Well, for a while now I’ve been unhappy with the general state of wordpress. Its a decent software if what you want is something that holds your hand and is large enough to require a small town’s dam  for electricity to run. Please note that was the obligatory small town joke.

The thing that has just tipped the scale finally, as this annoyance has been growing of late is the seemingly broken rss feeds. The oddest thing is that it appears to produce valid xml. However, I am left with a puddle of mess that is something like, “http://tsunam.org An Environmentalist Blog Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en,” that. One of the alternatives I’ll be looking into is going to be a program that Diego(flameeyes) recommended. For those interested its a Ruby on Rails blogger called typo. It is actually one of the few open source apps that seem to have a back story about the name. The author wrote it while waiting for a client at a coffee shop, and he’d written the time of the meeting down incorrectly. So its aptly named typo.

Typo can be found here. It should be interesting as I’ve been curious about Ruby on Rails for a while and this is just a lucky opportunity to try out a application that makes use of it. For those using WP etc and want to convert over they have a conversion script that works with 1.5. I will try it out on the 2.0.2 install I have and see how it goes. If it works out well I might even add yet another blogging software to the tree.

Also as is my nature I think I’ll create some new banners for some new feel’s as well. So look forward to a bit more variety in the colors of the site (hopefully).