It’s that time of the year again, kids. That’s right, domain renewal time! And what a happy time it is! CyberPixels’ support is once again feeling like it should be quality (how long will it last?), so I actually got everything dealt with in under eight hours, a new OwlManAtt.com renewal record!

And since I renewed the domain, I figured it was time to change things up a bit. Over the past few months, I’ve been growing malcontent with AJ-Fork, however nice it may have been (or is, because you won’t see this until I port everything from AJ-Fork into here, so at the time of writing, I’m still using it), but it’s a big freaking hack, for god’s sake.

I originally wanted to use Mambo to power OwlManAtt.com v4. I spent a few hours setting things up, then got incredibly pissed off at it and threw it away. Mambo may be nice for a whole CMS, but it’s blogging functionality is quite lacking.

So since Zotnix and Eurleif used WordPress, I decided to give it a whirl. It isn’t all that bad, really.

Here’s to another year of OwlManAtt.com!

Update: OwlManAtt.com is now no longer running AJ-Fork. About an hour ago, I converted the flatfiles into something that WordPress could use.

If anyone is interested in converting their AJ-Fork stuff into WordPress stuff, please see aj-convert. It uses WordPress’ formatting function file to clean a few things, one script I wrote, and one file with all of your blog posts/news/whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support bringing comments over, because I don’t care much about my comments. If anyone actually ever uses this, feel free to hack comments in, and I’d appreciate it if you e-mail me your updates.