Chyrping a Symphony

WordPress = (Spam Chernobyl)+(Rube Goldberg engineering). Why, just this evening it ate 50+ of my draft posts (a whole Moleskine notebook of ideas) after malware exploited security gaps to turn my blog into a zombie spybot that was eventually blackballed by smarter websites fleeing in terror. Shove it you say? Don't mind if I do.

So happily then hath the spring chicken hatched a little early this year. Chyrp is this spry 1MB martlet that walks all over the other blogging pterodactyls without ever touching the ground. For software that is all of 8 days old, it took a ridiculously elegant total of 10 minutes to install on this webserver, not just configure but master the user and administrative settings, add a few bonus modules, and finally compose this first post.

It is clean, efficient, and so thoughtfully designed that to use it is thoughtless. Rather like OS 8.5.1 before Apple went all rococo crazy.

I'm so pleased I'll probably create a new aesthetic theme as a thank-you to the author.

January 4th, 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: WordPress, Chyrp, Hello World