You again?
So, after 2 (or more?) attempts at running my own blog I'm just going to give up and use an online service. As you may (or may not) have noticed, my other blog has been down for a number of months, it died a horrible horrible death and this is how it happened. My previous blog was written in Python and used the Django web framework and requires a web server to host it, I opted for Apache and FastCGI (like the website suggests doing.) By some series of fortunate events this daisy chain of retardation actually worked! That it is to say, it worked until someone exploited FastCGI and broke everything. Needless to say, Colin and Tristan were troubled by this event and so they banished FastCGI to the fiery depths of the Netherealm, never to be heard from again.
So why use a service?
Well, I recently realised that as far as blogs go, I'm really just more interested in having one that works and I'm not prepared to run third-party blogging software (like anything involving PHP and MySQL) and set it up and so forth. While designing the thing was fun, writing the thing with Django was less so. I looked around at other blog services, and really didn't feel like I needed to spend any money to spread my lies around the Internet, so here I am.