Maybe it’ll catch on this time

I have tried starting a blog several times before, but I have never really been able to keep it up. Maybe this is the time. Or not. But I am trying a few new things. Previously, I tried the WordPress blog engine that came installed with my web hosting package. It was pretty limited in functionality. Of course, being the geek that I am, I thought it would be a good idea to code out my own XHTML, build my own database schema, write my own blog management interface, etc. Okay, that was dumb. So now I have installed the latest and greatest WordPress myself from the tarball. Now, I am not pulling out my hair about configuration and code I can’t modify, but I am not writing my own blog engine either. This should do nicely.