After lots of fiddling, groping, tweaking, screaming, vomiting, and suicidal tendencies, *revjim.net* is now running "WordPress":http://wordpress.org/.
It's a bittersweet victory for me. On one hand, I'm happy to, once again, have a blogging engine that allows me to get words onto a page with all of the control over it that I desire without standing in my way too much. On the other hand, WordPress is dead simple in design and implementation and, in this case, _simplicity breeds stupidity_. Some stupidity has found its way into the core, but most of it can be seen on the fringes in plugins. It took quite a bit of cursing and bashing to get it all in some fashion where I can stand to look at it.
My current theme isn't at all what I want but it was easy to obtain when using the Kubrick theme as a base. In time, I'll replace the entire theme with one of my own design.
"LiveJournal":http://livejournal.com/ users will be happy to know that I've implemented "OpenID":http://openid.net/. What this means is that by typing in your LiveJournal user name only ONE time and accepting the authorization from LiveJournal, you'll be able to comment quickly and easily without having to type in any information at all (other than your comment, of course).
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this development.
