And to celebrate I think I should have the new system in place so I can finally ditch WordPress. Once that’s done I am free to start changing the underlying schema, so that things can be a little more free-form around here.

Gone will be the rigid category system, to be replaced by simple tags. Gone will be the rigid separation between comments and posts… perhaps. Not quite sure about that one yet, but basically I like the idea of reducing the database to just a few tables, and the idea that some posts might organically lead to sub-threads which would be related and easily navigable. Also there will probably be a simpler layout with all the sidebar paraphernalia tucked out of the way a bit more.

The main feed now features my Gravatar icon too, to make it easier to spot my posts in an ever growing list of aggregated feeds.

What I’m basically envisaging for intepid is that it will become like a hybrid blog/forum/wiki kind of deal… A personal journal and knowledge base.

BTW This post was written quite comfortably on my iPod touch using a very basic edit form, and as much as possible I want to keep things simple like this, with no dashboards or special admin pages except where absolutely necessary.