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YABP (Yet Another Blog Platform)

Thursday, Nov. 20 2008 UTC

This year once again I am headed South and decided to move the blog back to johnj.com. I like Google’s blogger but it is a bit cumbersome to add content, especially when the satellite is not up and one is at the South Pole. Since I’ve put a bunch of work into redesigning my personal site this year, I took the step of expanding it to handle sequential posts.

Since I hate editing HTML (a close cousin of XML which I find somewhat irritating to work with), I designed the code so that I can simply create flat text files with a sort of minimal mark-up syntax and generate all the HTML I need from there.

The nice thing about the new scheme is that it freely flows from the sequential blog-world to the heirarchical navigation I already have set up. These can both exist on the same site; in face, every page in the site can be turned into a blog trivially. There is no database to set up, and incorporating pictures is trivial. So, we’ll see how I, and you, like it. Let me know!