Solution: Gigabyte does not officially support Linux, but fortunately it is possible to get an updated driver from Realtek which works perfectly.

Later I decided to scrap Django altogether and go with something simpler so I went with Jekyll, a static site generation tool. In using it I had to write my own templates and setup my own atom feed, each of which I did by using examples written by someone else who also uses the tool. Unfortunately I didn't blog that often and I found that each time I wanted to write I struggled with the emotional hurdle of remembering how to use Jekyll with its types and meta data, and how to deploy it to my server. I simply didn't want to remember and just ended up not writing.

Now, don't let me make you think Jekyll is a bad piece of software. It's written well and does exactly what it's intended to do. At the same time, it's just not for me. I no longer relish in creating websites as I once did. These days I write software that is far removed from the "web".

The past few days I've been playing with different blogging software, things that would install easily on a simple vps, would require little administration, and have an interface that enables me to just write and be done with it. After playing with Wordpress, Movable Type (5.12) and Melody (a Movable Type 4.x fork), I've decided to go with Movable Type. As much as I like Wordpress, I prefer to have static file generation as a first-class freature, not an optional plugin like WP-SuperCache. And that's the power of Movable Type: You can write and publish your site in a way that is wholly dynamic, but with the performance of static files. The additional win is that all the features I want just work, like feeds, drafts, previews, comments, et cetera. In other words, I don't have to figure out why my self-written blog software sucks; I just write.

So here's to a fresh start, brought to you by Movable Type.