How sad. But I guess it’s tradition now to do a ‘Hello World’ post. Welcome to my blog. Hopefully over time, it will become more than just a blog, but at this point I’m quite happy this is up and running.

Over the past few weeks I’ve tried to get php-Nuke up. Well that’s not happening. Netware, PHP 5, and PHP-Nuke apparently don’t like each other and seeing as I spend 8 hours a day at work dealing with computer issues, I’m really not in the mood to spend the rest of my time at home on them as well.

Today, I ditched the whole ‘website in a box’ idea and decided to just start with a simple ‘blog in a box’ system….thinking maybe it might be easier to find something that works. Yeah. TextPress looked really nice, and after a few hours of some minor PHP config issues, I got it to install, but then it would crash my Apache server anytime the page was actually visited.

So, the backup plan was WordPress. Wow. Literally five minutes from download, I had it up and running. Very nice.

Over this Thanksgiving weekend, I’ll see if I can’t play around with the templates a bit and get the site looking a bit more personalized. Maybe I’ll add a forum as well. We’ll see.