Its Alive
I have been planning and working on this new revision of my website off and on for about 6 months now. I decided to move to a new host and build everything in python on top of django. Its been a great learning experience. There are many features I want to add but I felt it was at a stage where it was good enough to transition over from the previous site.
I am now off of wordpress and created the blogging (hate that word) system I call Blink pretty much from scratch on django with the help of a lot of reading and trial and error. There are still some features I want to add such as full searches, but its mostly there.
The photography section is still running off of the flickr api. I had to re-do it with beej's flickr API instead of the version I was using before in PHP. I built a custom photo display system with the help of a few tricks from mootools and a lot of trial and error. I still need to streamline the javascript but it should work ok for now.
The music section is now fully automated off of all of the digital music that I play with the help of last.fm webservices. I plan on adding a lot more features to that area as time goes on. I just added the cover art over the weekend with the help of Amazon Webservices. Its not 100% accurate but generally pretty close. Part of it has to do with albums that are missing from last.fm or bad id3 tagging.
I'll write more in detail about these but I'm tired now and I need to finish my taxes.