I’ve finally got fed up with the poor performance of the site and my machine, and have ditched the database blogging software. I’m most of the way through gamma[*] testing my own XML/PHP based software, and the date related problem that has held me up since the middle of January turn out to be a mis-reading of a PHP command (it wanted US date format, which conflicted with my idea of how it should work). Things ought to perk up a bit over the next week or so, with the new gallery nearing completion and a bandwidth module coming into effect for the large .mp3 downloads.

[*] It’s already been alpha and beta tested…