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I've been meaning to revamp this blog to a newer format for a while now, but I've been putting it off out of laziness cause it takes a considerable amount of effort to actually set stuff up the way I'm looking for, and my efforts so far haven't been too successful.

wordpress.com: has a bit more options when it comes to customizing, compared to blogspot, but the site's too slow for me and the lack of ability to modify the php files comprising the site is a turnoff.

wordpress.org: requires that I get my own webhost first, and I don't feel like paying for one quite yet...

jekyll: the concept is attractive (especially writing posts with markdown), but I'd literally have to write a layout from scratch, and static blog post generation time increases a lot when you have a lot of blog posts.

octopress: I messed around a bit with the default layout and the css/sass, but the same static generation time issue from jekyll applies. and when it comes down to it, I don't feel like putting that much effort into dealing with the under-the-hood details (or pretty much all those rake steps) when I want to blog.

and I don't feel like looking at other blog/cms systems, although the evernote generating blog idea looks attractive... if not fully developed yet.

and so of course I end up sticking with what I'm familiar with here. I will probably migrate to a web-hosted wordpress blog with the markdown plugin at some point in the future when I feel like it, but for now this will do. Although, if I do, I might try to set things up so that blog posts here update on a sub-blog there or something like that.

Part of my motivation in revamping is setting up another blog about tech/coding/work related stuff concurrently with this one, for posts like this one (and also for those random "aha!" moments I have while working), and markdown is pretty nice for delineating code sections. I suppose it's also the popular thing to do nowadays when you're in the tech industry, but eh.

...now that I think about it more, part of me wants to just start from scratch with jekyll again, just cause. aagh I can't decide. Maybe I'll just implement the work blog in jekyll and tie it to blogspot somehow?