After more than a year away, I'm getting back to blogging.

I had quit in early 2007 because I was frustrated with how much effort was required to add new content to my site and because I was busy with a music project (more on that later). Since then, however, I learned Django and wrote a new blog engine specifically for my book reviews. Now, to add a new book, I just type the ISBN into a box, type my comments in Markdown syntax, and hit "publish".

I've also made an effort to update my web-coding. Everything is now compliant to the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard, and I'm mostly using (validating) CSS instead of tables.

Over the couple of weeks, I'll be filling in the backlog of fifty-odd books that I read during my extended absence, and I'll try much harder to keep up to date with new ones as I finish them.