The Fool on the Hill: Blog IV

I've been blogging moderately systematically since 2004. My first blog was an exercise in 'eating my own dogfood'; I used PRES, a (rather nice) content management system I wrote in 1997 for Alasdair Morgan MP's website. However, two decades ago, web technology was changing rapidly, and by 2011 it got to the point where PRES was no longer worth the effort required to keep it up to date (and I was no longer well enough to cope with running my own infrastructure).

So I switched to Google's Blogger platform. In those days, Google still had the motto don't be evil; sadly, since then, they've dropped the first word from it.

I made the decision a year ago to eat my own dogfood again, and switched to Smeagol, a little wiki engine I wrote ten years ago which is actually quite good and I'm quite proud of; but I've been having problems keeping it running, and you don't need anything that heavyweight to run a blog.

So this is Blog IV, and it's running on Cryogen. It isn't my own dogfood. It is (currently) running on my own infrastructure, but it doesn't need to be, and it may eventually get moved to infrastructure managed by someone else.

In creating the third (Smeagol) iteration of my blog, I tried to integrate all the essays I'd posted to the first two; in creating this one, I've tried to integrate all those posted to the first three. Consequently, there are over three hundred essays on various topics here. A lot of the pictures which should illustrate these essays have not yet linked correctly; that's something I hope to fix over the next few weeks.

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