After a few years, I've decided to resurrect the old domain name again. I lost it for a few years in there as I was using DynDns to manage the name and never received the expiry notice (note to self: do not have the ownership for a domain go to an email at that domain). A squatter picked it up for a couple of years, and I didn't bother to get it back.
A few months ago I put in a 'backorder' with GoDaddy, and as soon as it expired, they pounced on it. Cheesy commercials and horrible UI not withstanding, they do a good job on the technical end of things. I've heard people complaining about how they are getting expensive, but for $20, they got it done.
I also wanted to setup a blog. Rather than trying to actually run a server and maintain it, I'm letting the folks at Amazon and Github do that for me. I'm using [Jekyll][jekyll] as the blog engine (starting with a very frill-free theme), and I'm blogging like a hacker, writting posts in MacVim, storing the content in a [github repo][ghthebigjc] and deploying using s3cmd to S3.
So far so good. Thinking about what I want to do for comments - might just drop a Facebook widget in there. People are mentioning disquis as the normal way to add comments to jekyll, but I don't really see the appeal.
Anyways - back on the horse. 'til next time.
