In an effort to keep my site updated more often, I’m starting to move Kodiak’s Korner posts to WordPress. Up to now I had been using/developing my own weblog software, but my time is so limited (or I’m so lazy, depending on how you wnat to look at it) that I hadn’t been able to build in all of the functionality that I wanted. I’ve heard good things about WordPress and decided that it was time to stop reinventing the wheel.

So far things are looking pretty good. I can do just about everything that I wanted to do with my homegrown system and WordPress has some features built into it that might come in handy, like PingBacks and TrackBacks.

I’m not entirely giving up on my own system, however. I figure I’ll spend some time getting my feet wet with WordPad and maybe later go back to my own system, taking the nice features with me. I envision my system being more than just a weblog—with built in photo galleries and an intricate way to link all of the separate elements together automatically.

I've had this site up and running for nearly two years. In that time I've made fewer than 20 posts. Part of that is because I am so busy with so many things that its hard to find time to post, but up until now it has been a royal PITA to make postings as well. You see, up until tonight, there was no easy way for me to post. When I designed the site, my goal was to get a site up and running, which I did. I didn't, however, write the back end posting manager until tonight. Up until now I was using phpMyAdmin to manually insert new posts–but not anymore. Now maybe, just maybe, I'll start posting more often.

In addition to the backend processor, I've also added an RSS feed to the site. Now you can use your favorite RSS reader or web portal to keep an eye on my site. Enjoy!