After nearly 5 years of using Wordpress to power this blog, I've finally switched to an alternative - Pelican, a Python powered static site generator.

Why the switch? Maintaining a Wordpress site is annoying in the long term. Upgrades are needed on a regular basis for security patches, which is to …

It's taken over a year for me to finally get my blog up and running, I registered the domain back in April 2007 but I've only recently managed to get the urge to finish it. Many thanks to Joni for helping me finish the design off.

Some of you may …