the Forty-Second Parallel

Well, it's time to get things moving again around here. After we moved our sites over to SliceHost back around the end of January, my MovableType installation went wonky. So, for the last month or so, every time I thought of something I wanted to post I would think "Doh! I've gotta get that working again."

Well, that went on for about a month until finally last weekend I sat down and plugged away at things every spare moment I had. And so, here we are. The entire site has been given a nice facelift - both on the front end and the back.

I'm most excited about the backend. Tired of wrestling with the limitations of WordPress, MovableType, et. al. and inspired by the sites of people like James Bennett and Jeff Croft, the entire site is now running on top of Django. I've been using Django a lot at work the past few months and it has been a joy - both to use and deploy (unlike Rails). James Bennett's various how-to's, tutorials, and code have been an invaluable resource.

Anyways, all that to say I'm back and looking forward to blogging again.