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I'm also in the process of moving all my old delicous bookmarks here, though it might take some time. My future bookmarking will occur here not at delicious.

The content from my old blog went away when I hosed by Wordpress installation, but I'll be moving at least the more popular posts to this new blog soon.

So, I wrote a blogging platform over the last couple of weeks. I call it Blelo as in tumblelog. This is still a fairly early version, but it's mature enough that it's useful. My motivation for writing my own blogging platform is that, among the existing open source blogging platforms, Wordpress comes closest to meeting my needs, but I've grown increasingly frustrated by Wordpress's bloat and security issues.

I wrote Belo with minimalism in mind for both the feature set and the code. I does include tags, an RSS feed, and some magic post auto-formatting. The README included with the distribution file should get you started if you want to play with it. Blelo requires Apache, mod_rewrite, PHP 5, and MySQL 5.

Trivium: 20sep2008 Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will b…