Activity here should get a little more regular from now on.
I started this site (or rather, its predecessor) back in 1998, but it was really just the standard “My Home Page” type of thing with the added novelty of “please buy my book“. I gradually added a few music- and guitar-related things, but then started adding more “journal-like” posts a couple of years back.
Running a traditional type of website doesn’t really suit blogging, and I’ve been manually updating the site until now, uploading each post individually. At the end of last year, I decided it was time to remove the pointless obstacles and automate that stuff, so that’s what you see here.
I considered a few options… Blogger or LiveJournal are the obvious choices for convenience, but I didn’t want to run a weblog on another site and then have to either embed the stuff here or rely on people following links. Of the self-hosted blog software, Movable Type seems to be the most highly considered, but I downloaded it, read the installation instructions and then spent an hour cowering behind the settee.
In the end, I settled on Noah Grey’s Greymatter for reasons of simplicity and convenience. There’s no scary fiddling with PHP and MySQL, so I can just drop it onto the server, customise the templates and we’re ready to go…