Presto-change-o! There’s a new blogging engine in town. I got sick of the hassle of upgrading Wordpress (as easy as it is…) and thought that perhaps if I did a little internal work on Bread & Soup that I’d be inspired to do some posting to it, although I don’t know what form that will take, and I make no promises. I still need to do a little editing of the older posts to deal with conversion issues, but they’re there.

The new engine, if you care, is called Octopress and so far it’s working pretty well. Unlike a traditional CMS like Wordpress, it’s not a fancy multi-featured application that sits on your server, but rather a process which runs on your local machine (or can) and generates static HTML files which then get synced to the server. I had to install Xcode, get an Apple developer account, install ruby, then install Octopress, and somehow it was still easier than installing a server-side applicaion and dealing with the rage-making permissions issues that inevitably ensue. Anyhow, let’s end the nerdery there. More later, possibly.