It's been 5 years since I wrote my last blogpost. Until today.

The past years my interest in blogging declined. Combined with the regular burden of Drupal security updates, I seriously considered to simply scrap everything and replace the website with a simple one-pager. Although a lot of my older blog-posts are not very useful (to say the least) or are very out of date, some of these bring memories of long gone times. Needles to say I didn't like the idea of deleting everything from these past 15 years.

Meanwhile I also have the feeling that social networks, Facebook in particular, have too much control over the content we create. This gave me the idea to start using this blog again. By writing content on my own blog, I can take control back and still easily post it to Facebook, Twitter and so on. A few days later Dries wrote a post about his very similar plans. Apparently this idea even has a name: The IndieWeb movement.

I decided …

Today I'm happy to launch the new version of my weblog. (Oh and also the rest of the website, although some content still needs to be updated.) This is version 3 of the weblog, not counting my very first weblog at blogger.com. Although it's only been 1.5 year since I switched from Nucleus CMS to Wordpress, I once again switched over to another CMS: Drupal. Not because I was unhappy with Wordpress (it's a really nice system), but Drupal gives me a lot more flexibility. Flexibility which I needed to implement some new ideas I had for this version of the weblog and my website in general.

I have always maintained a few different sites, running on a plethora of applications. I had my photo website (fotos.budts.be), which ran on ZenPhoto; I had lightyear.be with the activity stream, running on Gregarius with some self-hacked ruby code to write the final stream; Then I had my cv-site (budts.be/jeroen), which was mainly just static html …