Over a year ago I got fed up with b2evolution: the blogging software I had been using for some years. The main problem I had with it was that the tools for dealing with comment spam required constant manual intervention. So I switched to using a paid Typepad account and hosted my blog at blog.limul.us. I considered this a stop-gap solution until I wrote my own minimalistic PHP blogging software. It’s not like it’s particularly hard to write blogging software, but my attempts at writing it became overly-complicated projects. I’ve recently decided to give up on the idea and simply use WordPress.
For the record, I am not a fan of WordPress. Mostly becuase it is a product that seems to always be victim to some new security vulnerability. However I now feel much more capable of staying on top of security updates than I ever have before. This is in large part due to having adopted GTD. (It should also be noted that if I could easily install and maintain Gyrobase on my VPS, I would use Foundation’s blogging module in a heartbeat.)
This blog entry also marks the renaming of my blog to “Ad Hoc”, from the far-too-plain “Eric’s Blog”. I chose this name after skimming my old Programming Language Pragmatics textbook. Considering it’s a term I often find myself using, and could easily apply to my blog posts, I figured it would fit quite well.