The Uncharted Backwaters of the Unfashionable

Allow me to explain

I think I know how you feel. I mean, I was here, and you were there, and everything was great for so long. We had our ups and downs, sure, but who doesn’t? Everything was going great.

And then, Poof!, I was gone. Just like that. Oh, sure, there were a few little blip of life now and then; an animated “under construction” .gif, some awful Wordpress incarnation. But it just wasn’t the same, and now you want answers.

Well, here it goes. Cliffs Notes version: Sometime in about April 2006, Chase Davis , who, while a goofball, has always had a pretty good head for these things, started talking about a little thing called Django. And it sounded cool. Really, it did. But I was still wrapping my head around things like how best to devour a Chipotle burrito, and just didn’t have time to look into it. Then, a few months back, Matt Waite rolled out this fantastic creation called PolitiFact. I was floored. And a few weeks later (For those keeping track, that’s at least 1.5 years behind the rest of the pack), I downloaded it for myself and started putzing around on my computer at work.

I realized this tool had some pretty enormous potential. And after asking, realized it’s something I’d have to play with on my own time. So I bought some space on a shared server from A Small Orange, and here we are.

I know what you’re thinking. “Right, Matt. That’s all well and good. So where’s all the cool Django stuff? Huh? Where is it?”

All I can day is, you’re right. There’s some work to be done. Installing it on Windows, which I’ve been using since puberty, was a heck of a lot easier than doing it on a shared UNIX host via Putty — two things I’m not even sure I can spell, much less use. But there’s been a lot going on, and I want to get it out there. So, probably for a long while, this is how it’s going to be. Yes, it’s another WordPress incarnation, hopefully not as awful.

I hope we can patch things up.

Sincerely,

Matt

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