Chandra’s Page

As anyone who still has this site in an RSS reader is no doubt aware, I haven’t updated Chandra’s Page in a long, long time. Some of this is due to the usual laziness that afflicts most would-be bloggers. It’s tough to maintain interest in the activity if you haven’t made it part of your regular routine.

The other problem has been Typo, which is a fine piece of blog software, unless you’re running it on shared hosting. In which case, it sucks harder than vacuum through a puncture in a space capsule. So, I’ve settled on WordPress as the engine that drives this site. It’s pathetically easy to set up and use, doesn’t crash my Dreamhost account, and has enough plugins to keep me in nerd heaven for the foreseeable future.

Things will be a bit wonky here for a bit while I get all the images and graphical goodness back online, but then I hope to be more regular about posting. I’m sure both of you who read this will be ecstatic about my return.

Typo seems to have installed without any effort for a few other people I’ve asked, and instructions on a couple pages for installing it on Dreamhost, though seemingly simple, gave me no love.

After no small amount of bashing my face into the keyboard, I started from scratch with a fresh installation. Lo and behold, it worked, without complaint, first try.