It's official: quizzical quincunx is moving to its new home here at blog.evanstratford.com. Why the sudden shuffle?

• Incompatibilities between Blogger's draft editor (which I use) and its regular editor (which pops up anytime I follow an edit link from the blog page) butcher my formatting with unsettling regularity. I've had enough.
• Hosting this blog myself means I have complete control over design, blog post/comment data, and deployment. If the blog goes down, I have no one to blame except myself. If I want to add cool homebrew widgets or features (post clustering? user-based post targeting? easter-egg blink tags?) I need only hack something together in PHP; no more working around Blogger's platform.
• I've been meaning to try out WordPress for a while; this seemed like a perfect opportunity.

My overall impression of WordPress is mostly favourable. More details:

• Writing your own theme is a relatively painless process, thanks in part to the excellent documentation. I had the current (admittedly incomplete, but mostly functional) theme together in roughly 2.5 hours.
• Half the WordPress template tag hooks echo by default; the other half return rendered strings. Why? Is it that hard to agree on one? (Personally, I think they should all return strings - this makes it easier to process the text and add filler without turning the PHP code into a mess of <php? /*...*/ ?> tags.
• The Blogger importer imports tags as categories. Why? What's the difference? Should I care? This seems like an unnecessary source of confusion.
• TinyMCE is immeasurably superior to the Blogger editor, albeit somewhat slower.
• Some serious design effort has gone into the WordPress admin console. There's five metric whackloads of functionality, yet it still doesn't seem overly cluttered.

I'll leave the old blog site up for a while, but all new posts will go here - enjoy the ride, and keep posted!

...we're back to relative sanity here at Quizzical Quincunx, now that the new CSS has been plugged in. With that out of the way, I might delve into the widget content itself (free time pending, as always!)

Note to Blogger: editing HTML directly through your editor is a terrible experience. So terrible, in fact, that I resorted to saving a local copy and vim-Firebug double-teaming it. Make it easier to quickly see the results of my changes and start supporting things like, you know, the tab key. Ugh.

Note to everyone else (yes, all three of you): comments? thoughts? gripes? minor sticking points? Feedback is always appreciated.