BP's Weblog

So, I finally got around to moving from my old web host, who had become, well, a little bit slow and inflexible. Now, I've moved my whole website over to my new host, which I'm pretty psyched about.

Anyway, part of what finally pushed me over was the old version of Perl installed at the old site, and not-very-user-fixable. Why do I care about Perl? Because their install was missing the Digest::MD5 support, which enables me to use Markdown. If you haven't heard of Markdown yet, try the live demo, Markdown: Dingus. You'll see how compelling it is once you've written a little bit of text in it.

We'll see, but a lot of my posts from now on will probably be written in Markdown. It's flexible enough for most blog-writing style content, and, yet, the same text is still easily cut-and-pastable to e-mail. This'll make having recently purchased ecto a little bit painful, but I'll probably still use it, if in Markdown mode. Maybe I'll beg for a Markdown-compatible preview.

Anyway, if you're reading this post, your at the new host. Hopefully the transition goes smoothly. The old PHP-Nuke based site which I'd kept up for a while at the old host is currently missing... I'll probably bring it back soon, but I've just been too lazy.