I’ve been talk­ing about it for ages, and now I’ve finally gone and done it — moved this blog to Word­Press, that is.

I’m now run­ning on a HostingFuse.com account, which is insanely good value and has both CF and PHP enabled. I was able to import all my posts from my old RSS feed, although I wasn’t able to auto­mate the com­ments. I copied a few across man­u­ally and if I get bored I may con­vert some of the more inter­est­ing dis­cus­sions… but that’s not a high pri­or­ity. With a bit of CF trick­ery I think I’ve pre­served all the permalinks.

Now, I’ll pre-empt the inevitable ques­tions: why did I choose Word­Press over a CF-based blog­ging engine? Essen­tially, I’m run­ning a few Word­Press blogs and a few WordPress-driven web sites and I can’t rave about it highly enough: it leaves other blog­ging solu­tions for dead. My two highest-priority fea­tures are cov­ered — standards-compliant, seman­tic code that makes skin­ning easy, and perma­links that are both search-engine-friendly and human-being-friendly. It has a kick-arse admin inter­face, about a bil­lion plu­g­ins already avail­able, and a great exten­si­bil­ity layer on the off-chance you want some­thing that hasn’t already been done. I just don’t think any of the CF blog­ging solu­tions can com­pete, and I’ve tried out a few.

So take a look around and let me know what you think. And if you see any­thing odd or not work­ing prop­erly, please drop me a line and let me know — kay.smoljak@gmail.com.