuff I had to rewrite for asp for the old site- yeah, yeah, I hated iis too.

Anyway one of the things I tried on one of my shell accounts was pyBlosxom. I tried it mostly because Pridkett uses it, and well I like to copy people. It turns out that this box doesn’t have python installed, so I thought- okay, I’ll try blsxom out for the blog- since pyBlosxom was based off of it, it should be smooth sailing. Wrong.

Right out of the gate I’ve had a lot of criticism around the structure and the default templates. Even the plugins don’t work the way they should. And most importantly- there’s no tool like fixfiletime.py. There is a plugin available, but that just keeps a cached list of file comparisons. As the kidz say: omgwtf? (and don’t get me started on the fact that pyBlosxom validates out of the box)

So to make a long story short- if you can read this, great. If not and you’re getting a 404 on worldnet, that means the stupid ass calendar plugin cache broke again- which is great- take a look at the right for a highlighted day and see if it matches this story- chances are it won’t.

So how am I gonna fix this? I’m not, I’m going to bitch and moan. This is a ‘rant’ entry. The first one on the new site. Whoopdie Doo!