In response Marc Farley and others pointing out that my blog doesn’t accept comments and doesn’t provide trackbacks, I have accelerated my search for an alternative blogging solution. Currently, I use TextPattern for my entire site. TextPattern is great as a full CMS solution — including allowing multiple people to contribute design and content in a controlled fashion — but for most of what I use deadinkvinyl.com, a simple blogging solution is sufficient. With trackbacks.

Consequently, I’m evaluating the migration of the blog portion of my site to blog.deadinkvinyl.com and using WordPress.com to host it. Unfortunately, WordPress.com doesn’t support Textile for editing articles — which I really like — but I’m willing to live with that trade off to have a solid, simple blogging platform. I have already migrated all of my articles from here and my old Blogger site and I am half way through the process of categorizing and tagging the old articles.

In the coming days, I will create an Apache Rewrite so that all incoming links to content on www.deadinkvinyl.com are correctly directed to the appropriate place in blog.deadinkvinyl.com. After that, I will update www.deadinkvinyl.com to be a simple information page.

Fraser Speirs offers a good counter-point to Arbited’s promotion of using online resources for storing information and data (such as email and calendars) online. On this one, I’m with Fraser.

I’ve been inspired to resume posting by Ross’s blog, Arbited. I’m going to steal his style of blogging about anything related computing even if I don’t have a thorough mastery of the material myself. It’s about knowledge exchange instead of education, I guess.