Ogwaros Iwenâl

I’ve uploaded the theme I’ve been working on the past couple days.  I admit - it’s kind of incomplete.  I’ll probably tweak it in the near future, but for now it’s “good enough” and “complete enough.”

I’m also fairly certain it’s fairly unusable in IE6 and I’m not in a huge rush to test or fix that.  IE6 doesn’t do fixed position elements.  But I will get to it eventually.  Probably.

Feedback appreciated.

So, after 4 years of using and maintaining my site, I nuked it and replaced it with a Wordpress blog. Why?

1. Most of the content of the site (such as it was) was contained in the blog. The front page, which was supposed to be a place for longer articles, fell into disuse years ago, many articles left incomplete. So it makes sense to just do an all-out blog.
2. While my handwritten version of the site worked fine (I particularly liked the “labeling” system I cobbled together), it could never be as fully featured as Wordpress. Additionally, over the years I’ve added little hacks - such as the lame “I am a human” bot protection combo box - the code has fallen into a state of disrepair, which leads me to…
3. As I started a third from-the-ground-up rewrite of the site, I realized that it was overkill. I am no longer interested in maintaining code to do the same blogging functionality that everyone else does. Why reinvent the wheel again and again, just to be able to jot down some thoughts on to the internets? It was mostly just a point of pride that I maintained it myself for so long. Life is too short, and I have more worthwhile projects to keep up with.

So here is the new version of the site. I may port the old posts into Wordpress, but it seems unlikely - there wasn’t much there worth keeping. I do need to replace the ugly-ass default theme - which I will probably write myself from scratch (assuming I can think of a worthwhile design).

Will this mean more frequent updates? We’ll see…

using System;

namespace Net.BrianUpton
{
    static class Www
    {
        static void Resurrect()
        {
            System.Console.Out.WriteLine("Hello cruel world");
        }
    }
}