Up until the beginning of this year, Hates The Internet had been plugging along quite merrily with various incarnations of my home-brewed CMS under the hood. After I left the freelancer life and rejoined the 9-5 world, I hadn’t felt much like dicking with it and it sat around rotting for the better part of a year.
Towards the end of last year, things were slow at the office so the boss gave us a couple weeks off around Christmas. I used this time to drink, but also managed to switch the site over to Wordpress. As I fought and tinkered with some of the not-quite-so-blog-ish stuff I wanted to be able to do, I found myself staring at a mountain of code and realized that I could’ve been done in 20 minutes using Drupal, CCK and Views. I also didn’t like how I’d chosen an out-of-the-box free theme. It was nice looking and I tinkered with it here and there, but I still felt like a shoemaker with no shoes.
I know that in some parts of the internet, there are near-constant flamewars between people who use Wordpress and people who use Drupal. Neither seem to like anything the other has to offer, but I switched for a different reason: Drupal was the decision I should’ve made in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, WP is still a damned good solution and in my professional life I have no problems recommending one or the other as a platform because, really, they’re two different tools with two entirely different goals.
My buddy Kevin over at the Monster Farm cooked up a theme for me and as I’ve been tinkering with it I’m finding out that it’s going to work exactly the way I want. That, coupled with the fact Drupal works much in the same way HTWhy was heading, I finally have the platform I need to subject the internet to the weird, eclectic shit I have running through my head.
For the few people who seem to enjoy my more retro content, I managed to keep everything from my previous sites so now there's no excuse for not being able to find telnetable BBSes on which to play TradeWars. I've also already put pen to paper (so to speak) on a few things so keep an eye out for more mostly useless shit popping up coupled with the slightly pessimistic, mildly offensive content I'd been shirking.
There are a few rough edges, dead ends and things which might not work properly or at all but this it the internet and I'm a firm believer in the 80% rule.
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